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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1805 |
| Birthday | 1939-05-15 |
| Place of Birth | Hollywood, California, USA |
| Also Known As |
2009
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
5/3
The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with imag...
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A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2010
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
4.3/17
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing politic...
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!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
1974
Dyketactics
5.571/35
Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minut...
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Dyketactics
1978
Double Strength
5.3/9
Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended tr...
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Double Strength
2016
Film Hawk
4.4/8
What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in common? A secret weapon known as Bob Hawk. As a vet...
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Film Hawk
2001
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
5.5/4
This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for h...
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My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2007
Diving Women of Jeju-do
0/0
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 th...
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Diving Women of Jeju-do
1998
Women of Vision
1/2
Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the...
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Women of Vision
2010
Generations
0/0
Generations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old, h...
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Generations
2003
Resisting Paradise
8/1
Hammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of political resistance, was especially fascinating to me. Hammer...
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Resisting Paradise
2012
Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
0/0
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Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
1976
Superdyke Meets Madame X
6.2/10
From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone.
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Superdyke Meets Madame X
2018
Evidentiary Bodies
0/0
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 emp...
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Evidentiary Bodies
2018
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
5.6/5
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the mo...
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Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
1973
“X”
2/2
A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from...
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“X”
1976
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
0/0
Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."
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Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1995
Tender Fictions
5.9/5
Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of performances...
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Tender Fictions
2019
A Month of Single Frames
6.8/11
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 Cape...
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A Month of Single Frames
1992
Nitrate Kisses
4.962/13
Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema, Ham...
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Nitrate Kisses
2019
Queer Genius
0/0
Queer Genius is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creative fields as they confront fame, failure...
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Queer Genius
2018
Beyond the Bolex
7/2
Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents that...
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Beyond the Bolex
1981
Pictures 4 Barbara
7/1
Film by Barbara Hammer.
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Pictures 4 Barbara
2015
Masculinity/Femininity
0/0
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super 8...
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Masculinity/Femininity
2023
Vever (For Barbara)
5/1
Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished film footage from artist Barbara Hammer with evocati...
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Vever (For Barbara)
1983
Audience
3.5/4
Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm diary of audie...
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Audience
2018
Dykes, Camera, Action!
0.5/1
The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of sexual...
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Dykes, Camera, Action!
1998
The Female Closet
4.214/7
The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists Al...
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The Female Closet
2026
Barbara Forever
9/1
An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
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