Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Vever (for Barbara)

Deborah STRATMAN 2019 Guatemala, USA Documentary color 12min DCP
A cross-generational binding of three filmmakers seeking alternative possibilities to power structures they’re inherently part of. The film grew out of abandoned film projects of Maya DEREN and Barbara HAMMER. A vever is a symbolic drawing used in Haitian Voodoo to invoke a Loa, or god.

Director

Deborah STRATMAN

As an artist and filmmaker, STRATMAN makes works around issues of power, control and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society are intertwined.