Barbara Hammer Movies

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

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

In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in...

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...

1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 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...

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

One of the first 3 16 mm films made by Barbara Hammer. The filmmaker changes from a damsel in gown and crown to a leather jacket motorcycle dyke.

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

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

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

An autumnal celebration of colorful fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles and tree goddess rites. Shot on witch's land in Northern...

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

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

A celebration and collage of lesbians, including footage of the Women's International Day march in SF and joyous dancing from the last night of the...

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments...

"The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers...

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