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1. Beyond the Bolex (2017)
94 min | Documentary, Biography
When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920's, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still ... See full summary »
Director: Alyssa Bolsey | Stars: Jacques Bolsey, Wim Wenders, Jonas Mekas, Barbara Hammer
Votes: 89
2. The Seventh Art (2012– )
Talk-Show
The Seventh Art is an independently produced video magazine about cinema with profiles on interesting aspects of the film industry, video essays and in-depth interviews with filmmakers set ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Christopher Heron, John Cohen, John Boylan, João Pedro Rodrigues
Votes: 23
3. Disclosure (2020)
TV-MA | 108 min | Documentary
An in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.
Director: Sam Feder | Stars: Laverne Cox, Bianca Leigh, Jen Richards, Alexandra Billings
Votes: 6,089
4. The Cats of Mirikitani (2006)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary
Documentary about red-beret-ed Jimmy Mirikitani, a feisty painter working and living on the street, near the World Trade Center, when 9/11 devastates the neighborhood. A nearby film editor,... See full summary »
Director: Linda Hattendorf | Stars: Bob Bruck, Jess Espinosa, Linda Hattendorf, Richard Hill
Votes: 745
5. Out in South Africa (1995)
54 min | Documentary
Out in South Africa, a documentary about a country in the state of transition; specifically of lesbians and gays, black and white, Indian and Asian, from townships, cities and rural areas ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer | Star: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 17
6. Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2021)
120 min | Documentary
This documentary explores film through the voices of significant professionals who have contributed to make sure moving images survive and remain accessible.
Director: Inés Toharia Terán | Stars: Ann Adachi-Tasch, Laure Adler, Benjamin Chowkwan Ado, Janice Allen
Votes: 255
7. Pond and Waterfall (1982)
15 min | Short, Adventure
An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments with viewing both the air, the water, and... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 31
8. Queer Genius (2019)
115 min | Documentary
"Queer Genius" is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creative fields as they confront fame, failure, censorship, family, gender, and ... See full summary »
Director: Catherine Pancake | Stars: Camae Ayewa, Jibz Cameron, Barbara Hammer, Eileen Myles
Votes: 16
9. Dykes, Camera, Action! (2018)
Unrated | 58 min | Documentary
A history of queer cinema from the women who made it happen.
Director: Caroline Berler | Stars: Desiree Akhavan, Janet Baus, Vicky Du, Cheryl Dunye
Votes: 74
10. Tender Fictions (1996)
58 min | Documentary, Biography
Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of performances. With a Swiss army knife she robs an ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer | Star: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 30
11. Resisting Paradise (2003)
90 min | Documentary, Drama, War
The work of two artists, Henri Matisse and Henri Bonnard, during the World War II period, is explored in this documentary.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Bettina Bergo, Rudy Binion, Jacqueline Chambord, Denys Colomb de Daunant
Votes: 33
12. Evidentiary Bodies (2016)
10 min | Short, Drama
Barbara Hammer's first and only multi-channel video installation, that tackles deeply personal subjects of her life.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Star: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 14
13. History of the World According to a Lesbian (1988)
22 min | Short
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 97
15. My Babushka: Searching Ukranian Identities (2001)
53 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Filmmaker Barbara Hammer goes to her ancestral village in the Ukraine in search of her roots.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Vera Berdashevich, Vadim Bezprozvany, Greesha Felanovsky, Alexander Ficinko
Votes: 23
16. The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
Director: Cheryl Dunye | Stars: Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson
Votes: 3,685
17. Nitrate Kisses (1992)
67 min | Documentary
Visually structured around four couples making love, one couple at a time; narratively structured around four chapters in lesbian life: older women talking about what it was like in the 30s... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Jerre, Maria, Ruth, Sandy Binford
Votes: 168
18. Masculinity/Femininity (2014)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super 8, the project merges academic and ... See full summary »
Director: Russell Sheaffer | Stars: Michele Aaron, John Greyson, Jack Halberstam, Barbara Hammer
Votes: 14
20. Bent Time (1983)
22 min | Short
One-point perspective visual path across the US beginning inside a linear accelerator or atom-smashing device and traveling to such high-energy locations as the home of an ancient sun ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 34
21. Lover Other (2006)
55 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
French Surrealist lesbian sisters, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, played by Kathleen Chalfant and Marty Pottenger leave Paris for Jersey Isle in 1937. They collaborate creating ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Kathleen Chalfant, Alana Chazan, Yves Musard, Marty Pottenger
Votes: 70
24. Sanctus (2009)
20 min | Short
The fragility of the human body, as seen thru X Rays, is explored in this documentary.
