Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minute, hippie wonder consisting of frolicking naked women in the countryside, broke new ground for its exploration of lesbian identity, desire and aesthetic.

I Can't Think Straight
2008
7.5/10

A Perfect Ending
2012
6.2/10

Camp Belvidere
2014
6.5/10

The World Unseen
2007
7.0/10

My Brilliant Career
1979
6.2/10

Elena Undone
2010
6.9/10

When Night Is Falling
1995
6.3/10

All Over Me
1997
5.9/10

Iron Jawed Angels
2004
6.8/10

Bessie
2015
6.3/10

The Truth About Emanuel
2013
6.0/10

Lockdown
2000
6.0/10

Return to Rajapur
2006
6.8/10

Time Is Up
2021
6.4/10

If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
6.5/10

Newness
2017
6.0/10

The Safety of Objects
2002
6.5/10

Elegy
2008
6.3/10

Bloomington
2010
6.5/10

Starving in Suburbia
2014
6.5/10
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
1998
6.143/10