Title: Letter from the Gone World
Filmmaker: Lydia Moyer
Lydia’s work is so smart and so thoughtful. This film deals with inner thoughts about loss returning to us what is gone in this portrait of the future in the past tense.
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Guest Curator: Jenna Maurice
Theme: Inner Thoughts
Title: The Occupant
Filmmaker: Elise Simard
I first saw this piece years ago when I was working as a pre-screener for the Nashville Film Festival. It’s highly personal, whispering to the viewer some simple secrets of life. Some of these text passages caused tiny explosions of affirmation in my head the first time I saw it, and they still ring true for me now after all this time. I hope they do the same for you.
Theme: Aging
How Mr and Mrs Gock Saved the Kumara by Felicity Morgan-Rhind
https://vimeo.com/176253524
I encountered this film as a curator for Happy Family Night Market’s film series, which explores Asian and Asian American identity expressed through food. I appreciated this film’s playful tone—older people are rarely depicted as having such energy and verve. Another perspective on the theme of Aging.
theme: Love / Heartbreak Program
From the personal to the political
Calypso, (Mexico 2016) 05:11 min
16mm B&W film, color
Dir. Annalisa Quagliata
Inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, the film creates a queer reinterpretation of the nymph Calypso who traps Odysseus on her island. This intimate and sensuous rendition unveils the characters’ emotional states through subtle gestures and contemplative portraits, delving into feelings of love, longing and abandonment.
https://vimeo.com/181045931
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guest curator: Morris Manuel Trujillo
theme: Love / Heartbreak Program
From the personal to the political
End of the existence of things (Mexico, 2013) 05:40 min
Dir. Dalia Huerta Cano
Fiction Super 8, digital output Dur: 5 min. 39 sec
The point of view of a boy and how he faces the loss of a great love. A journey that transits his mind and his sadness, that will take him through the memories and things that were left of his intense relationship, towards a liberating destiny.