Barbara Hammer takes her camera out to film the audiences at screenings of her films — some women only, some mixed — at the London Film-makers' Co-op and at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, during Pride week (with Curt McDowell in attendance), among others.

A wry comedy on the disagreeable aspects of menstruation, in which women act out their own dramas on a California hillside, in a supermarket, in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. Menses combines both the imagery and the politics of menstruation in a fine blend of comedy and drama.

The first shot of the film is of the filmmaker, Barbara Hammer, pointing her camera to the ground and zooming into her shadow. Superimposed is an extreme close-up of a clitoris, superimposed over a series of static shots of smooth, sensual rock formations...

The fragility of the 16mm film medium, the pollution of light, and the demise of the filmmaker are explored in Optic Nerve.

Animation of photos and paper cut outs from a hike at Machu Pichu in Peru.

A comedy about a troop of shield-bearing Amazons who take over city institutions before relaxing in the country. Superdyke takes women into the streets when Barbara arms a platoon of vagina warriors with Amazon shields in an attempt to overthrow San Francisco.

Vital Signs is a multimedia collage film/video that attempts to challenge some Western constructions of death as horrible and fearful by reversing this ideology. Instead of fear or aversion, death, in the form of a skeleton, is embraced, fed, clothed, walked with, and made love to.