Barbara Hammer Movies

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...

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

Optical sound!

color, silent, 8mm film

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

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

"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...

"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...

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

An experimental film with lesbian themes

In “Vital Signs” (1991), Barbara Hammer demonstratively transforms the horror of death into its opposite. She tenderly cares for a human...

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...

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

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

PEARL DIVER is about the frustration of communication between two women who try to tell each other "I love you" underwater making humorous a very wet...

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

A series of cameo portraits of the filmmaker's friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature.

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...