Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She was a visual artist working primarily in film and video. She made over 80 moving image works in a career that spanned 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema.
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Movies (100)
Por siempre Barbara
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Vever (For Barbara)
2023 · (voice), Director of Photography
A Month of Single Frames
2019 · Self, Director of Photography
Queer Genius
2019
Beyond the Bolex
2018 · Self
Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018 · Self
Evidentiary Bodies
2018 · Director
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018
Film Hawk
2016 · Self
Lesbian Whale
2015 · Director
Welcome to This House
2015 · Director
Masculinity/Femininity
2015 · Self
Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
2012
Maya Deren's Sink
2011 · Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
2010 · Self
Generations
2010 · Director
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009 · Self, Director, Writer
Fucking Different New York
2007 · Director
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007 · Self, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Lover Other
2006 · Writer, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator, Director
Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
2003 · Director
Resisting Paradise
2003 · Director
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002 · Producer, Editor, Director
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001 · Self, Producer, Director, Editor, Camera Operator
History Lessons
2000 · Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
Women of Vision
1998 · Self
The Female Closet
1998 · Self, Producer, Sound, Director of Photography, Director, Editor
Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It
1998 · Director
Tender Fictions
1995 · Director
Out in South Africa
1995 · Director
Save Sex
1993 · Director
Nitrate Kisses
1992 · Interviewer / Narrator (voice), Editor, Director of Photography, Director, Writer, Producer
Vital Signs
1991 · Director
Sanctus
1990 · Director
Dr. Watson's X-Rays
1990 · Director
Still Point
1989 · Director
Two Bad Daughters
1988 · Director
History of the World According to a Lesbian
1988 · Director
Endangered
1988 · Director
Bedtime Stories
1988 · Director
T.V. Tart
1988 · Director
Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS
1987 · Director
No No Nooky T.V.
1987 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Place Mattes
1987 · Director
Tourist
1985 · Director
Hot Flash
1985 · Director
Optic Nerve
1985 · Director
Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
1985 · Director
Parisian Blinds
1984 · Director
Doll House
1984 · Director
Pearl Diver
1984 · Director
Audience
1983 · Self, Director, Camera Operator
Bent Time
1983 · Director
Stone Circles
1983 · Director
See What You Hear What You See
1983 · Director
Bamboo Xerox
1983 · Director
Pond and Waterfall
1982 · Director
Sync Touch
1981 · Director
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
1981 · Camera Operator
Pools
1981 · Director
New York Loft
1981 · Director
Our Trip
1981 · Director
Pictures 4 Barbara
1981 · Self, Director
Arequipa
1981 · Director
Dream Age
1979 · Director
Sappho
1979 · Director
Available Space
1979 · Director
Double Strength
1978 · Director
Haircut
1978 · Director
The Great Goddess
1977 · Director
Multiple Orgasm
1976 · Director, Writer
Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976 · Director
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976 · Director
Moon Goddess
1976 · Director
Women I Love
1976 · Director
Superdyke
1975 · Director
Jane Brakhage
1975 · Director
Psychosynthesis
1975 · Director
Sisters!
1974 · Director
Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time
1974 · Director
Dyketactics
1974 · Woman Making Love, Director, Writer
“X”
1973 · Director
A Gay Day
1973 · Director
Menses
1973 · Director
I Was/I Am
1973 · Director
Yellow Hammer
1973 · Director
Marie and Me
1970 · Director
Traveling
1970 · Director
Elegy
1970 · Director
Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’
1970 · Director
Death of a Marriage
1969 · Director
Aldebaran Sees
1969 · Director
Cleansed II
1969 · Director
Barbara Ward Will Never Die
1968 · Director
Schizy
1968 · Director
White Cassandra
1968 · Director
Clay I Love You II
1968 · Director
Contribution to Light
1968 · Director
The Baptism
1968 · Director
Spare the Child
1955 · Writer
TV shows (0)
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