Barbara Hammer Movie Trailers
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Dream Age Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
"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 around the perimeters of the San Francisco Bay.
Our Trip Trailer (1981)
28 February 1981
Animation of photos and paper cut outs from a hike at Machu Pichu in Peru.
Fucking Different New York Trailer (2007)
10 February 2007
What do construction workers do in their well-earned breaks? How might Angelina Jolie's and Brad Pitt's relationship have ended? And what really happened between Marilyn Monroe and Joan Crawford during the summer of 1959? The answers to these and many other interesting questions are provided by twelve queer New York filmmakers.
Stone Circles Trailer (1983)
11 April 1983
In Stone Circles, Hammer really leaves ‘nation’ as well as ‘era’ and creates a film poem on the prehistoric stone cultures of Britain.
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles Trailer (1976)
08 July 1976
Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."
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.
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions Trailer (2002)
26 January 2002
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man-Ogawa Shinsuke.
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.
Beyond the Bolex Trailer (2018)
08 November 2018
Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents that belonged to her great-grandfather Jacques Bolsey.
Dyketactics Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minute, hippie wonder consisting of frolicking naked women in the countryside, broke new ground for its exploration of lesbian identity, desire and aesthetic.
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.
Save Sex Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
A minute-long, partly animated colour video that is a humorous plea for good sex, safely prophylactic though it may be.
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine.
History Lessons Trailer (2000)
21 June 2000
A montage of film clips and stills calling all lesbians to come out and celebrate who they are. In a trilogy of experimental documentaries, director Barbara Hammer rewrites history by inserting lesbians and lesbian imagery throughout educational films, newsreels, medical footage and more from the past century.
Vital Signs Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
In “Vital Signs” (1991), Barbara Hammer demonstratively transforms the horror of death into its opposite.
Resisting Paradise Trailer (2003)
08 May 2003
Hammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of political resistance, was especially fascinating to me.
Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased homophobia, sexual discrimination and repression of gays.
Two Bad Daughters Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
A whirlwind tour of paternal institutions: fatherhood, Lacanian psychoanalysis and bondage.
“X” Trailer (1973)
21 June 1973
A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from women's pain to a holistic, self-healing naming ritual.
Diving Women of Jeju-do Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of years, women dive without breathing apparatus, to the ocean floor and collect shellfish, octopus, and urchins that they sell.
Menses Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
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 red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding.
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.
Superdyke Meets Madame X Trailer (1976)
22 September 1976
From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone.
Still Point Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side the romantic image of her companion walking and stretching under the sun in a landscape and the gritty realism of a methodical garbage picker on the street of New York city, pushing a shopping cart and moving on to the next waste container.
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.
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.
The Female Closet Trailer (1998)
06 June 1998
The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists Alice Austen, Hannah Höch and Nicole Eisenman.
Generations Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
Generations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking.
Welcome to This House Trailer (2015)
26 May 2015
Welcome To This House, a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop, is about life in the shadows, and the anxiety of art making without full lesbian disclosure.
Pearl Diver Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
PEARL DIVER is about the frustration of communication between two women who try to tell each other "I love you" underwater making humorous a very wet situation.
New York Loft Trailer (1981)
12 March 1981
“Both NEW YORK LOFT and DOLL HOUSE convey a strong sense of resourcefulness, this ‘making something’ out of interiors, specifically domestic spaces.
Arequipa Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
“Shot in the Peruvian convent of Santa Catalina, AREQUIPA analogizes the building blocks of film (frames, color and black and white stocks, negative reversal, superimpositions) to the frames of architecture (doorways, windows, walls, corridors).
Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time Trailer (1974)
21 February 1974
An autumnal celebration of colorful fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles and tree goddess rites.
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.
Endangered Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
The Peruvian Galapagos Islands feature in Hammer’s film Endangered, where Blue-footed Boobies, seals and iguanas are equated with the filmmaker herself who identifies light, life and the genre of experimental film to be threatened with extinction in this late twentieth century.
Sappho Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
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.