Barbara Hammer Movies

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

On October 11, 2001, in Times Square, New York City, an ad hoc group of artists named Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War silently demonstrated for peace...

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...

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

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

Regarding this film and Cleansed: "These are two of the first films Hammer ever made and two of the last films she made while married to a man. Never...

“Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It” (1998) is a found porn flick: a threesome. Hammer excises the male part, retaining the two...

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

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...

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

Barbara Hammer (then married and known as Barbara Ward) stakes a claim to immortality.

"The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers...

“Shot in the Peruvian convent of Santa Catalina, AREQUIPA analogizes the building blocks of film (frames, color and black and white stocks,...

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...

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...

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

A wry comedy on the disagreeable aspects of menstruation where women act out their own dramas on a California hillside, in a supermarket, in a...

"Behind my desire to 'activate' the audience is a distaste for sutured, hegemonic cinema. By this, I mean a cinema dominated by both narrative and...

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