The Cancer Journals Revisited
The Cancer Journals Revisited
“The Cancer Journals Revisited” is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today. At the invitation of filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, artists, activists, health care advocates, and current and former patients recite Lorde’s manifesto aloud on camera, collectively dramatizing it and producing an oration for the screen. The film is both a critical commentary and a poetic reflection upon the precarious conditions of survival within the intimate and politicized public sphere of illness.
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projection time:
98 min
country/year:
USA /2018
director:
Lana Lin
original language of the film:
English
pictures:
H. Lan Thao Lam
editor:
Lana Lin
production:
Lana Lin / Many Trees Production
festivals and awards:
2018 – FF BlackStar: Audience Award for Favorite Experimental Film, 2018 – San Diego Asian Film Festival: Best Feature Documentary
