Barbara Hammer Movies

A montage of film clips and stills calling all lesbians to come out and celebrate who they are. In a trilogy of experimental documentaries, director...

Using the sixth century B.C. lyricist's poetry, a group of women unwrap the papyrus gauze of the lesbian goddess and bring her to life. Made by...

A dramatic romantic comedy narrative featuring a pre-menopausal woman who tires to join the Hot Flashes.

1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

A minute-long, partly animated colour video that is a humorous plea for good sex, safely prophylactic though it may be.

color, silent, 8mm film

Film by Barbara Hammer.

Out in South Africa, a documentary about a country in the state of transition; specifically of lesbians and gays, black and white, Indian and Asian,...

An autumnal celebration of colorful fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles and tree goddess rites. Shot on witch's land in Northern...

A child, two youths, a mother and three crones spin spirals, joining rituals of birth, death and rebirth. Filmed in Mendocino, California, where the...

This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for...

“Both NEW YORK LOFT and DOLL HOUSE convey a strong sense of resourcefulness, this ‘making something’ out of interiors, specifically...

In Tourist, Barbara Hammer depicts a trip to Europe: the flow of images is manipulated with a syncopated rhythm, to alter the perception of places...

A celebration and collage of lesbians, including footage of the Women's International Day march in SF and joyous dancing from the last night of the...

One-point perspective visual path across the US beginning inside a linear accelerator or atom-smashing device and traveling to such high-energy...

Combining perhaps the only footage from the first Women’s International Day march in San Francisco and rare footage of the second National...

A series of cameo portraits of the filmmaker's friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature.

Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."

The Peruvian Galapagos Islands feature in Hammer’s film Endangered, where Blue-footed Boobies, seals and iguanas are equated with the filmmaker...