
Barbara Hammer
Department: Directing
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.
Known For

A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
2009

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

Dyketactics
1974

Double Strength
1978

Film Hawk
2016

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
2001

Diving Women of Jeju-do
2007

Women of Vision
1998

Generations
2010

Resisting Paradise
2003

Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
2012

Superdyke Meets Madame X
1976

Evidentiary Bodies
2018

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
2018

“X”
1973

Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
1976

Tender Fictions
1995

A Month of Single Frames
2019

Nitrate Kisses
1992

Queer Genius
2019

Beyond the Bolex
2018

Pictures 4 Barbara
1981

Masculinity/Femininity
2015

Vever (For Barbara)
2023

Audience
1983

Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018

The Female Closet
1998

Barbara Forever
2026