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
Vever (For Barbara)
2023
Nitrate Kisses
1992
Double Strength
1978
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018
Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018
Dyketactics
1974
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007
“X”
1973
The Female Closet
1998
Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976
Beyond the Bolex
2018
Film Hawk
2016
Audience
1983
Pictures 4 Barbara
1981
Tender Fictions
1995
Masculinity/Femininity
2015
Queer Genius
2019
Women of Vision
1998
A Month of Single Frames
2019
Generations
2010
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001
Resisting Paradise
2003
Evidentiary Bodies
2018
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009
Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
2012
On the crew 90
Vever (For Barbara)
2023
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002
Nitrate Kisses
1992
Double Strength
1978
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
Superdyke
1975
Available Space
1979
Dyketactics
1974
Fucking Different New York
2007
Save Sex
1993
Welcome to This House
2015
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007
Sisters!
1974
Elegy
1970
Schizy
1968
Multiple Orgasm
1976
Sanctus
1990
Haircut
1978
Stone Circles
1983
Pearl Diver
1984
Marie and Me
1970
No No Nooky T.V.
1987
“X”
1973
The Female Closet
1998
I Was/I Am
1973
Lesbian Whale
2015
Two Bad Daughters
1988
Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976
Pools
1981
The Baptism
1968
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976
Lover Other
2006
New York Loft
1981
Clay I Love You II
1968
Women I Love
1976
Tourist
1985
A Gay Day
1973
Out in South Africa
1995
Audience
1983
Yellow Hammer
1973
Pictures 4 Barbara
1981
T.V. Tart
1988
Tender Fictions
1995
Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’
1970
Dream Age
1979
Aldebaran Sees
1969
Optic Nerve
1985
Sync Touch
1981
Jane Brakhage
1975
Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It
1998
Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time
1974
Psychosynthesis
1975
Vital Signs
1991
Doll House
1984
A Month of Single Frames
2019
Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS
1986
Place Mattes
1987
Contribution to Light
1968
Menses
1973
Generations
2010
Hot Flash
1985
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001
Endangered
1988
The Great Goddess
1977
Resisting Paradise
2003
Bedtime Stories
1988
Our Trip
1981
Evidentiary Bodies
2018
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009
Moon Goddess
1976
Pond and Waterfall
1982
Traveling
1970
Bent Time
1983
History Lessons
2000
Still Point
1989
Death of a Marriage
1969
Dr. Watson's X-Rays
1990
Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
1985
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
1981
Spare the Child
1955
Cleansed II
1969
History of the World According to a Lesbian
1988
White Cassandra
1968
Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
2003
Parisian Blinds
1984
Barbara Ward Will Never Die
1968
Arequipa
1981
Bamboo Xerox
1983
Sappho
1979
See What You Hear What You See
1983