11/09/2019
If you are interested in this film which shows at 1:20pm today Sat Nov 9 2019 (Hazard Center Mission Valley, Ultra Star), BSP is co-presenting this film and we have 10 tickets to offer you as a gift at Will Call at Ultra Star Cinemas lobby (just say Bionic Sisters Productions) first come fish served. Pacific Arts Movement SD Asian American Film Festival THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED Directed by Lana Lin
ASIAN AMERICAN PANORAMA / USA / DOCUMENTARY, EXPERIMENTAL / ENGLISH, GERMAN, SPANISH / 2019 / 98 MINS Official Selection, 2019 BAMcinemaFest
https://sdaff.org/2019/movies/cancer-journals-revisted/
"'I have cancer, I am a black feminist poet. How am I going to do this now?' Intersectional long before the term existed, and one of the foremost essayists of the 20th century, Black, le***an, and feminist poet Audre Lorde has been celebrated and adopted in countless political movements. Experimental filmmaker Lana Lin assembles over 27 women to read aloud and ruminate over the 1980 memoir The Cancer Journals, one of Lorde’s most intimate works. Within a deceivingly simple format, Lin achieves the difficult feat of reprising Lorde’s fearless vulnerability-as-pedagogy and answering The Cancer Journals’ call for criticality and collective action."
–Christina Ree
In this deeply stirring and exploratory film, 27 women revisit the 1980 memoir The Cancer Journals, by legendary Black le***an poet Audre Lorde. Applying Lorde’s words to their own illness, a new generation of women consider how a body transformed by cancer might also transform society politically...