Born in Hollywood BARBARA HAMMER’s grandfather was a cook for D.W.Griffith and she went on to direct experimental films exploring gender roles.
She has directed over forty films and videos and is considered among the first to create lesbian themed work in the United States.
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Read more about her:
IN PRINT
HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life by Barbara Hammer
ONLINE
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Her Website
Inside Out 2015 Women Directors: Meet Barbara Hammer – ‘Welcome to This House, a Film on Elizabeth Bishop’
Creative Capital
MoMA
Wikipedia
FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):
2015Welcome to this House (Documentary)
2011Maya Deren’s Sink (Video documentary short)
2010/IIGenerations (Documentary)
2009A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (Short)
2007Diving Women of Jeju-do (Video documentary short)
2007Fucking Different New York (segment “Villa Serbolloni”)
2006Lover Other: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (Video documentary)
2006Lover Other
2003Resisting Paradise (Documentary)
2001My Babushka: Searching Ukranian Identities (Documentary)
2000History Lessons (Documentary)
2000Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (Documentary)
1998The Female Closet (Documentary)
1996Tender Fictions (Documentary)
1995Out in South Africa (Documentary)
1992Nitrate Kisses (Documentary)
1991Vital Signs (Short)
1990Sanctus (Short)
1989Hot Flash
1989Still Point (Short)
1988Endangered (Short)
1988History of the World According to a Lesbian (Short)
1987No No Nooky T.V.
1987Place Mattes (Short)
1986Snow Job
1985Optic Nerve (Short)
1985Tourist (Short)
1984Parisian Blinds (Short)
1983Bent Time (Short)
1982Pond and Waterfall (Short)
1981Synch Touch
1981Pools (Short)
1979Dream Age
1979Women I Love (Short)
1978Double Strength (Documentary short)
1978Sappho (Short)
1976Multiple Orgasm (Short)
1974Dyketactics (Short)
1974Sisters! (Documentary short)
1973A Gay Day (Short)