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Born May 15, 1939 · Hollywood, California, USA
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.

Evidentiary Bodies
2018

Lesbian Whale
2015

Welcome to This House
2015

Maya Deren's Sink
2011

Generations
2010

A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009

Fucking Different New York
2007

Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007

Lover Other
2006

Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
2003

Resisting Paradise
2003

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001

History Lessons
2000

The Female Closet
1998

Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It
1998

Tender Fictions
1995

Out in South Africa
1995

Save Sex
1993

Nitrate Kisses
1992

Vital Signs
1991

Sanctus
1990

Dr. Watson's X-Rays
1990
Still Point
1989

History of the World According to a Lesbian
1988

Endangered
1988

Bedtime Stories
1988

Two Bad Daughters
1988

T.V. Tart
1988

No No Nooky T.V.
1987

Place Mattes
1987

Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS
1986

Tourist
1985
Hot Flash
1985

Optic Nerve
1985

Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
1985

Parisian Blinds
1984

Doll House
1984

Pearl Diver
1984

Audience
1983
Bent Time
1983
Stone Circles
1983

See What You Hear What You See
1983

Bamboo Xerox
1983

Pond and Waterfall
1982

Sync Touch
1981

Pools
1981
New York Loft
1981

Our Trip
1981

Arequipa
1981

Pictures 4 Barbara
1981

Dream Age
1979

Sappho
1979

Available Space
1979

Double Strength
1978

Haircut
1978

The Great Goddess
1977

Multiple Orgasm
1976

Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976

Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976

Moon Goddess
1976

Women I Love
1976

Superdyke
1975

Jane Brakhage
1975

Psychosynthesis
1975
Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time
1974
Dyketactics
1974

Sisters!
1974

“X”
1973

A Gay Day
1973

Menses
1973

I Was/I Am
1973

Yellow Hammer
1973

Marie and Me
1970

Traveling
1970

Elegy
1970

Play or ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’
1970

Death of a Marriage
1969

Aldebaran Sees
1969

Cleansed II
1969

Barbara Ward Will Never Die
1968

Schizy
1968

Contribution to Light
1968

White Cassandra
1968

Clay I Love You II
1968

The Baptism
1968

Barbara Forever
2026

Vever (For Barbara)
2023

A Month of Single Frames
2019

Queer Genius
2019

Beyond the Bolex
2018

Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018

Evidentiary Bodies
2018

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018
Film Hawk
2016

Masculinity/Femininity
2015

Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
2012

!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
2010

Generations
2010

A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009

Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007

Resisting Paradise
2003

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001
Women of Vision
1998

The Female Closet
1998

Tender Fictions
1995

Nitrate Kisses
1992

Audience
1983

Pictures 4 Barbara
1981

Double Strength
1978

Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976

Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976
Dyketactics
1974

“X”
1973