VEVER (FOR BARBARA)
Directed by Deborah Stratman- SHORT FILMS
- Guatemala, USA
- Documentary, Experimental, Latin American, Lesbian, Native/Indigenous Peoples, Women
- English
- 2019
- 12 mins
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shareIn this meditation on unfinished works and the creative process, Deborah Stratment resuscitates abandoned footage shot in Guatemala by Barbara Hammer, invoking Maya Deren and Haitian Voudon imagery.
Director Bio
Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman makes work that investigates power, control, and belief, considering how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. Recent projects have addressed freedom, surveillance, sinkholes, comets, exodus and faith. She lives in Chicago, where she teaches at the University of Illinois.
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