Barbara Hammer Movies

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. The father doesn't like this at...

1969, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 7:34 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

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.

An experimental film with lesbian themes

Film by Barbara Hammer.

1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

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

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

The Peruvian Galapagos Islands feature in Hammer’s film Endangered, where Blue-footed Boobies, seals and iguanas are equated with the filmmaker...

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

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...

color, silent, 8mm film

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

Lesbian Whale animates early notebooks drawings made by Barbara Hammer between 1969 and 1971, with a voiceover commentary by friends and peers. The...

A whirlwind tour of paternal institutions: fatherhood, Lacanian psychoanalysis and bondage.

"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...

Combining perhaps the only footage from the first Women’s International Day march in San Francisco and rare footage of the second National...

A dramatic romantic comedy narrative featuring a pre-menopausal woman who tires to join the Hot Flashes.

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

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...