Erik Hammen's films have played on the big screen at festivals and art house cinemas in the US and beyond.

Other works include: curator and distributer of 4 film series Cinema Minneapolis. Camera and edit for Alternative Tentacles punk band Redshift music video, and a variety of work in music, theater, and underground comix.

Hammen recieved the Lightpress Grant from the Interbay Cinema Society (2017) and the New Model Edit (2015) and Roll Camera (2014) grants from the Northwest Film Forum.

His work has been translated into Spanish and Korean.