Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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

"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...

"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...

Optical sound!

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

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

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

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

color, silent, 8mm film

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

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

“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...

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

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

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