The Cancer Journals Revisited

At Lin’s invitation, 27 writers, artists (including Barbara Hammer), activists, healthcare advocates, and current and former patients recite the black lesbian feminist poet’s manifesto aloud for the camera, collectively dramatizing it and producing a moving oration for the screen. The film is both a critical commentary and an intimate, poetic reflection on the precarious conditions of survival within the politicized public sphere of illness. (98 mins., DCP)

The Cancer Journals Revisited is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Barbara Hammer: In This Body, the series Barbara Hammer: The Body in Film, and the presentation of Hammer’s No No Nooky T.V. in The Box.