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 80
25. Snow Job (1986)
8 min | Short
A documentary on how the AIDS epidemic affecting gay people was covered in the media.
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 13
26. Pools (1981)
6 min | Short
An experimental work in which two women take turns filming each other as they swim through the pools of William Randalph Hearst's estate of San Simeon.
Directors: Barbara Hammer, Barbara Klutinis | Stars: Barbara Hammer, Barbara Klutinis
Votes: 49
27. Place Mattes (1987)
8 min | Animation, Short
Place Mattes explores the space between reaching and touching. Animation and optical printing are used to create travelling mattes for places, confounding the difference between eternal and internal.
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 16
28. No No Nooky T.V. (1987)
12 min | Short
How women view their own sexuality is compared with the images of women and sex from the male point of view.
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 52
29. The Royal Road (2015)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, History
A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, The Royal Road offers up a primer on the Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on ... See full summary »
Director: Jenni Olson | Stars: Jenni Olson, Tony Kushner
Votes: 199
31. Welcome to this House (2015)
79 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Welcome To This House, a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop, is about life in the shadows, and the anxiety of art making without full lesbian ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Elizabeth Bishop, Kathleen Chalfant, Barbara Hammer, Erin Miller
Votes: 22
32. History Lessons (2000)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, Adult, History
A montage of film clips and stills calling all lesbians to come out and celebrate who they are. Weaving together clips social guidance and classroom shorts from the fifties, a World War II ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Ann Maguire, Jane Fine, Cocoa Fusco, David Del Tredici
Votes: 109 | Gross: $0.01M
33. Maya Deren's Sink (2011 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit of one who was larger than life as ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer | Star: Bekka Lindstrom
Votes: 31
34. Superdyke (1975)
18 min | Short
Meet the Superdykes, a troop of shield-bearing Amazons taking over.
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 9
35. Film Hawk (2016)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary
Film Hawk is based on the life of Bob Hawk. The documentary traces his early years as a young gay child of a Methodist minister to his current career as a consultant on some of the most influential independent films of our time.
Directors: JJ Garvine, Tai Parquet | Stars: Robert Hawk, Kevin Smith, Edward Burns, Scott McGehee
Votes: 25
36. A Month of Single Frames (2019)
14 min | Short
In 1998 lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer took part in a one-month residency at a Cape Cod dune shack without running water or electricity, where she shot film, recorded sound ... See full summary »
Director: Lynne Sachs
Votes: 259
37. Optic Nerve (1985)
16 min | Short
Brief glimpses of an elderly woman being wheeled into and around a grocery store and a nursing home, where a few other elderly women are found. Hammer experiments by slowing the footage ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer | Star: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 19
39. Audience (1982)
32 min | Documentary, Short
Hammer interviews her largely lesbian audiences before and after screenings of her work, capturing their reactions to her radical, erotic, experimental films.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Barbara Hammer, Curt McDowell, Anita Monga, Ulrike Ottinger
Votes: 58
40. The Female Closet (1998)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Lesbian photographer Alice Austen is profiled in this documentary.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Alice Austen, Sarah Dezuttere, Nicole Eisenman, Hannah Hoch
Votes: 135
41. Tourist (1985)
4 min | Short
In Tourist, Barbara Hammer depicts a trip to Europe: the flow of images is manipulated with a syncopated rhythm, to alter the perception of places that appear well-known and to instill a feeling of anxiety.
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 23
42. Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2000)
82 min | Documentary
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and hierarchical relationships among a committed group of filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man - Ogawa Shinsuke.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Chiho Fuseya, Hiroo Fuseya, Yukimo Fuseya, Sumiko Haneda
Votes: 26
43. A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2009)
30 min | Short
After the director goes through chemotherapy sessions, she celebrates her remission by riding horses out West.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Star: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 23
44. Double Strength (1978)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Barbara Hammer interviews a lesbian couple, both gymnasts and performance artists and photographs them doing their routines in the nude.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Barbara Hammer, Terry Sendgraff
Votes: 50
46. Psychosynthesis (1975)
6 min | Short
"The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers coming together through the powers of film." - Barbara Hammer
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 11
47. Multiple Orgasm (1976)
6 min | Short, Fantasy, Adult
A hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Star: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 66