Barbara Hammer Movies

An autumnal celebration of colorful fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles and tree goddess rites. Shot on witch's land in Northern...

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...

1970, 25:27 min, color, silent, 8mm film on video.

1969, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 7:34 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

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

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...

An experimental film with lesbian themes

Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."

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

A child, two youths, a mother and three crones spin spirals, joining rituals of birth, death and rebirth. Filmed in Mendocino, California, where the...

1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

In California a young woman artist/filmmaker is led by an older female artist through the small pine forests of Mendocino and the hot desert sands of...

Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 4:08 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

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

transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

"Rapid montage shows a plethora of objects all arranged in, or with reference to, the central prop of a dollhouse. We see whimsical references to...

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