Barbara Hammer
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.
86 directing credits · 28 acting credits
Directing · 86
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001
Nitrate Kisses
1992
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007
Double Strength
1978
Jane Brakhage
1975
Vital Signs
1991
Our Trip
1981
Optic Nerve
1985
Dream Age
1979
Tender Fictions
1995
T.V. Tart
1988
Pond and Waterfall
1982
Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS
1986
Tourist
1985
Fucking Different New York
2007
Psychosynthesis
1975
Doll House
1984
Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’
1970
Dyketactics
1974
Audience
1983
Death of a Marriage
1969
Lesbian Whale
2015
The Female Closet
1998
I Was/I Am
1973
Yellow Hammer
1973
Multiple Orgasm
1976
History Lessons
2000
“X”
1973
Welcome to This House
2015
Superdyke
1975
Sanctus
1990
Resisting Paradise
2003
Menses
1973
Place Mattes
1987
Arequipa
1981
Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It
1998
Lover Other
2006
Bamboo Xerox
1983
Cleansed II
1969
Sisters!
1974
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009
Pictures 4 Barbara
1981
Stone Circles
1983
Save Sex
1993
Schizy
1968
Available Space
1979
Barbara Ward Will Never Die
1968
Marie and Me
1970
Traveling
1970
No No Nooky T.V.
1987
Contribution to Light
1968
Moon Goddess
1976
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976
Generations
2010
Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
2003
New York Loft
1981
Elegy
1970
Two Bad Daughters
1988
History of the World According to a Lesbian
1988
The Great Goddess
1977
Hot Flash
1985
Bent Time
1983
Endangered
1988
Evidentiary Bodies
2018
A Gay Day
1973
Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time
1974
White Cassandra
1968
Sappho
1979
Pearl Diver
1984
The Baptism
1968
See What You Hear What You See
1983
Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976
Women I Love
1976
Still Point
1989
Aldebaran Sees
1969
Sync Touch
1981
Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
1985
Clay I Love You II
1968
Dr. Watson's X-Rays
1990
Pools
1981
Bedtime Stories
1988
Parisian Blinds
1984
Out in South Africa
1995
Haircut
1978
Acting · 28
Barbara Forever
2026
Beyond the Bolex
2018
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001
Film Hawk
2016
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
2010
Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018
Nitrate Kisses
1992
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007
Double Strength
1978
Women of Vision
1998
Vever (For Barbara)
2023
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018
Queer Genius
2019
Tender Fictions
1995
Dyketactics
1974
Audience
1983
Masculinity/Femininity
2015
A Month of Single Frames
2019
The Female Closet
1998
“X”
1973
Resisting Paradise
2003
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009
Pictures 4 Barbara
1981
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976
Generations
2010
Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
2012
Evidentiary Bodies
2018
Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976