Barbara Hammer
Born: 1939-05-15 in Hollywood, California, USA
Died: 2019-03-16
Known For: Directing
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
2026
- Barbara Forever as Self (archive footage)
2023
- Vever (For Barbara) as (voice)
2019
- Queer Genius
- A Month of Single Frames as Self
2018
2016
- Film Hawk as Self
2015
- Lesbian Whale ... (Director)
- Masculinity/Femininity as Self
- Welcome to This House ... (Director)
2011
- Maya Deren's Sink ... (Director)
2010
2009
- A Horse Is Not a Metaphor as Self
2007
- Diving Women of Jeju-do as Self
- Fucking Different New York ... (Director)
2006
- Lover Other ... (Writer)
2003
- Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War ... (Director)
- Resisting Paradise as Director
2002
- Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions ... (Producer)
2001
2000
- History Lessons ... (Director)
1998
- The Female Closet as Self
- Women of Vision as Self
- Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It ... (Director)
1995
- Tender Fictions
- Out in South Africa ... (Director)
1993
- Save Sex ... (Director)
1992
- Nitrate Kisses as Interviewer / Narrator (voice)
1991
- Vital Signs ... (Director)
1990
- Sanctus ... (Director)
- Dr. Watson's X-Rays ... (Director)
1989
- Still Point ... (Director)
1988
- Two Bad Daughters ... (Director)
- T.V. Tart ... (Director)
- Bedtime Stories ... (Director)
- Endangered ... (Director)
- History of the World According to a Lesbian ... (Director)
1987
- No No Nooky T.V. ... (Director)
- Place Mattes ... (Director)
1986
- Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS ... (Director)
1985
- Tourist ... (Director)
- Hot Flash ... (Director)
- Optic Nerve ... (Director)
- Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape ... (Director)
1984
- Pearl Diver ... (Director)
- Doll House ... (Director)
- Parisian Blinds ... (Director)
1983
- Stone Circles ... (Director)
- Audience as Self
- Bamboo Xerox ... (Director)
- Bent Time ... (Director)
- See What You Hear What You See ... (Director)
1982
- Pond and Waterfall ... (Director)
1981
- Pools ... (Director)
- Greetings from Washington, D.C. ... (Camera Operator)
- Pictures 4 Barbara as Self
- Sync Touch ... (Director)
- New York Loft ... (Director)
- Arequipa ... (Director)
- Our Trip ... (Director)
1979
- Available Space ... (Director)
- Dream Age ... (Director)
- Sappho ... (Director)
1978
- Double Strength
- Haircut ... (Director)
1977
- The Great Goddess ... (Director)
1976
- Multiple Orgasm ... (Director)
- Women I Love ... (Director)
- Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
- Superdyke Meets Madame X
- Moon Goddess ... (Director)
1975
- Superdyke ... (Director)
- Jane Brakhage ... (Director)
- Psychosynthesis ... (Director)
1974
- Dyketactics as Woman Making Love
- Sisters! ... (Director)
- Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time ... (Director)
1973
- A Gay Day ... (Director)
- “X”
- I Was/I Am ... (Director)
- Menses ... (Director)
- Yellow Hammer ... (Director)
1970
- Marie and Me ... (Director)
- Elegy ... (Director)
- Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’ ... (Director)
- Traveling ... (Director)
1969
- Aldebaran Sees ... (Director)
- Cleansed II ... (Director)
- Death of a Marriage ... (Director)
1968
- Schizy ... (Director)
- The Baptism ... (Director)
- Clay I Love You II ... (Director)
- White Cassandra ... (Director)
- Contribution to Light ... (Director)
- Barbara Ward Will Never Die ... (Director)
1955
- Spare the Child ... (Writer)