Cinematography: Barbara Hammer

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


New York Loft (S)

1983 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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Still Point (S)

1989 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot ‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side the romantic image of her companion walking and stretching under the sun in a...

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White Cassandra (S)

1968 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 4:08 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP.

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Contribution to Light (S)

1968 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Contribution to Light is all about my excitement and thrill at seeing reflected and refracted light. I shot the edges of pieces of found broken glass that streamed light rays...

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Our Trip (S)

1980 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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A Brakhage Song (S)

1972 · Documentary · 3 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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X (S)

1975 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman’s despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from women’s pain to a holistic, self-healing naming ritual.

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The Female Closet

1998 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Cast Alice Austen · Sarah Dezuttere · Nicole Eisenman · Hannah Hoch

Plot 'The Female Closet' uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists Alice Austen, Hannah Höch and Nicole Eisenman. Utilizing groundbreaking...

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No No Nooky T.V. (S)

1987 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Posits sexuality to be a social construct in a “sex-text” of satiric graphic representation of “dirty pictures.” Made on an Amiga Computer and shot in 16mm film, confronts the feminist...

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Pictures for Barbara (S)

1981 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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Tourist (S)

1984 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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Sisters! (S)

1974 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States

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Pools (S)

1981 · Documentary · 6 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer · Barbara Klutinis

Plot Made with Barbara Klutinis. Shot with an underwater camera exploring the swimming pools of the Hearst Castle, California.

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Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’ (S)

1970 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot B&W and color; silent.

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Death of a Marriage (S)

1969 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Regarding this film and Cleansed: “These are two of the first films Hammer ever made and two of the last films she made while married to a man. Never before...

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Cleansed II (S)

1969 · Documentary · 7 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 7:34 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP.

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Home (S)

1978 · Documentary · 12 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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Hot Flash (S)

1985 · Documentary · 17 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

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Generations

2010 · Documentary · 30 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer · Gina Carducci

Plot 'Generations' is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old, hands the camera to Gina Carducci, a...

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Vital Signs (S)

1991 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Barbara Hammer

Plot Barbara Hammer demonstratively transforms the horror of death into its opposite. She tenderly cares for a human skeleton, feeding it, dressing and caressing it, taking it for walks in the...

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