Barbara Hammer Movies

  • 1974
    Sisters!

    Sisters!

    Sisters!

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    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...

    Sisters!
  • 1973
    Yellow Hammer

    Yellow Hammer

    Yellow Hammer

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    Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

    Yellow Hammer
  • 1984
    Parisian Blinds

    Parisian Blinds

    Parisian Blinds

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    A film investigating the nature of spectator perception in an unfamiliar environment. Manipulating the movement of the film direction on the screen...

    Parisian Blinds
  • 2000
    History Lessons

    History Lessons

    History Lessons

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    A montage of film clips and stills calling all lesbians to come out and celebrate who they are. In a trilogy of experimental documentaries, director...

    History Lessons
  • 1983
    Bent Time

    Bent Time

    Bent Time

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

    Bent Time
  • 1981
    Our Trip

    Our Trip

    Our Trip

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

    Our Trip
  • 1988
    Two Bad Daughters

    Two Bad Daughters

    Two Bad Daughters

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

    Two Bad Daughters
  • 1985
    Tourist

    Tourist

    Tourist

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    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...

    Tourist
  • 2007
    Diving Women of Jeju-do

    Diving Women of Jeju-do

    Diving Women of Jeju-do

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    Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of years, women dive without breathing apparatus, to...

    Diving Women of Jeju-do
  • 1985
    Hot Flash

    Hot Flash

    Hot Flash

    01985HD

    A dramatic romantic comedy narrative featuring a pre-menopausal woman who tires to join the Hot Flashes.

    Hot Flash
  • 2018
    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

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    From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the...

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
  • 1970
    Elegy

    Elegy

    Elegy

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

    Elegy
  • 1988
    History of the World According to a Lesbian

    History of the World According to a Lesbian

    History of the World According to a Lesbian

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    From the platonic cave to post-punk, the tape traces the invisible and visible references to women who love women from prehistory to contemporary...

    History of the World According to a Lesbian
  • 1979
    Sappho

    Sappho

    Sappho

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    Using the sixth century B.C. lyricist's poetry, a group of women unwrap the papyrus gauze of the lesbian goddess and bring her to life. Made by...

    Sappho
  • 1981
    Arequipa

    Arequipa

    Arequipa

    01981HD

    “Shot in the Peruvian convent of Santa Catalina, AREQUIPA analogizes the building blocks of film (frames, color and black and white stocks,...

    Arequipa
  • 1973
    A Gay Day

    A Gay Day

    A Gay Day

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    An experimental film with lesbian themes

    A Gay Day
  • 1969
    Death of a Marriage

    Death of a Marriage

    Death of a Marriage

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    Regarding this film and Cleansed: "These are two of the first films Hammer ever made and two of the last films she made while married to a man. Never...

    Death of a Marriage
  • 1975
    Psychosynthesis

    Psychosynthesis

    Psychosynthesis

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

    Psychosynthesis
  • 2003
    Resisting Paradise

    Resisting Paradise

    Resisting Paradise

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

    Resisting Paradise
  • 1993
    Save Sex

    Save Sex

    Save Sex

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

    Save Sex