GRRL HAUS CINEMA
International and Local Short Films at Brattle Theatre
Thursday, April 18th
40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Screening at 8pm
All movies shown in their original language with English subtitles
GRRL HAUS CINEMA's upcoming Brattle screening showcases short films delving into themes like identity, self-discovery, and reclaiming stories. Characters navigate journeys of self-acceptance and explore queer identity, while also grappling with blurred lines between reality and imagination. The films touch on body policing and liberation struggles, with some offering mystical journeys for narrative reclamation and connection restoration. Together, these films highlight resilience and empowerment in the face of challenges, reflecting a universal quest for understanding and agency.
40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Screening at 8pm
All movies shown in their original language with English subtitles
GRRL HAUS CINEMA's upcoming Brattle screening showcases short films delving into themes like identity, self-discovery, and reclaiming stories. Characters navigate journeys of self-acceptance and explore queer identity, while also grappling with blurred lines between reality and imagination. The films touch on body policing and liberation struggles, with some offering mystical journeys for narrative reclamation and connection restoration. Together, these films highlight resilience and empowerment in the face of challenges, reflecting a universal quest for understanding and agency.
Roya
Dir. Rosh Zeeba
Runtime 19:50
Experimental
For Roya (Farsi "dream, vision"), Zeeba uses video footage from their first and at the same time very last trip back to Iran after they had to leave the country in the 1990s. Zeeba constructs a half-documentary, half-fictional narrative that multi-voicedly reflects on the concepts of belonging and upheaval with desires, dreams, and dissolved self-constructions. Roya is an essayfilm that deals with the exoticizing gaze of a Western audience. The explanatory holds a significant role: To whom do I tell my story, to whom is it addressed?: To whom do I tell my story, to whom is it addressed? The film operates through opening up different modes of relationality between narration and experiential space. Thus, the narrative voice addresses different readings of Ornament and Orientalism in a Western context, addressing the audience directly and, in doing so, engages in an intimate conversation about localizations of queer belonging, politics of image production, the body, and the associated storytelling in direct address to the audience. (text: r.s.bigane)
Rosh Zeeba work in the fields of performance, video, film, extended media and artistic research. Born in Tehran, their studies include applied theater studies in Giessen and time-based media and film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg.
Using extended media through a performative approach, Zeeba is able to rethink storytelling and open up a realm of queer, ornamental futurism. The story tells itself and is interwoven through space, image and viewer. Zeeba engages with post-dramatic cinema, post-cyberfeminism, queer theory and research about radical image production. Themes: Crossings, glitching, irritation, intertwining, broken thread, memory and dreams, ghosts and intergenerational trauma, Persian mythology and soft world-building. Zeeba’s works and lectures have a.o. taken place in Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, Tetem (Enschede), MOM Art Space and RaumLinksRechts (HH), Balkan Can Kino (Athens), Leuphana University (Lüneburg), Kunsthaus Hamburg and Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (HH). Zeeba has participated in the Internat. Artist Exchange for "I-act", Alexandria (EGY) as a Goethe Institut Stipend. As a part of the para-institutional project Haus Of Xhaos they curate the Video Festival„Imagining Otherwise“and host a monthly podcast.
Dir. Rosh Zeeba
Runtime 19:50
Experimental
For Roya (Farsi "dream, vision"), Zeeba uses video footage from their first and at the same time very last trip back to Iran after they had to leave the country in the 1990s. Zeeba constructs a half-documentary, half-fictional narrative that multi-voicedly reflects on the concepts of belonging and upheaval with desires, dreams, and dissolved self-constructions. Roya is an essayfilm that deals with the exoticizing gaze of a Western audience. The explanatory holds a significant role: To whom do I tell my story, to whom is it addressed?: To whom do I tell my story, to whom is it addressed? The film operates through opening up different modes of relationality between narration and experiential space. Thus, the narrative voice addresses different readings of Ornament and Orientalism in a Western context, addressing the audience directly and, in doing so, engages in an intimate conversation about localizations of queer belonging, politics of image production, the body, and the associated storytelling in direct address to the audience. (text: r.s.bigane)
Rosh Zeeba work in the fields of performance, video, film, extended media and artistic research. Born in Tehran, their studies include applied theater studies in Giessen and time-based media and film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg.
Using extended media through a performative approach, Zeeba is able to rethink storytelling and open up a realm of queer, ornamental futurism. The story tells itself and is interwoven through space, image and viewer. Zeeba engages with post-dramatic cinema, post-cyberfeminism, queer theory and research about radical image production. Themes: Crossings, glitching, irritation, intertwining, broken thread, memory and dreams, ghosts and intergenerational trauma, Persian mythology and soft world-building. Zeeba’s works and lectures have a.o. taken place in Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, Tetem (Enschede), MOM Art Space and RaumLinksRechts (HH), Balkan Can Kino (Athens), Leuphana University (Lüneburg), Kunsthaus Hamburg and Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (HH). Zeeba has participated in the Internat. Artist Exchange for "I-act", Alexandria (EGY) as a Goethe Institut Stipend. As a part of the para-institutional project Haus Of Xhaos they curate the Video Festival„Imagining Otherwise“and host a monthly podcast.
