Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

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...

‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side...

Hammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of political resistance, was especially fascinating to me....

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

color, silent, 8mm film

Early Barbara Hammer film shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

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

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

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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

"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...

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...

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

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

"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...