Directing · b. 1939 · Hollywood, California, USA

Barbara Hammer

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.

Directed
Evidentiary Bodies 2018 Welcome to This House 2015 Lesbian Whale 2015 Maya Deren's Sink 2011 Generations 2010 A Horse Is Not a Metaphor 2009 Diving Women of Jeju-do 2007 Fucking Different New York 2007 Lover Other 2006 Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War 2003 Resisting Paradise 2003 Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions 2002 My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities 2001 History Lessons 2000 The Female Closet 1998 Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It 1998 Tender Fictions 1995 Out in South Africa 1995 Save Sex 1993 Nitrate Kisses 1992 Vital Signs 1991 Sanctus 1990 Dr. Watson's X-Rays 1990 Still Point 1989 Endangered 1988 Bedtime Stories 1988 Two Bad Daughters 1988 History of the World According to a Lesbian 1988 T.V. Tart 1988 No No Nooky T.V. 1987 Place Mattes 1987 Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS 1986 Hot Flash 1985 Optic Nerve 1985 Tourist 1985 Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape 1985 Parisian Blinds 1984 Doll House 1984 Pearl Diver 1984 See What You Hear What You See 1983 Stone Circles 1983 Bent Time 1983 Bamboo Xerox 1983 Audience 1983 Pond and Waterfall 1982 New York Loft 1981 Pools 1981 Arequipa 1981 Sync Touch 1981 Our Trip 1981 Pictures 4 Barbara 1981 Dream Age 1979 Sappho 1979 Available Space 1979 Double Strength 1978 Haircut 1978 The Great Goddess 1977 Superdyke Meets Madame X 1976 Women I Love 1976 Multiple Orgasm 1976 Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles 1976 Moon Goddess 1976 Superdyke 1975 Jane Brakhage 1975 Psychosynthesis 1975 Dyketactics 1974 Sisters! 1974 Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time 1974 Menses 1973 I Was/I Am 1973 A Gay Day 1973 Yellow Hammer 1973 “X” 1973 Elegy 1970 Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’ 1970 Marie and Me 1970 Traveling 1970 Aldebaran Sees 1969 Death of a Marriage 1969 Cleansed II 1969 Barbara Ward Will Never Die 1968 Schizy 1968 White Cassandra 1968 Clay I Love You II 1968 Contribution to Light 1968 The Baptism 1968
Cinematography
Vever (For Barbara) 2023 A Month of Single Frames 2019 Maya Deren's Sink 2011 Diving Women of Jeju-do 2007 History Lessons 2000 The Female Closet 1998 Nitrate Kisses 1992 No No Nooky T.V. 1987
Acting
Barbara Forever Self (Archive Footage) 2026 Queer Genius 2019 Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor 2018 Beyond the Bolex Self 2018 Dykes, Camera, Action! Self 2018 Film Hawk Self 2016 Masculinity/Femininity Self 2015 Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand 2012 !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution Self 2010 Women of Vision Self 1998
Other Credits
Greetings from Washington, D.C. Camera Operator 1981 Spare the Child Writer 1955
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