Barbara Hammer is well known to the audiences of the IWFFIS for her works such as Love Other: Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (2005), History Lesson (2000), and Tender Fiction (1995). Surprisingly, her latest work is on the diving women in Jeju Island! Hammer started her career as a film director during the 1960s, during which the atmosphere was full of the avant-garde art films. The avant-garde spirit of the age has sunk so deep into the 40 years of Hammer’s filmmaking so that one can say that her cinematic journey itself is an autobiographical first-person narrative, experiments on image, and mixture of genres. Thus, Diving Women of Jeju-do is an exceptional work in Barbara Hammer’s filmography. Hammer has nursed an interest in the local diving women of Jeju Island as female subjects, based on the independence the diving women have against the sea, as well as their unprecedented feminine lifestyle. Both the diving women and the lesbian film director are far away from the patriarchal female role; instead, they have their independent lifestyle and subjectivity. Having sympathized with them thus, Barbara Hammer shows her affection towards her unrelated sisters in her latest work, Diving Women of Jeju-do. (KIM Sunah)