Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer

  • Birthday: 1939-05-15
  • Deathday: 2019-03-16
  • 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.

Filmography

Dyketactics

1974

As Woman Making Love

Resisting Paradise

2003

As Director

Women of Vision

1998

As Self

Generations

2010

As

“X”

1973

As

Nitrate Kisses

1992

As Interviewer / Narrator (voice)

Queer Genius

2019

As

Beyond the Bolex

2018

As Self

Pictures 4 Barbara

1981

As Self

Vever (For Barbara)

2023

As (voice)

Audience

1982

As Self

Film Hawk

2016

As Self

Production

History Lessons

2000

As Director

Menses

1973

As Director

Tender Fictions

1995

As Director

Dyketactics

1974

As Director

Double Strength

1978

As Director

Lover Other

2006

As Director

Optic Nerve

1985

As Director

Pools

1981

As Director

Pond and Waterfall

1982

As Director

Stone Circles

1983

As Director

Bent Time

1983

As Director

Maya Deren's Sink

2011

As Director

Maya Deren's Sink

2011

As Writer

Welcome to This House

2015

As Director

Diving Women of Jeju-do

2007

As Director

Diving Women of Jeju-do

2007

As Producer

Spare the Child

1955

As Writer

Superdyke Meets Madame X

1975

As Director

Sanctus

1990

As Director

A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

2009

As Director

Nitrate Kisses

1992

As Director

Nitrate Kisses

1992

As Director of Photography

Nitrate Kisses

1992

As Editor

Women I Love

1976

As Director

Multiple Orgasm

1976

As Director

Superdyke

1975

As Director

Still Point

1989

As Director

Vital Signs

1991

As Director

Generations

2010

As Director

Endangered

1988

As Director

Resisting Paradise

2003

As Director

Dyketactics

1974

As Writer

No No Nooky T.V.

1987

As Director

No No Nooky T.V.

1987

As Director of Photography

No No Nooky T.V.

1987

As Editor

Audience

1982

As Director

Sisters!

1974

As Director

Evidentiary Bodies

2018

As Director

I Was/I Am

1973

As Director

A Gay Day

1973

As Director

Tourist

1985

As Director

Place Mattes

1987

As Director

Bedtime Stories

1988

As Director

Aldebaran Sees

1969

As Director

Death of a Marriage

1969

As Director

Elegy

1970

As Director

Schizy

1968

As Director

Yellow Hammer

1973

As Director

Parisian Blinds

1984

As Director

Jane Brakhage

1975

As Director

Sync Touch

1981

As Director

“X”

1973

As Director

Psychosynthesis

1975

As Director

Dream Age

1979

As Director

Doll House

1984

As Director

Our Trip

1981

As Director

Pictures 4 Barbara

1981

As Director

Two Bad Daughters

1988

As Director

History Lessons

2000

As Editor

History Lessons

2000

As Producer

Out in South Africa

1995

As Director

The Female Closet

1998

As Director

Sappho

1979

As Director

Moon Goddess

1976

As Director

T.V. Tart

1988

As Director

Contribution to Light

1968

As Director

White Cassandra

1968

As Director

Clay I Love You II

1968

As Director

Cleansed II

1969

As Director

Maya Deren's Sink

2011

As Editor

Available Space

1979

As Director

Dr. Watson's X-Rays

1990

As Director

Multiple Orgasm

1976

As Writer

Evidentiary Bodies

2016

As Director

Save Sex

1993

As Director

Haircut

1978

As Director

The Female Closet

1998

As Editor

Nitrate Kisses

1992

As Producer

Nitrate Kisses

1992

As Writer

Marie and Me

1970

As Director

Lesbian Whale

2015

As Director

Traveling

1970

As Director

The Baptism

1968

As Director

History Lessons

2000

As Director of Photography

Vever (For Barbara)

2023

As Director of Photography

Maya Deren's Sink

2011

As Director of Photography

Diving Women of Jeju-do

2007

As Director of Photography

The Great Goddess

1977

As Director

A Month of Single Frames

2019

As Director of Photography

Lover Other

2006

As Writer

Lover Other

2006

As Producer

Lover Other

2006

As Editor

Lover Other

2006

As Camera Operator

The Female Closet

1998

As Producer

New York Loft

1981

As Director

The Female Closet

1998

As Director of Photography

The Female Closet

1998

As Sound

Greetings from Washington, D.C.

1981

As Cinematography

Arequipa

1981

As Director

Hot Flash

1985

As Director

Sisters!

1973

As Director

Bamboo Xerox

1983

As Director

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