Haunted Body Haunted House
Dir. Jack Gruman, Logan Puleikis
Runtime 5:15
Video Art
HAUNTED BODY - HAUNTED HOUSE explores themes surrounding the role of media in socializing gender and the resultant politicization and commodification of feminine and transgender bodies. This project draws upon the devices of commercial haunted houses and media tropes like queer camp, B-movie horror, drag performance, burlesque, and a maximalist display that is both enticing and claustrophobic. In the haunted house trope, someone’s home is taken over by outside entities. The person’s home begins as a space that is their own and is then transformed into a space of horror that they cannot escape. If our bodies are our home, then the bodies of women and transgender people are haunted. Yet, the haunting entities of these narratives are usually more trapped than the characters being haunted. A ghost cannot leave its haunt. So what haunts our bodies? Is it an outside entity or is it ourselves?
Jack is an installation and video artist with a BFA from the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, working professionally in theater projection design. As an artist, his work explores the role of media in shaping our realities, and seeks to model alternative ways of seeing, being, and interacting with the world. He is inspired by traditionally “low art” formats like TV programing, haunted houses, and queer camp. Collaboration is central to his artistic practice, and he has organized group shows at Dorchester Art Project, Artists for Humanity Epicenter, and most recently throwing a immersive video art and clubbing show at the Friend Street Project in Boston.
He is drawn to the group-show dynamic because his work can exist in immediate dialogue with others, both viewers and collaborators, and grounds it in a shared, social and historical context. He runs an artist collective VHF STUDIO in partnership with Logan Puleikis out of his artist studio space at 57 Central Street in Somerville.
Logan is a multidisciplinary, video installation artist who works in theater, lighting design, public health, and engages in advocacy efforts for the queer community and other marginalized groups. His artistic practice informs and is informed by the social issues he fights for in his career. He is drawn to haunted houses, having grown up in Orlando where he helped build them for theme parks, and is inspired by queer, camp, ballroom, and clubbing culture. He wants to see the resurgence of art and performance within the clubbing scene, and to cultivate spaces of queer joy and expression. In 2023 he was able to bring all these elements together in his group video art installation/dance party show, Haunted Body: Haunted House, organized at the Friend Street Project in partnership with Jack Gruman and featuring the work and performances of over a dozen other queer artists. He has been involved in trans advocacy work for the past 7 years, and currently sits as a consultant on the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services Community Advisory Board for transgender health outcomes. He has coauthored the national guidelines for treatment of stimulant addiction through the START model, a struggle disproportionately affecting queer and BIPOC communities. He continues to be a fierce advocate for the people he serves and speaks to the issues he fights for in all the work he makes.
Dir. Jack Gruman, Logan Puleikis
Runtime 5:15
Video Art
HAUNTED BODY - HAUNTED HOUSE explores themes surrounding the role of media in socializing gender and the resultant politicization and commodification of feminine and transgender bodies. This project draws upon the devices of commercial haunted houses and media tropes like queer camp, B-movie horror, drag performance, burlesque, and a maximalist display that is both enticing and claustrophobic. In the haunted house trope, someone’s home is taken over by outside entities. The person’s home begins as a space that is their own and is then transformed into a space of horror that they cannot escape. If our bodies are our home, then the bodies of women and transgender people are haunted. Yet, the haunting entities of these narratives are usually more trapped than the characters being haunted. A ghost cannot leave its haunt. So what haunts our bodies? Is it an outside entity or is it ourselves?
Jack is an installation and video artist with a BFA from the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, working professionally in theater projection design. As an artist, his work explores the role of media in shaping our realities, and seeks to model alternative ways of seeing, being, and interacting with the world. He is inspired by traditionally “low art” formats like TV programing, haunted houses, and queer camp. Collaboration is central to his artistic practice, and he has organized group shows at Dorchester Art Project, Artists for Humanity Epicenter, and most recently throwing a immersive video art and clubbing show at the Friend Street Project in Boston.
He is drawn to the group-show dynamic because his work can exist in immediate dialogue with others, both viewers and collaborators, and grounds it in a shared, social and historical context. He runs an artist collective VHF STUDIO in partnership with Logan Puleikis out of his artist studio space at 57 Central Street in Somerville.
