Barbara Hammer
Director · Actor · WriterBarbara 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.
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KNOWN FOR
FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR28
Barbara Forever
2026
Self (archive footage)
Vever (For Barbara)
2023
(voice)
A Month of Single Frames
2019
Self
Queer Genius
2019
Evidentiary Bodies
2018
Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018
Beyond the Bolex
2018
Self
Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018
Self
- Film Hawk
Film Hawk
2016
Self
Masculinity/Femininity
2015
Self
Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
2012
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
2010
Self
Generations
2010
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009
Self
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007
Self
Resisting Paradise
2003
Director
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001
Self
- Women of Vision
Women of Vision
1998
Self
The Female Closet
1998
Self
Tender Fictions
1995
Nitrate Kisses
1992
Interviewer / Narrator (voice)
Audience
1983
Self
Pictures 4 Barbara
1981
Self
Double Strength
1978
Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976
- Dyketactics
Dyketactics
1974
Woman Making Love
“X”
1973
DIRECTOR86
Evidentiary Bodies
2018
Director
Welcome to This House
2015
Director
Lesbian Whale
2015
Director
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
Director
Generations
2010
Director
A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009
Director
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007
Director
Fucking Different New York
2007
Director
Lover Other
2006
Director
Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
2003
Director
Resisting Paradise
2003
Director
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002
Director
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001
Director
History Lessons
2000
Director
The Female Closet
1998
Director
Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It
1998
Director
Tender Fictions
1995
Director
Out in South Africa
1995
Director
Save Sex
1993
Director
Nitrate Kisses
1992
Director
Vital Signs
1991
Director
Sanctus
1990
Director
Dr. Watson's X-Rays
1990
Director
- Still Point
Still Point
1989
Director
Endangered
1988
Director
Bedtime Stories
1988
Director
Two Bad Daughters
1988
Director
History of the World According to a Lesbian
1988
Director
T.V. Tart
1988
Director
No No Nooky T.V.
1987
Director
Place Mattes
1987
Director
Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS
1986
Director
- Hot Flash
Hot Flash
1985
Director
Optic Nerve
1985
Director
Tourist
1985
Director
Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
1985
Director
Parisian Blinds
1984
Director
Doll House
1984
Director
Pearl Diver
1984
Director
See What You Hear What You See
1983
Director
- Stone Circles
Stone Circles
1983
Director
- Bent Time
Bent Time
1983
Director
Bamboo Xerox
1983
Director
Audience
1983
Director
Pond and Waterfall
1982
Director
- New York Loft
New York Loft
1981
Director
Pools
1981
Director
Arequipa
1981
Director
Sync Touch
1981
Director
Our Trip
1981
Director
Pictures 4 Barbara
1981
Director
Dream Age
1979
Director
Sappho
1979
Director
Available Space
1979
Director
Double Strength
1978
Director
Haircut
1978
Director
The Great Goddess
1977
Director
Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976
Director
Women I Love
1976
Director
Multiple Orgasm
1976
Director
Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976
Director
Moon Goddess
1976
Director
Superdyke
1975
Director
Jane Brakhage
1975
Director
Psychosynthesis
1975
Director
- Dyketactics
Dyketactics
1974
Director
Sisters!
1974
Director
- Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time
Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time
1974
Director
Menses
1973
Director
I Was/I Am
1973
Director
A Gay Day
1973
Director
Yellow Hammer
1973
Director
“X”
1973
Director
Elegy
1970
Director
Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’
1970
Director
Marie and Me
1970
Director
Traveling
1970
Director
Aldebaran Sees
1969
Director
Death of a Marriage
1969
Director
Cleansed II
1969
Director
Barbara Ward Will Never Die
1968
Director
Schizy
1968
Director
Clay I Love You II
1968
Director
Contribution to Light
1968
Director
White Cassandra
1968
Director
The Baptism
1968
Director
WRITER7
PRODUCER7
EDITOR8
CINEMATOGRAPHER12
Vever (For Barbara)
2023
Director of Photography
A Month of Single Frames
2019
Director of Photography
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
Director of Photography
Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007
Director of Photography
Lover Other
2006
Camera Operator
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001
Camera Operator
History Lessons
2000
Director of Photography
The Female Closet
1998
Director of Photography
Nitrate Kisses
1992
Director of Photography
No No Nooky T.V.
1987
Director of Photography
Audience
1983
Camera Operator
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
1981
Camera Operator
