Barbara Hammer Movies

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments...

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...

color, silent, 8mm film

Animation of photos and paper cut outs from a hike at Machu Pichu in Peru.

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

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...

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

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

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 film investigating the nature of spectator perception in an unfamiliar environment. Manipulating the movement of the film direction on the screen...

"A 70-year-old lesbian feminist, seeing little change in the society after years of work, sends out her 40-year-old self on a journey taking her...

Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 4:08 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

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

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

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

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...

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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...

1969, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 7:34 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP