Barbara Hammer Movies

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

"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...

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

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...

"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...

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

A lesbian/feminist aesthetic proposing the connection between touch and sight to be the basis for a new cinema. The film explores the tactile child...

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

Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased...

One-point perspective visual path across the US beginning inside a linear accelerator or atom-smashing device and traveling to such high-energy...

From the platonic cave to post-punk, the tape traces the invisible and visible references to women who love women from prehistory to contemporary...

"The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers...

Place Mattes explores the space between reaching and touching. Animation and optical printing are used to create travelling mattes for places,...

‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side...

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

Three short films. I: The Wet Dream-Questions of seduction, viewer/viewed and personal stories are collaged in this heavily postproduced account of a...

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

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

A film investigating the nature of spectator perception in an unfamiliar environment. Manipulating the movement of the film direction on the screen...

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