Barbara Hammer is a visual artist working primarily in film and video and has made over 80 works in a career that spans 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema. Her documentaries tell the stories of marginalized peoples who have been hidden from history and are often essay films that are multi-leveled and engage audiences viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make social change. 

Her most recent work is an experimental film on cancer and hope, <A Horse Is Not A Metaphor(2008)>, which she premiered in Berlinale2009 and won Teddy Award. It has its first screening in Korea on this series of 'Retrospective of Barbara Hammer'.