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Titles by Barbara Hammer
- "X"
- A Horse Is Not A Metaphor
- Audience
- Available Space
- Bamboo Xerox
- Barbara Ward Will Never Die: Early 8mm and Super 8 Films
- Bedtime Stories I, II, III
- Bent Time
- Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It
- Contribution to Light: Early Super 8 Films
- Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
- Diving Women of Jeju-do
- Double Strength
- Dr. Watson's X-Rays
- Dream Age
- Dyketactics
- Endangered
- Evidentiary Bodies
- Generations
- Haircut
- History Lessons
- I Was/I Am
- Jane Brakhage
- Lesbian Whale
- Lover/Other
- Maya Deren's Sink
- Menses
- Multiple Orgasm
- My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
- Nitrate Kisses
- No No Nooky T.V.
- Optic Nerve
- Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
- Out in South Africa
- Parisian Blinds
- Place Mattes
- Pond and Waterfall
- Pools
- Psychosynthesis
- Resisting Paradise
- Sanctus
- Sappho
- Save Sex
- Shirley Temple and Me
- Sisters!
- Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS
- Still Point
- Stone Circles
- Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
- Superdyke
- Superdyke Meets Madame X
- Sync Touch
- Tender Fictions
- The Female Closet
- The Great Goddess
- The History of the World According to a Lesbian
- Tourist
- Two Bad Daughters
- Vital Signs
- Welcome to This House
- Women I Love
- Would You Like to Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
Sanctus
Sanctus is a film of rephotographed moving x-rays, originally shot by Dr. James Sibley Watson and his colleagues. Making the invisible visible, the film reveals the skeletal structure of the human body as it protects the hidden fragility of interior organ systems.
Writes Hammer: "In making Sanctus I was concerned about the contradictory qualities of beauty and danger of the images that were made by radiation. I delighted in the imagery and at the same time I imagined the deleterious effects of the image making on the subjects. This was my dilemma in making the film and continues until today. I rely on the viewers' intuition of a foreboding, a sense of ambivalence, an unsteady non-homogenous emotive state, a not-knowing."
This film was preserved by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. Original X-Ray Footage filmed by James Sibley Watson, M.D., Sydney A. Weinberg, M.D., Stanley M. Rogoff, M.D., Raymond Gramiak, M.D. This Project was Funded in Part by Public Funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation, The Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship Awarded by The Rocky Mountain Film Center, Boulder, Colorado, in a Project Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and The American Film Institute. Thanks to: Nancy Watson Dean, Jan-Christopher Horak, The George Eastman House, Collective for Living Cinema. Special Thanks to Florrie Burke. “Sanctus”: A Sound Composition by Neil B. Rolnick.
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