Barbara Hammer Movies

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

Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit...

1970, 25:27 min, color, silent, 8mm film on video.

Barbara Hammer's first and only multi-channel video installation, that tackles deeply personal subjects of her life.

Hammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of political resistance, was especially fascinating to me....

B&W and color; silent.

Barbara Hammer's first film.

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from...

In “Vital Signs” (1991), Barbara Hammer demonstratively transforms the horror of death into its opposite. She tenderly cares for a human...

A short documentary about the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which took place on Sunday, October 14th 1979.

Lesbian Whale animates early notebooks drawings made by Barbara Hammer between 1969 and 1971, with a voiceover commentary by friends and peers. The...

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

A whirlwind tour of paternal institutions: fatherhood, Lacanian psychoanalysis and bondage.

transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased...

We, as human beings on a small globe, united by evolutionary structure and biological DNA have a chance to come together through the experience of...

Welcome To This House, a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop, is about life in the shadows, and the anxiety of...

In California a young woman artist/filmmaker is led by an older female artist through the small pine forests of Mendocino and the hot desert sands of...

It shows a family where the son makes a wish to switch sizes with the father so that he can be the boss for a change. The father doesn't like this at...