Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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

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

In Tourist, Barbara Hammer depicts a trip to Europe: the flow of images is manipulated with a syncopated rhythm, to alter the perception of places...

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

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

"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...

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

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

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

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

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...

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

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

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

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