Barbara Hammer Movies

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

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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...

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

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...