Barbara Hammer Movies

  • 1974
    Dyketactics

    Dyketactics

    Dyketactics

    5.2761974HD

    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...

    Dyketactics
  • 2010
    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

    4.42010HD

    Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing...

    !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
  • 2019
    A Month of Single Frames

    A Month of Single Frames

    A Month of Single Frames

    6.82019HD

    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...

    A Month of Single Frames
  • 1992
    Nitrate Kisses

    Nitrate Kisses

    Nitrate Kisses

    5.21992HD

    Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema,...

    Nitrate Kisses
  • 1976
    Women I Love

    Women I Love

    Women I Love

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    A series of cameo portraits of the filmmaker's friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature.

    Women I Love
  • 1976
    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    5.51976HD

    From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone. Winner of...

    Superdyke Meets Madame X
  • 2016
    Film Hawk

    Film Hawk

    Film Hawk

    4.92016HD

    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...

    Film Hawk
  • 1978
    Double Strength

    Double Strength

    Double Strength

    5.31978HD

    Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended...

    Double Strength
  • 2018
    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

    5.62018HD

    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
  • 1998
    The Female Closet

    The Female Closet

    The Female Closet

    3.91998HD

    The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists...

    The Female Closet
  • 2000
    History Lessons

    History Lessons

    History Lessons

    5.62000HD

    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
  • 1990
    Sanctus

    Sanctus

    Sanctus

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    Hammer used old x-ray footage, rearranged, colored and orchestrated through optical printing, in order to reveal hidden bodily movements and rhythms...

    Sanctus
  • 1973
    Menses

    Menses

    Menses

    4.41973HD

    A wry comedy on the disagreeable aspects of menstruation where women act out their own dramas on a California hillside, in a supermarket, in a...

    Menses
  • 1989
    Still Point

    Still Point

    Still Point

    5.51989HD

    ‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side...

    Still Point
  • 1976
    Multiple Orgasm

    Multiple Orgasm

    Multiple Orgasm

    6.81976HD

    A hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.

    Multiple Orgasm
  • 1982
    Pond and Waterfall

    Pond and Waterfall

    Pond and Waterfall

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    An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments...

    Pond and Waterfall
  • 1995
    Tender Fictions

    Tender Fictions

    Tender Fictions

    4.91995HD

    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...

    Tender Fictions
  • 2009
    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

    52009HD

    The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with...

    A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
  • 2006
    Lover Other

    Lover Other

    Lover Other

    7.32006HD

    1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending...

    Lover Other
  • 1982
    Audience

    Audience

    Audience

    4.31982HD

    Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm...

    Audience