
Director
Barbara Hammer
Born 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.
Directed

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Director · 2002

Jane Brakhage
Director · 1975
Women’s Rites or Truth is the Daughter of Time
Director · 1974
Hot Flash
Director · 1985

History of the World According to a Lesbian
Director · 1988

Two Bad Daughters
Director · 1988

Sync Touch
Director · 1981

Optic Nerve
Director · 1985
Dyketactics
Director · 1974

Tourist
Director · 1985

Resisting Paradise
Director · 2003

Multiple Orgasm
Director · 1976

Parisian Blinds
Director · 1984

Lover Other
Director · 2006

Place Mattes
Director · 1987

Vital Signs
Director · 1991
Bent Time
Director · 1983

Superdyke Meets Madame X
Director · 1976
Acting
Dyketactics
Woman Making Love · 1974

A Month of Single Frames
Self · 2019

Resisting Paradise
Director · 2003

Beyond the Bolex
Self · 2018

Pictures 4 Barbara
Self · 1981

Nitrate Kisses
Interviewer / Narrator (voice) · 1992

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
Self · 2001

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

A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
Self · 2009
Film Hawk
Self · 2016

Vever (For Barbara)
(voice) · 2023

The Female Closet
Self · 1998

Audience
Self · 1983
Women of Vision
Self · 1998

Dykes, Camera, Action!
Self · 2018

Barbara Forever
Self (archive footage) · 2026

Diving Women of Jeju-do
Self · 2007

Masculinity/Femininity
Self · 2015

