Vever (for Barbara)
2019 | 00:12:00 | Guatemala / United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | 16mm film
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles
Tags: Art History, Artist Portraits, Autobiography, Documentary, Expedition/Travel, Experimental Film, Feminism, Gender, Labor, Landscape, Memory, Myth, Time


A cross-generational binding of three filmmakers seeking alternative possibilities to the power structures they are inherently part of. Each woman extends her reach to a subject she is outside of. Vever grew out of the abandoned film projects of Maya Deren and Barbara Hammer. Shot at the furthest point of a motorcycle trip Hammer took to Guatemala in 1975, and laced through with Deren’s reflections of failure, encounter and initiation in 1950s Haiti.
A vever is a symbolic drawing used in Haitian Voodoo to invoke Loa, or god.
Prizes + Awards
Punto de Vista 2019, Honorable Mention
Premiere
Berlinale, Think:Film, Forum ExpandedBerlin
2019
Exhibitions + Festivals
Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival 2019
Courtisane Festival 2019
Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2019
True/False Festival 2019
VideoEx Experimental Film & Video Festival 2019
Outfest LGBTQ Film Festival 2019
LUX London 2019