Barbara Hammer
Birthday: 1939-05-15
Place of Birth: Hollywood, California, USA
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.
Movies
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayere...
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!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feat...
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Dyketactics
Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pi...
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Double Strength
Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists ...
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Film Hawk
What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in co...
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My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a soc...
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Diving Women of Jeju-do
Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of ye...
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Women of Vision
Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The wome...
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Generations
Generations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experi...
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Resisting Paradise
Hammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of political re...
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Superdyke Meets Madame X
From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape ...
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Evidentiary Bodies
We, as human beings on a small globe, united by evolutionary structure and biological DNA have a cha...
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Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, th...
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“X”
A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; ...
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Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."...
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Tender Fictions
Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young arti...
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A Month of Single Frames
In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is...
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Nitrate Kisses
Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture....
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Queer Genius
Queer Genius is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in th...
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Beyond the Bolex
Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading phot...
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Masculinity/Femininity
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, se...
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Vever (For Barbara)
Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished fi...
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Audience
Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Rela...
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Dykes, Camera, Action!
The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the ro...
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The Female Closet
The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to ...
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