Cinematography: Barbara Hammer

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Barbara Hammer. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Dyketactics (S)

1974 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot An experimental film from Barbara Hammer about lesbian couples.

6.5

45 votes

6.5

45 votes

Vever (for Barbara) (S)

2019 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States

Direction Deborah Stratman

Cast Barbara Hammer

Plot A cross-generational binding of three filmmakers seeking alternative possibilities to the power structures they are inherently part of. Each woman extends her reach to a subject she is outside of....

6.2

51 votes

6.2

51 votes

Audience

1982 · Documentary · 32 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Cast Barbara Hammer

Plot Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm diary of audience reactions at retrospectives of Hammer’s work in San Francisco, London, Toronto, and Montreal in the early 1980s bears none of...

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The Baptism (S)

1968 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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Psychosynthesis (S)

1975 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers coming together through the powers of film. (Barbara Hammer)

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Evidentiary Bodies (S)

2016 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Cast Barbara Hammer

Plot Barbara Hammer’s first and only multi-channel video installation, that tackles deeply personal subjects of her life.

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Dr. Watson’s X-Rays (S)

1991 · Documentary · 22 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson.

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Schizy (S)

1968 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Barbara Hammer’s first film.

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Sync Touch (S)

1981 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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Lesbian Whale (S)

2015 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Lesbian Whale ... is a video animation of Hammer’s early notebook drawings set to a sound track of commentary by the artist’s friends and peers. The script is composed of...

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Save Sex (S)

1993 · Documentary · 1 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot A minute-long, partly animated colour video that is a humorous plea for good sex, safely prophylactic though it may be.

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History of the World According to a Lesbian (S)

1988 · Documentary · 22 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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Double Strength (S)

1978 · Documentary · 20 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Cast Barbara Hammer

Plot Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended trapezes and ropes.

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Barbara Ward Will Never Die (S)

1969 · Documentary · 3 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Barbara Hammer (then married and known as Barbara Ward) stakes a claim to immortality.

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Traveling (S)

1970 · Documentary · 25 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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Doll House (S)

1984 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Rapid montage shows a plethora of objects all arranged in, or with reference to, the central prop of a dollhouse. We see whimsical references to domesticity (kitchen implements), clothing (shoes),...

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Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time (S)

1974 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot An autumnal celebration of colorful fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles and tree goddess rites. Shot on witch’s land in Northern California, it is a woman celebrating woman and...

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Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles (S)

1976 · Documentary · 18 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Cast Barbara Hammer

Plot Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her pleasure wrinkles.

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Tender Fictions

1995 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of performances. With a Swiss army knife...

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Arequipa (S)

1981 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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