Barbara Hammer Movies
- 2009
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor52009HD
The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with imag...
- 2010
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution4.72010HD
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing politic...
- 1974
Dyketactics
Dyketactics5.31974HD
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...
- 1978
Double Strength
Double Strength5.31978HD
Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended tr...
- 2016
Film Hawk
Film Hawk4.92016HD
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...
- 2001
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities12001HD
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...
- 2007
Diving Women of Jeju-do
Diving Women of Jeju-do02007HD
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...
- 1998
Women of Vision
Women of Vision11998HD
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...
- 2010
Generations
Generations02010HD
Generations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old, h...
- 2003
Resisting Paradise
Resisting Paradise02003HD
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...
- 2012
Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
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- 1975
Superdyke Meets Madame X
Superdyke Meets Madame X5.51975HD
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...
- 2018
Evidentiary Bodies
Evidentiary Bodies02018HD
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...
- 2018
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor5.62018HD
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the mo...
- 1973
“X”
“X”21973HD
A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from...
- 1976
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles01976HD
Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."
- 1995
Tender Fictions
Tender Fictions4.91995HD
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...
- 2019
A Month of Single Frames
A Month of Single Frames6.82019HD
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...
- 1992
Nitrate Kisses
Nitrate Kisses5.21992HD
Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema, Ham...
- 2019
Queer Genius
Queer Genius02019HD
Queer Genius is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creative fields as they confront fame, failure...