Films of Barbara Hammer, May 09, 2009 | Boston LGBT Film Festival 2009

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2009

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We are pleased to welcome pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer back to the festival with her latest films A Horse is Not a Metaphor and The Diving Women of Jeju-Do. Note: Unfortunately Barbara Hammer will not be able to join us for this screening of her two latest films. The film screening will proceed as planned.

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A Horse is Not a Metaphor

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Barbara Hammer

30 min

English

USA

The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with images of light and movement that take her far from the hospital bed. A cancer ‘thriver’ rather than ’survivor’, Barbara Hammer rides the red hills of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, the grassy foothills of the Big Horn in Wyoming, and leafy paths in Woodstock, New York changing illness into recovery.

Diving Women of Jeju-Do

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Barbara Hammer

30 min

USA

South Korea

English, Korean

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