Barbara Hammer Movies

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

"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...

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

Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of...

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...

"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...

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

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

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

Generations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old,...

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

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

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

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

An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments...

Hammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of political resistance, was especially fascinating to me....

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

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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