Barbara Hammer Movies

color, silent, 8mm film

"I picked up Stan and Jane Brakhage at the airport and drove them to San Francisco State College where Stan spoke about his films to the student...

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

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

Early Barbara Hammer film shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

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

Film by Barbara Hammer.

An experimental film with lesbian themes

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

In Tourist, Barbara Hammer depicts a trip to Europe: the flow of images is manipulated with a syncopated rhythm, to alter the perception of places...

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

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

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

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

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

“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...

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...

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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