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Barbara Hammer

Directing Born May 15, 1939 Hollywood, California, USA 24 credits

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.

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Film

Barbara Forever

as Self (archive footage)

Full filmography

  • Barbara Forever (2026) as Self (archive footage)
  • !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution (2010) as Self
  • Diving Women of Jeju-do (2007) as Self
  • Dykes, Camera, Action! (2018) as Self
  • Film Hawk (2016) as Self
  • Nitrate Kisses (1992) as Interviewer / Narrator (voice)
  • Dyketactics (1974) as Woman Making Love
  • Double Strength (1978)
  • Superdyke Meets Madame X (1976)
  • Vever (For Barbara) (2023) as (voice)
  • Beyond the Bolex (2018) as Self
  • Tender Fictions (1995)
  • “X” (1973)
  • Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor (2018)
  • The Female Closet (1998) as Self
  • My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities (2001) as Self
  • A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2009) as Self
  • Masculinity/Femininity (2015) as Self
  • Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles (1976)
  • Pictures 4 Barbara (1981) as Self
  • Women of Vision (1998) as Self
  • Audience (1983) as Self
  • Queer Genius (2019)
  • Resisting Paradise (2003) as Director