Barbara Hammer Movies

  • 2009
    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

    52009HD

    The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with imag...

    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
  • 2010
    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

    4.72010HD

    Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing politic...

    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
  • 1974
    Dyketactics

    Dyketactics

    Dyketactics

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    Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minut...

    Dyketactics
  • 1978
    Double Strength

    Double Strength

    Double Strength

    5.31978HD

    Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended tr...

    Double Strength
  • 2016
    Film Hawk

    Film Hawk

    Film Hawk

    4.92016HD

    What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in common? A secret weapon known as Bob Hawk. As a vet...

    Film Hawk
  • 2001
    My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

    My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

    My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

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

    My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
  • 2007
    Diving Women of Jeju-do

    Diving Women of Jeju-do

    Diving Women of Jeju-do

    02007HD

    Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of years, women dive without breathing apparatus, to th...

    Diving Women of Jeju-do
  • 1998
    Women of Vision

    Women of Vision

    Women of Vision

    11998HD

    Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the...

    Women of Vision
  • 2010
    Generations

    Generations

    Generations

    02010HD

    Generations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old, h...

    Generations
  • 2003
    Resisting Paradise

    Resisting Paradise

    Resisting Paradise

    02003HD

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

    Resisting Paradise
  • 2012
    Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand

    Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand

    Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand

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    Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
  • 1975
    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    5.51975HD

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

    Superdyke Meets Madame X
  • 2018
    Evidentiary Bodies

    Evidentiary Bodies

    Evidentiary Bodies

    02018HD

    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 emp...

    Evidentiary Bodies
  • 2018
    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    5.62018HD

    From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the mo...

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
  • 1973
    “X”

    “X”

    “X”

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

    “X”
  • 1976
    Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles

    Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles

    Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles

    01976HD

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

    Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
  • 1995
    Tender Fictions

    Tender Fictions

    Tender Fictions

    4.91995HD

    Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of performances...

    Tender Fictions
  • 2019
    A Month of Single Frames

    A Month of Single Frames

    A Month of Single Frames

    6.82019HD

    In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in Cape...

    A Month of Single Frames
  • 1992
    Nitrate Kisses

    Nitrate Kisses

    Nitrate Kisses

    5.21992HD

    Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema, Ham...

    Nitrate Kisses
  • 2019
    Queer Genius

    Queer Genius

    Queer Genius

    02019HD

    Queer Genius is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creative fields as they confront fame, failure...

    Queer Genius