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Marvelous Movie Mondays: End Reel

EPFC | January 27th, 2020

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Emily Chao

Bodies are put into motion and melt into textures in the final film of the RITUALS AND RUMINATIONS series with the appropriately titled End Reel by Julie Murray. In between the start/stops of Murray’s hand cranked rewinds we watch as the digital and analog moving image technologies compromise the narrative of an anonymous Hong Kong action movie. The decayed 35mm print is given a second life in this observant piece by Murray.

https://vimeo.com/102600131

Marvelous Movie Mondays: Rituals and Ruminations

EPFC | January 15th, 2020

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Emily Chao

This week’s pick for the theme RITUALS AND RUMINATIONS is Lee Anne Schmitt’s haunting piece, womannightfilm. Schmitt uses the technique of rephotography to process trauma as a recurring experience.

“Shot on 16mm over a number of years, the film rephotographs and rephotographs, until the image itself is a ghost.”

https://vimeo.com/107892302
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Marvelous Movie Mondays: Landscape Series #1

EPFC | January 9th, 2020

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Emily Chao

The theme of this month is RITUALS AND RUMINATIONS—filmmaking as a compulsive act, a habit, a ritual. The films in this series fixate, almost obsessively, on found images often with mystifying results. Past lives are recalled, histories are left half buried, unresolved.

We begin this month’s series with Landscape Series #1, a film by Nguyen Trinh Thi. Comprised of seventy 35mm slides from Vietnamese newspaper reports. Each photo seems to suggest landscape as subject or in Nguyen’s words, “as the silent witness of history.”