• Title:
• Lover Other: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

• Director:
• Barbara Hammer

• English

• USA, 55 minutes

• Venue:
• National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)

• Purchase Tickets:
• Show 1  

“I choose film and video as a medium to make the invisible, visible,” veteran experimental Filmmaker Barbara Hammer explains while telling the story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. These women, two Jewish stepsisters living together as lovers and artists, pushed the boundaries of expression in gender, sexuality and surrealist art in the 1920’s. Cahun and Moore, also heroic resisters to the Nazis occupation of the Jersey Isle during WWII, were captured and sentenced to death. Through the use of photographs, archival footage, interviews with Jersey Isle residents who knew the women, and dramatic interludes enacted from a “found Cahun script,” Hammer creates a full and flourishing picture of this remarkable story.

CO-SPONSORED BY Lilith Magazine--independent, Jewish & frankly feminist,  National Museum of Women in the Arts and Bet Mishpachah

Presented in partnership with the J’s StuartKurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian Outreach and Engagement (GLOE).

Special Guest: Barbara Hammer, director

Post-screening discussion moderated by Susan Weidman Schneider, Editor-in-Chief, Lilith Magazine

Read an interview with director Barbara Hammer on the WJFFblog.

• Purchase Tickets:
• Show 1