Barbara Hammer

Known for: Directing
Born: May 15, 1939, Hollywood, California, USA
Died: March 16, 2019
Movies: 115

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.

Best-Known Movies

5.6

Dyketactics

1974

4.3

!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

2010

5.0

Nitrate Kisses

1992

6.7

A Month of Single Frames

2019

6.2

Superdyke Meets Madame X

1976

5.0

Women I Love

1976

5.3

Double Strength

1978

4.3

The Female Closet

1998

6.5

History Lessons

2000

3.8

Menses

1973

Filmography

2026	Barbara Forever	Self (archive footage)
2023	Vever (For Barbara)	(voice)
2019	A Month of Single Frames	Self
2019	Queer Genius
2018	Beyond the Bolex	Self
2018	Dykes, Camera, Action!	Self
2018	Evidentiary Bodies
2018	Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2016	Film Hawk	Self
2015	Masculinity/Femininity	Self
2012	Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
2010	!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution	Self
2010	Generations
2009	A Horse Is Not a Metaphor	Self
2007	Diving Women of Jeju-do	Self
2003	Resisting Paradise	Director
2001	My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities	Self
1998	Women of Vision	Self
1998	The Female Closet	Self
1995	Tender Fictions
1992	Nitrate Kisses	Interviewer / Narrator (voice)
1983	Audience	Self
1981	Pictures 4 Barbara	Self
1978	Double Strength
1976	Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976	Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1974	Dyketactics	Woman Making Love
1973	“X”

Directing, Writing & Producing

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

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