Barbara Hammer Movie Trailers
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Optic Nerve Trailer (1985)
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.
Doll House Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
"Rapid montage shows a plethora of objects all arranged in, or with reference to, the central prop of a dollhouse.
Barbara Ward Will Never Die Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
Barbara Hammer (then married and known as Barbara Ward) stakes a claim to immortality.
Jane Brakhage Trailer (1975)
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.
Bamboo Xerox Trailer (1983)
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.
White Cassandra Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 4:08 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Bent Time Trailer (1983)
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.
Masculinity/Femininity Trailer (2015)
23 March 2015
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance.
Bedtime Stories Trailer (1988)
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.
Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War Trailer (2003)
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.
Maya Deren's Sink Trailer (2011)
05 January 2011
Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film.
A Month of Single Frames Trailer (2019)
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.
Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.
Hot Flash Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
A dramatic romantic comedy narrative featuring a pre-menopausal woman who tires to join the Hot Flashes.
Barbara Forever Trailer (2026)
04 September 2026
An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
Double Strength Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended trapezes and ropes.
Psychosynthesis Trailer (1975)
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.
Sanctus Trailer (1990)
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.
Film Hawk Trailer (2016)
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.
Sisters! Trailer (1974)
10 March 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.
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution Trailer (2010)
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.
Moon Goddess Trailer (1976)
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.
Superdyke Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
A comedy about a troop of shield-bearing Amazons who take over city institutions before relaxing in the country.
Vever (For Barbara) Trailer (2023)
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.
Sync Touch Trailer (1981)
10 December 1981
A lesbian/feminist aesthetic proposing the connection between touch and sight to be the basis for a new cinema.
Place Mattes Trailer (1987)
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.
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor Trailer (2018)
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.
Nitrate Kisses Trailer (1992)
12 September 1992
Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema, Hammer weaves gay and lesbian couples with footage that unearths the forbidden and invisible history of a marginalized people.
Dykes, Camera, Action! Trailer (2018)
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.
Clay I Love You II Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Available Space Trailer (1979)
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.
Queer Genius Trailer (2019)
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.
Pools Trailer (1981)
11 April 1981
Made with Barbara Klutinis. Shot with an underwater camera exploring the swimming pools of the Hearst Castle, California.
I Was/I Am Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
One of the first 3 16 mm films made by Barbara Hammer. The filmmaker changes from a damsel in gown and crown to a leather jacket motorcycle dyke.
Women I Love Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
A series of cameo portraits of the filmmaker's friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature.
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor Trailer (2009)
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.
Tourist Trailer (1985)
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 .
Elegy Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
Early Barbara Hammer film shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.
Out in South Africa Trailer (1995)
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.
No No Nooky T.V. Trailer (1987)
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.
Two Bad Daughters Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
A whirlwind tour of paternal institutions: fatherhood, Lacanian psychoanalysis and bondage.
Multiple Orgasm Trailer (1976)
09 December 1976
A hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.
Contribution to Light Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Audience Trailer (1983)
20 June 1983
Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm diary of audience reactions at retrospectives of Hammer’s work in San Francisco, London, Toronto, and Montreal in the early 1980s bears none of the distinctive visual flourishes and essayistic form one usually finds in her filmmaking.
Parisian Blinds Trailer (1984)
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.
History of the World According to a Lesbian Trailer (1988)
02 May 1988
From the platonic cave to post-punk, the tape traces the invisible and visible references to women who love women from prehistory to contemporary times with the sarcastic sound of the ’50s lesbian quartet from Seattle, the Sluts from Hell.
Death of a Marriage Trailer (1969)
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.
Women of Vision Trailer (1998)
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.
Cleansed II Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
1969, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 7:34 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Lesbian Whale Trailer (2015)
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.
Lover Other Trailer (2006)
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.
Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It Trailer (1998)
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.
The Great Goddess Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
A child, two youths, a mother and three crones spin spirals, joining rituals of birth, death and rebirth.