Poster of A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

Plot: The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with images of light and movement that take her far from the hospital bed. A a cancer ‘thriver’ rather than ’survivor’, Barbara Hammer rides the red hills of Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, the grassy foothlls of the Big Horn in Wyoming, and leafy paths in Woodstock, New York changing illness into recovery
Release Date: Tuesday, February 10 2009
15 years ago
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Portrait of Barbara HammerBarbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer was
69 in A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
as 'Self'.
Mon, May 15 1939 –
Sat, Mar 16 2019

Crew

Portrait of Barbara HammerBarbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer was
69 in A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
as 'Director, Writer'
Mon, May 15 1939 –
Sat, Mar 16 2019
Portrait of Meredith MonkMeredith Monk
Meredith Monk was
66 in A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
as 'Original Music Composer'
Fri, Nov 20 1942