Wool Sucker teaser

A film by Alexandra Hammond

Wool Sucker is an ecofeminist western about healing relationships among people, land and other living beings.

This short film tells the story of Japanese-born, woman-artist Sayako Dairiki and her cat Ku Chan, Wool Sucker examines the transformative power of so-called β€œwomen’s work” such as mending and care-taking. It also shows the power of the protagonist's relationship with both the land where she currently lives in California and her ancestral home in Japan. This is the story of an immigrant woman claiming her voice as an artist as she opens her mind to collaboration with the more than human world. (Run time, 16.3 minutes)

CREDITS

Directed and Written by Alexandra Hammond 


In collaboration with The Landβ€”
Ancestral home of the Miwok people; part of the Putah Creek watershed; life place of living beings, rocks, soils, buildings and objects 

Starring

Sayako Dairiki

Ku Chan

And Jimmy

Photography directed by Mimi Schiffman
Edited by Thomas Rivera Montes

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