Barbara Hammer
Directing • AGE 79
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. Sh...
Filmography
Barbara Forever
Self (archive footage)
2026
Vever (For Barbara)
(voice)
2023
A Month of Single Frames
Self
2019
Queer Genius
2019
Beyond the Bolex
Self
2018
Dykes, Camera, Action!
Self
2018
Evidentiary Bodies
2018
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018
Lesbian Whale
Director
2015
Welcome to This House
Director
2015
Masculinity/Femininity
Self
2015
Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
2012
Maya Deren's Sink
Director
2011
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
Self
2010
Generations
2010
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
Self
2009
Fucking Different New York
Director
2007
Diving Women of Jeju-do
Self
2007
Lover Other
Writer
2006
Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
Director
2003
Resisting Paradise
Director
2003
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Producer
2002
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
Self
2001
History Lessons
Director
2000
The Female Closet
Self
1998
Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It
Director
1998
Tender Fictions
1995
Out in South Africa
Director
1995
Save Sex
Director
1993
Nitrate Kisses
Interviewer / Narrator (voice)
1992
Vital Signs
Director
1991
Sanctus
Director
1990
Dr. Watson's X-Rays
Director
1990
History of the World According to a Lesbian
Director
1988
Endangered
Director
1988
Bedtime Stories
Director
1988
Two Bad Daughters
Director
1988
T.V. Tart
Director
1988
No No Nooky T.V.
Director
1987
Place Mattes
Director
1987
Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS
Director
1986
Tourist
Director
1985
Optic Nerve
Director
1985
Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
Director
1985
Parisian Blinds
Director
1984
Doll House
Director
1984
Pearl Diver
Director
1984
Audience
Self
1983
See What You Hear What You See
Director
1983
Bamboo Xerox
Director
1983
Pond and Waterfall
Director
1982
Sync Touch
Director
1981
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
Camera Operator
1981
Pools
Director
1981
Our Trip
Director
1981
Pictures 4 Barbara
Self
1981
Arequipa
Director
1981
Dream Age
Director
1979
Sappho
Director
1979
Available Space
Director
1979
Double Strength
1978
Haircut
Director
1978
The Great Goddess
Director
1977
Multiple Orgasm
Director
1976
Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976
Moon Goddess
Director
1976
Women I Love
Director
1976
Superdyke
Director
1975
Jane Brakhage
Director
1975
Psychosynthesis
Director
1975
Sisters!
Director
1974
“X”
1973
A Gay Day
Director
1973
Menses
Director
1973
I Was/I Am
Director
1973
Yellow Hammer
Director
1973
Marie and Me
Director
1970
Traveling
Director
1970
Elegy
Director
1970
Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’
Director
1970
Death of a Marriage
Director
1969
Aldebaran Sees
Director
1969
Cleansed II
Director
1969
Barbara Ward Will Never Die
Director
1968
Schizy
Director
1968
White Cassandra
Director
1968
Clay I Love You II
Director
1968
Contribution to Light
Director
1968
The Baptism
Director
1968
Spare the Child
Writer
1955