The Cancer Journals Revisited
The Cancer Journals Revisited
dir. Lana Lin
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USA
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2018
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98 min
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KINOMUZEUM, MSN
2026-05-16
12:30
The film is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience. A chorus of voices reflect upon its personal and political impact in the present moment.
“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.
- duration:
- 98 min
- country / year of production:
- USA / 2018
- director:
- Lana Lin
- cinematography:
- H. Lan Thao Lam
- production:
- Lana Lin / Many Trees Production
- selected festivals and awards:
- 2018 – FF BlackStar: Audience Award for Favorite Experimental Film, 2018 – San Diego Asian Film Festival: Best Feature Documentary
