Barbara Hammer
Directing
Biography
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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Barbara Forever
2026
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
2010
Double Strength
1978
Nitrate Kisses
1992
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018
Dyketactics
1974
Film Hawk
2016
Vever (For Barbara)
2023
“X”
1973
Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018
The Female Closet
1998
Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976
Beyond the Bolex
2018
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976
A Month of Single Frames
2019
Masculinity/Femininity
2015
Pictures 4 Barbara
1981
Audience
1983
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001
Generations
2010
Women of Vision
1998
Evidentiary Bodies
2018
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009
Tender Fictions
1995
Queer Genius
2019
Resisting Paradise
2003
Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
2012
On the crew 90
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
Double Strength
1978
Nitrate Kisses
1992
Fucking Different New York
2007
Dyketactics
1974
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002
Pearl Diver
1984
Superdyke
1975
Multiple Orgasm
1976
Lover Other
2006
Vever (For Barbara)
2023
The Baptism
1968
Available Space
1979
“X”
1973
Lesbian Whale
2015
Save Sex
1993
Sisters!
1974
Elegy
1970
Hot Flash
1985
Sanctus
1990
Stone Circles
1983
Schizy
1968
No No Nooky T.V.
1987
Vital Signs
1991
Pools
1981
Haircut
1978
Women I Love
1976
Tourist
1985
Spare the Child
1955
The Female Closet
1998
I Was/I Am
1973
Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976
Out in South Africa
1995
Clay I Love You II
1968
Welcome to This House
2015
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976
A Month of Single Frames
2019
Two Bad Daughters
1988
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
1981
A Gay Day
1973
Jane Brakhage
1975
Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’
1970
New York Loft
1981
T.V. Tart
1988
Marie and Me
1970
Pictures 4 Barbara
1981
Audience
1983
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001
Menses
1973
Generations
2010
Doll House
1984
Contribution to Light
1968
Bedtime Stories
1988
Cleansed II
1969
Sync Touch
1981
Pond and Waterfall
1982
Evidentiary Bodies
2018
Psychosynthesis
1975
Optic Nerve
1985
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009
Parisian Blinds
1984
Tender Fictions
1995
Yellow Hammer
1973
Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS
1987
Death of a Marriage
1969
Endangered
1988
Aldebaran Sees
1969
Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time
1974
Moon Goddess
1976
History Lessons
2000
White Cassandra
1968
Sappho
1979
Still Point
1989
Bamboo Xerox
1983
Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It
1998
Arequipa
1981
Bent Time
1983
Our Trip
1981
See What You Hear What You See
1983
Resisting Paradise
2003
Dream Age
1979
Place Mattes
1987
Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
1985
Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
2003
The Great Goddess
1977
Barbara Ward Will Never Die
1968
Dr. Watson's X-Rays
1990
History of the World According to a Lesbian
1988
Traveling
1970