Barbara Hammer

ActorCinematographerDirectorWriterProducer May 15 (died age 79) Hollywood, California, USA 1955–2026 (71 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

A Month of Single Frames

Self

Film

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

Self

Film

Superdyke Meets Madame X

5.5 1976

Film

Nitrate Kisses

Interviewer / Narrator (voice)

Film

Pond and Waterfall

Director

Film

Multiple Orgasm

Director

Film

Sanctus

Director

Film

Women I Love

Director

Filmography

Acting (28)

Movies (28)

Barbara Forever

2026

as Self (Archive Footage)

9.0

Vever (For Barbara)

2023

as (voice)

5.0

A Month of Single Frames

as Self

Queer Genius

Beyond the Bolex

as Self

Evidentiary Bodies

Dykes, Camera, Action!

2018

as Self

0.5

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

Film Hawk

as Self

Masculinity/Femininity

2015

as Self

Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand

2012

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

2010

as Self

4.3

Generations

2010

A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

2009

as Self

5.0

Diving Women of Jeju-do

2007

as Self

Resisting Paradise

2003

as Director

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

as Self

Women of Vision

as Self

The Female Closet

as Self

Tender Fictions

Nitrate Kisses

as Interviewer / Narrator (voice)

Audience

as Self

Pictures 4 Barbara

as Self

Double Strength

Superdyke Meets Madame X

1976

5.5

Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles

Dyketactics

as Woman Making Love

“X”

Crew (98)

Movies (98)

Vever (For Barbara)

2023

Director of Photography

5.0

A Month of Single Frames

2019

Director of Photography

6.8

Evidentiary Bodies

2018

Director

Lesbian Whale

2015

Director

Welcome to This House

2015

Director

Maya Deren's Sink

2011

Writer

4.5

Generations

2010

Director

A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

2009

Director

5.0

Diving Women of Jeju-do

2007

Producer

Fucking Different New York

Director

Lover Other

Writer

Resisting Paradise

Director

Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War

2003

Director

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

2002

Producer

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

Director

History Lessons

Director

History Lessons

Director of Photography

History Lessons

Editor

History Lessons

Producer

The Female Closet

Producer

Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It

1998

Director

Out in South Africa

Director

Tender Fictions

Director

Save Sex

Director

Nitrate Kisses

1992

Director

4.7

Nitrate Kisses

1992

Director of Photography

Nitrate Kisses

Editor

Nitrate Kisses

Producer

Nitrate Kisses

Writer

Vital Signs

Director

Dr. Watson's X-Rays

Director

Sanctus

Director

Still Point

Director

T.V. Tart

Director

Endangered

Director

Bedtime Stories

Director

Two Bad Daughters

1988

Director

9.0

History of the World According to a Lesbian

1988

Director

Place Mattes

Director

No No Nooky T.V.

Director

Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

1986

Director

Hot Flash

1985

Director

Tourist

Director

Optic Nerve

Director

Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape

1985

Director

7.0

Pearl Diver

1984

Director

Doll House

1984

Director

Parisian Blinds

1984

Director

7.0

Bamboo Xerox

1983

Director

Stone Circles

1983

Director

Bent Time

Director

Audience

Camera Operator

Audience

Director

See What You Hear What You See

1983

Director

Pond and Waterfall

1982

Director

7.0

Sync Touch

1981

Director

Pools

1981

Director

3.0

Our Trip

1981

Director

Arequipa

1981

Director

6.0

New York Loft

1981

Director

Pictures 4 Barbara

1981

Director

7.0

Greetings from Washington, D.C.

1981

Camera Operator

Dream Age

Director

Sappho

Director

Available Space

Director

Haircut

1978

Director

Double Strength

1978

Director

4.8

The Great Goddess

1977

Director

Superdyke Meets Madame X

Director

Multiple Orgasm

Director

Women I Love

Director

Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles

1976

Director

Moon Goddess

1976

Director

Jane Brakhage

Director

Superdyke

Director

Psychosynthesis

Director

Sisters!

1974

Director

Dyketactics

1974

Director

5.2

Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time

1974

Director

“X”

1973

Director

2.0

Yellow Hammer

1973

Director

A Gay Day

Director

Menses

Director

I Was/I Am

Director

Traveling

Director

Marie and Me

1970

Director

Elegy

1970

Director

Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’

1970

Director

Death of a Marriage

1969

Director

Aldebaran Sees

1969

Director

Cleansed II

1969

Director

Barbara Ward Will Never Die

1968

Director

Contribution to Light

1968

Director

5.0

White Cassandra

1968

Director

Schizy

1968

Director

The Baptism

1968

Director

Clay I Love You II

1968

Director

5.0

Spare the Child

1955

Writer