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Barbara Hammer was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She was a visual artist working primarily in film and video. She made over 80 moving image works in a career that spanned 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema.
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01 January 1987
NO NO NOOKY TV posits sexuality to be a social construct in a "sex-text" of satiric graphic representation of "dirty pictures.
01 January 1985
"Barbara Hammer's Optic Nerve is a powerful personal reflection on family and aging. Hammer employs filmed footage which, through optical printing and editing, is layered and manipulated to create a compelling meditation on her visit to her grandmother in a nursing home.
16 October 1981
A short documentary about the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which took place on Sunday, October 14th 1979.
01 January 1984
"Rapid montage shows a plethora of objects all arranged in, or with reference to, the central prop of a dollhouse.
01 January 1968
Barbara Hammer (then married and known as Barbara Ward) stakes a claim to immortality.
01 January 1975
"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 body.
01 January 1983
"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 documentary traditions, cinema that hypnotizes its audience through invisible editing, illusionist sound, and 3D) perspective.
01 January 1968
Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 4:08 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
16 April 1983
One-point perspective visual path across the US beginning inside a linear accelerator or atom-smashing device and traveling to such high-energy locations as the home of an ancient sun calendar in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; the site of Ohio Valley Mound cultures; the Golden Gate and Brooklyn Bridges; and beyond.
23 March 2015
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance.
01 January 1988
Three short films. I: The Wet Dream-Questions of seduction, viewer/viewed and personal stories are collaged in this heavily postproduced account of a 'hot tub relationship.
15 November 2003
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 at a time when the nation was clamoring for war and sacrificing its own civil liberties.
05 January 2011
Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film.
14 July 2019
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 Cod, Massachusetts.
01 January 1985
An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.
01 January 1985
A dramatic romantic comedy narrative featuring a pre-menopausal woman who tires to join the Hot Flashes.
15 March 1995
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.
01 January 1975
"The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers coming together through the powers of film.
01 January 1990
Hammer used old x-ray footage, rearranged, colored and orchestrated through optical printing, in order to reveal hidden bodily movements and rhythms in its constant juxtaposition.
01 January 1974
A celebration and collage of lesbians, including footage of the Women's International Day march in SF and joyous dancing from the last night of the second Lesbian Conference where Family of Woman played; as well as images of women doing all types of traditional "men's" work.
20 January 2016
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.
16 May 1976
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 Death Valley before she is taught the lesson of creative inspiration.
12 September 2010
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times.
12 October 2023
Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished film footage from artist Barbara Hammer with evocative sound, texts, and teachings from artist Maya Deren.
05 January 1995
Out in South Africa, a documentary about a country in the state of transition; specifically of lesbians and gays, black and white, Indian and Asian, from townships, cities and rural areas who speak of their lives and desires as homosexuals in post-apartheid South Africa.
10 December 1981
A lesbian/feminist aesthetic proposing the connection between touch and sight to be the basis for a new cinema.
01 January 1987
Place Mattes explores the space between reaching and touching. Animation and optical printing are used to create travelling mattes for places, confounding the difference between eternal and internal.
20 February 2018
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving image throughout their lives.
04 September 2026
An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
04 March 1985
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 that appear well-known and to instill a feeling of anxiety .
01 January 1968
1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
01 January 1979
"Available Space is a film made for performance on a 360 degree rotary projection table. A woman breaks through confining architectural space, the limited space of a film frame, and the boundaries of a movie screen.
25 June 2019
Queer Genius is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creative fields as they confront fame, failure, censorship, family, gender, and sexuality.
10 February 2009
The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with images of light and movement that take her far from the hospital bed.
01 January 1970
Early Barbara Hammer film shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.
09 December 1976
A hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.
19 June 2018
The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of sexuality and gender, underscoring the power that film has to shape our perceptions of one another.
01 January 1984
A film investigating the nature of spectator perception in an unfamiliar environment. Manipulating the movement of the film direction on the screen much like a camera shutter, Hammer questions the perceptual experience of mass tourism as the Bâteau Mouche endlessly circles the île de la Cité.
11 April 1981
Made with Barbara Klutinis. Shot with an underwater camera exploring the swimming pools of the Hearst Castle, California.
01 June 1969
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.
01 January 1968
transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
03 August 1998
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 real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video.
01 January 1969
1969, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 7:34 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
15 July 2015
Lesbian Whale animates early notebooks drawings made by Barbara Hammer between 1969 and 1971, with a voiceover commentary by friends and peers.
15 June 2006
1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending artists lived and worked together all their lives.
01 January 1998
“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 ladies and an amusing digest of voyeuristic platitudes.
01 January 1977
A child, two youths, a mother and three crones spin spirals, joining rituals of birth, death and rebirth.
19 October 1982
An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea.
26 February 2018
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 empathy and identification with the sensitive body.
05 May 1969
Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.
27 January 1955
It shows a family where the son makes a wish to switch sizes with the father so that he can be the boss for a change.
