Barbara Hammer Movies

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for...

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

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

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

Lesbian Whale animates early notebooks drawings made by Barbara Hammer between 1969 and 1971, with a voiceover commentary by friends and peers. The...

"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...

A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from...

The Peruvian Galapagos Islands feature in Hammer’s film Endangered, where Blue-footed Boobies, seals and iguanas are equated with the filmmaker...

Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended...

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

Film by Barbara Hammer.

An experimental film with lesbian themes

NO NO NOOKY TV posits sexuality to be a social construct in a "sex-text" of satiric graphic representation of "dirty pictures." Made on an Amiga...

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

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

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

1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

A whirlwind tour of paternal institutions: fatherhood, Lacanian psychoanalysis and bondage.

"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...