SINGLE FRAME 2024 (2020)
April 7th, 2024
7:30pm
Petting Zoo by Daniel Robin
2019 / 11:00
In 1974 the local TV news station came into the filmmaker’s home to document and learn about Jewish Rosh Hashanah rituals. A narrative evolves, through the filmmaker’s young boy pov, about the formation of American Jewish identity, and transforms into an analogy for the current rise in anti-Semitism and nationalism in America and the world.
Lyndale by Oli Rodriguez & Victoria Stob
2018 / 24:17
LYNDALE is a story of shifting family dynamics, told through the relationship between two brothers. Shot on ten different video formats, this experimental documentary is also a story of shifting media dynamics and a record of the digital revolution of the early 2000s. The film takes place over a six year period during which filmmakers Oli Rodriguez and Victoria Stob shared a house with Rodriguez’s brother, Jeff. It begins with the conflictual relationship between Jeff and his mother, and gradually expands in scope, exploring how one family navigates childhood adversity, queer identities, conceptions of masculinity and mental illness.
Becoming by Alex Morelli
2020 / 10:45
As the US ramps up border enforcement during summer 2019, a formerly undocumented activist prepares for her naturalization test. In impressionistic scenes that link North Carolina with the Arizona borderlands, the film playfully interrogates the paradoxes of citizenship.
Riveted, Structures, Lands by Brenda Grell
2019 / 5:35
“Riveted, Structures, Lands” pieces together digital video and stop-motion animation to explore loss and memory. Blueprints pilfered from Union Pacific Railroad by my great-grandfather alongside fragments of quilt pieces sewn by my great-grandmother weave together my own personal understanding of family memories. Through interviewing my grandmother who suffers from dementia, I was able to create a broader story and appreciation of her two parents and their own modest creative expressions.
Unless You're Living It by Sarah Bliss
2019 / 8:22
A portrait of place and power in rural white Ontario that challenges the correlation between seeing and knowing, and the ravages of late-stage capitalism. Hand processing, contact printing, tinting and toning engage the film as a body that, like the residents of Mt. Forest, sustains injuries, wounds and burdens, but also has the capacity for delight, revelatory pleasure, and transformation.
With special thanks to Phil Hoffman and the 2016 Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm), where Unless You're Living It was shot and hand-processed.
A Month of Single Frames by Lynne Sachs
2019 / 14:00
Made with and for Barbara Hammer. In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had an artist residency in a shack without running water or electricity. While there, she shot film, recorded sounds and kept a journal. In 2018, Barbara began her own process of dying by revisiting her personal archive. She gave all of her images, sounds and writing from the residency to filmmaker Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with the material. Through her own filmmaking, Lynne explores Barbara’s experience of solitude. She places text on the screen as a confrontation with a somatic cinema that brings us all together in multiple spaces and times.