Barbara Hammer Movies

Made with Barbara Klutinis. Shot with an underwater camera exploring the swimming pools of the Hearst Castle, California.

In Stone Circles, Hammer really leaves ‘nation’ as well as ‘era’ and creates a film poem on the prehistoric stone cultures of...

The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists...

Barbara Hammer (then married and known as Barbara Ward) stakes a claim to immortality.

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...

It shows a family where the son makes a wish to switch sizes with the father so that he can be the boss for a change. The father doesn't like this at...

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

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

1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending...

Hammer used old x-ray footage, rearranged, colored and orchestrated through optical printing, in order to reveal hidden bodily movements and rhythms...

"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...

"Barbara Hammer's Optic Nerve is a powerful personal reflection on family and aging. Hammer employs filmed footage which, through optical printing...

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

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

Welcome To This House, a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop, is about life in the shadows, and the anxiety of...

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

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

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...

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