A Horse is Not a Metaphor

Celebrated lesbian feminist filmmaker Barbara Hammer returns to her experimental roots in this deeply personal and multi-layered film about her recent battle with ovarian cancer. The film blends stark video diary footage with poetic retreats into the nature to explore her ever-evolving connection to the physical world during chemotherapy and recovery. Accompanied by a magnificently haunting score by Meredith Monk, A Horse is Not a Metaphor is a spiritual and aesthetic tour-de-force that acknowledges the fragility of life as well as the transformational possibilities of hope and healing within us all.

Diving Women of Jeju-do

For hundreds of years women on the South Korean island of Jeju-do have sustained themselves by diving to the ocean floor without breathing apparatus to collect shellfish, octopus, and seaweed. In this fascinating portrait, Hammer dives with the women and records this disappearing ancient women's tradition.