Barbara Hammer Movies

  • 2002
    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

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    Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30...

    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
  • 2010
    Generations

    Generations

    Generations

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

    Generations
  • 1984
    Doll House

    Doll House

    Doll House

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    "Rapid montage shows a plethora of objects all arranged in, or with reference to, the central prop of a dollhouse. We see whimsical references to...

    Doll House
  • 1983
    Bamboo Xerox

    Bamboo Xerox

    Bamboo Xerox

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    "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...

    Bamboo Xerox
  • 1973
    Sisters!

    Sisters!

    Sisters!

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

    Sisters!
  • 1985
    Hot Flash

    Hot Flash

    Hot Flash

    01985HD

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

    Hot Flash
  • 1981
    Arequipa

    Arequipa

    Arequipa

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

    Arequipa
  • 2003
    Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War

    Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War

    Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War

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    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...

    Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
  • 1983
    See What You Hear What You See

    See What You Hear What You See

    See What You Hear What You See

    01983HD

    Optical sound!

    See What You Hear What You See
  • 1981
    New York Loft

    New York Loft

    New York Loft

    01981HD

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

    New York Loft
  • 1977
    The Great Goddess

    The Great Goddess

    The Great Goddess

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

    The Great Goddess
  • 1968
    The Baptism

    The Baptism

    The Baptism

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    Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

    The Baptism
  • 1970
    Traveling

    Traveling

    Traveling

    01970HD

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

    Traveling
  • 1970
    Marie and Me

    Marie and Me

    Marie and Me

    01970HD

    color, silent, 8mm film

    Marie and Me
  • 1978
    Haircut

    Haircut

    Haircut

    01978HD

    A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

    Haircut
  • 1993
    Save Sex

    Save Sex

    Save Sex

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    A minute-long, partly animated colour video that is a humorous plea for good sex, safely prophylactic though it may be.

    Save Sex
  • 1998
    Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It

    Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It

    Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It

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    “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...

    Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It
  • 1990
    Dr. Watson's X-Rays

    Dr. Watson's X-Rays

    Dr. Watson's X-Rays

    01990HD

    Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

    Dr. Watson's X-Rays
  • 1979
    Available Space

    Available Space

    Available Space

    01979HD

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

    Available Space
  • 1969
    Cleansed II

    Cleansed II

    Cleansed II

    01969HD

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

    Cleansed II