Barbara Hammer Movies

"Available Space is a film made for performance on a 360 degree rotary projection table. A woman breaks through confining architectural space, the...

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. Made by...

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

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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

An experimental film with lesbian themes

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. Never...

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...

transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

Animation of photos and paper cut outs from a hike at Machu Pichu in Peru.

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

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

A child, two youths, a mother and three crones spin spirals, joining rituals of birth, death and rebirth. Filmed in Mendocino, California, where the...

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

B&W and color; silent.

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...

Optical sound!

“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...

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...