Past Film/Video | Documentaries

The Cancer Journals Revisited

(Lana Lin, 2018)

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Jun 27, 2019 - Jun 28, 2019

Thu, Jun 27, 7:00 PM
Fri, Jun 28, 7:00 PM

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Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience is revisited and reenvisioned by experimental filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010.

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.

"I am overwhelmed by the complexity that you allow to unfold with all the innuendos of breathing, waiting, stopping, and clear speaking...The particular strengths of women of color side by side with Audre speak in a way that should be available and seen by all women."

BARBARA HAMMER

The Cancer Journals Revisited, image courtesy of the artist

SEASON SUPPORT FOR FILM/VIDEO
Rohauer Collection Foundation

SUPPORT FOR THE FILM/VIDEO STUDIO PROGRAM
Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Endowment for the Arts

GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR THE WEXNER CENTER
Greater Columbus Arts Council
Ohio Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation

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Past Exhibitions

Barbara Hammer: In This Body

SAT, JUN 1, 2019 - SUN, AUG 18, 2019

Multiple Dates/Times Available

Past Film/Video

Barbara Hammer

No No Nooky T.V. (1987)

SAT, JUN 1, 2019 - SUN, JUN 30, 2019

Multiple Dates/Times Available

Past Talks & More

Jennifer Lange and Paul Hill on Barbara Hammer

Curator Tour

THU, JUN 6, 2019

Still image from director Lana Lin's 2018 documentary Cancer Journals Revisited, screening June 27-28, 2019 at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Trailer: The Cancer Journals Revisited

Fri, Jun 21, 2019