Barbara Hammer Movies

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone. Winner of...

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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

A hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.

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

The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists...

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

Place Mattes explores the space between reaching and touching. Animation and optical printing are used to create travelling mattes for places,...

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

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

color, silent, 8mm film

In Stone Circles, Hammer really leaves ‘nation’ as well as ‘era’ and creates a film poem on the prehistoric stone cultures of...

Three short films. I: The Wet Dream-Questions of seduction, viewer/viewed and personal stories are collaged in this heavily postproduced account of a...

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...

‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side...

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,...

Film by Barbara Hammer.

"Available Space is a film made for performance on a 360 degree rotary projection table. A woman breaks through confining architectural space, the...

A lesbian/feminist aesthetic proposing the connection between touch and sight to be the basis for a new cinema. The film explores the tactile child...