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 “women’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.
CREDITS
Directed and Written by Alexandra Hammond
In collaboration with The Land—
Ancestral home of the Miwok people; part of the Putah Creek watershed; life place of living beings, rocks, soils, buildings and objects
Starring
Ku Chan
And Jimmy
Cinematography by Mimi Schiffman
Edited by Thomas Rivera Montes
A project from
