Barbara Hammer

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1939-05-15 (80 years old)

Deathday

2019-03-16

Place of Birth

Hollywood, California, USA

Barbara Hammer

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.

Production

1977

2019

A Month of Single Frames

as Director of Photography

2006

Lover Other

as Writer

2006

Lover Other

as Producer

2006

Lover Other

as Editor

2006

Lover Other

as Camera Operator

1998

1981

New York Loft

as Director

1985

Hot Flash

as Director

2000

History Lessons

as Director

1998

The Female Closet

as Director of Photography

1998

1973

Menses

as Director

1995

Tender Fictions

as Director

1974

Dyketactics

as Director

1978

Double Strength

as Director

2006

Lover Other

as Director

1981

Pools

as Director

1982

1983

Stone Circles

as Director

1983

Bent Time

as Director

2011

2011

1985

Optic Nerve

as Director

2015

1955

1973

Sisters!

as Director

1990

Sanctus

as Director

1983

Bamboo Xerox

as Director

1992

Nitrate Kisses

as Director

1992

Nitrate Kisses

as Director of Photography

1992

1976

Women I Love

as Director

1976

Multiple Orgasm

as Director

1975

Superdyke

as Director

1989

Still Point

as Director

1991

Vital Signs

as Director

2010

Generations

as Director

1988

Endangered

as Director

2003

1974

Dyketactics

as Writer

1987

No No Nooky T.V.

as Director

1987

No No Nooky T.V.

as Director of Photography

1987

1982

Audience

as Director

2018

1973

I Was/I Am

as Director

1974

Sisters!

as Director

1973

A Gay Day

as Director

1985

Tourist

as Director

1987

Place Mattes

as Director

1988

Bedtime Stories

as Director

1969

Aldebaran Sees

as Director

1969

1981

Arequipa

as Director

1970

Elegy

as Director

1968

Schizy

as Director

1973

Yellow Hammer

as Director

1984

Parisian Blinds

as Director

1975

Jane Brakhage

as Director

1975

Psychosynthesis

as Director

1979

Dream Age

as Director

1984

Doll House

as Director

1981

Sync Touch

as Director

1973

“X”

as Director

1981

Our Trip

as Director

1981

1988

2000

2000

History Lessons

as Producer

1995

1998

1968

1968

White Cassandra

as Director

1968

1969

Cleansed II

as Director

1976

Moon Goddess

as Director

1979

Sappho

as Director

1988

T.V. Tart

as Director

2011

1979

Available Space

as Director

1990

1976

1993

Save Sex

as Director

1978

Haircut

as Director

1998

1992

Nitrate Kisses

as Producer

1992

1970

Marie and Me

as Director

2015

Lesbian Whale

as Director

1970

Traveling

as Director

1968

The Baptism

as Director

2000

History Lessons

as Director of Photography

2023

Vever (For Barbara)

as Director of Photography

2011

Maya Deren's Sink

as Director of Photography

2007

Diving Women of Jeju-do

as Director of Photography

1981

1984

Pearl Diver

as Director

1982

Audience

as Camera Operator

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