Logan is a multidisciplinary, video installation artist who works in theater, lighting design, public health, and engages in advocacy efforts for the queer community and other marginalized groups. His artistic practice informs and is informed by the social issues he fights for in his career. He is drawn to haunted houses, having grown up in Orlando where he helped build them for theme parks, and is inspired by queer, camp, ballroom, and clubbing culture. He wants to see the resurgence of art and performance within the clubbing scene, and to cultivate spaces of queer joy and expression. In 2023 he was able to bring all these elements together in his group video art installation/dance party show, Haunted Body: Haunted House, organized at the Friend Street Project in partnership with Jack Gruman and featuring the work and performances of over a dozen other queer artists. He has been involved in trans advocacy work for the past 7 years, and currently sits as a consultant on the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services Community Advisory Board for transgender health outcomes. He has coauthored the national guidelines for treatment of stimulant addiction through the START model, a struggle disproportionately affecting queer and BIPOC communities. He continues to be a fierce advocate for the people he serves and speaks to the issues he fights for in all the work he makes.
The Secret Lives of Lesbians Cats
Dir. Kate Jessop
Runtime 1:38
Micro Short Animation
What do cats talk about when their owners aren’t around? What do they really think of their lesbian owners? The Secret Lives of Lesbians Cats is the new episode of Planet Pussy Willow, the feminist sci-fi development of the multi award winning comedy adult animation series Tales From Pussy Willow.
Kate Jessop is a multi award winning animation filmmaker who has had hundreds of international exhibits and has 5 international distribution deals including Shorts International and Amazon Prime. She represented the UK in the Best of Women in Film and TV and was selected for the Berlinale Talent Lab both with her portfolio as a director and with her comedy series Tales From Pussy Willow chosen for development in the Project Lab. She has worked across narrative film, comedy, illustration, live visuals, music video and motion design and has undertaken artist residencies in Berlin, Istanbul and Reykjavik. She is also the director of the Brighton International Animation Festival.
Dir. Kate Jessop
Runtime 1:38
Micro Short Animation
What do cats talk about when their owners aren’t around? What do they really think of their lesbian owners? The Secret Lives of Lesbians Cats is the new episode of Planet Pussy Willow, the feminist sci-fi development of the multi award winning comedy adult animation series Tales From Pussy Willow.
Kate Jessop is a multi award winning animation filmmaker who has had hundreds of international exhibits and has 5 international distribution deals including Shorts International and Amazon Prime. She represented the UK in the Best of Women in Film and TV and was selected for the Berlinale Talent Lab both with her portfolio as a director and with her comedy series Tales From Pussy Willow chosen for development in the Project Lab. She has worked across narrative film, comedy, illustration, live visuals, music video and motion design and has undertaken artist residencies in Berlin, Istanbul and Reykjavik. She is also the director of the Brighton International Animation Festival.
Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss
Dir. Emily Flynn
Runtime 5:00
Comedy
Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss is a slice of life short about two friends who sit in their car by the ocean on their lunch break as they make up stories about passersby.
Emily Flynn (she/her) is a Queer Nova Scotian Filmmaker and NSCAD Film graduate. Her home town of Glace Bay, Cape Breton is a large influence her voice and creative visions as a filmmaker. Her films explore the poetic nature of every day situations of the human experience.
Dir. Emily Flynn
Runtime 5:00
Comedy
Mello, Judd, & Tooth Floss is a slice of life short about two friends who sit in their car by the ocean on their lunch break as they make up stories about passersby.
Emily Flynn (she/her) is a Queer Nova Scotian Filmmaker and NSCAD Film graduate. Her home town of Glace Bay, Cape Breton is a large influence her voice and creative visions as a filmmaker. Her films explore the poetic nature of every day situations of the human experience.
I wanna know
Dir. Coco Roy
Runtime 2:05
Music Video
Music video for DEVIL HONEY aka Coco Roy.
Coco Roy is a Leo born under a full moon. When she's not working on a film you can find her screaming in Electric Street Queens.
Dir. Coco Roy
Runtime 2:05
Music Video
Music video for DEVIL HONEY aka Coco Roy.
Coco Roy is a Leo born under a full moon. When she's not working on a film you can find her screaming in Electric Street Queens.
ALL THAT'S LEFT.
Dir. Simone Holland
Runtime 13:01
Experimental
A surreal look into the perception of existence, Mercedes, loses themselves through the many people that seamlessly enter and exit their universe. Thrown into the maze that is their mind, she struggles to differentiate reality from her imagination. Awakening their demons, she embraces the chaos, but is she truly in control?
With their storytelling grounded in reality, Simone uses surrealism as their lens. As a 2021 EMMY Award winning Camera Operator and former 2022 ROTATE Fellow, at YouTube and Wieden + Kennedy, Simone continues to push boundaries. She directed and was cinematographer for projects for McDonald’s, Red Bull, Anheuser-Busch Global and Bustle x HIlton, as well as for artists like Jazmine Sullivan, Tone Stith, Adi Oasis and Jamila Woods. As a creative director, Simone has worked with Mcdonald's, Nike, Duracell, and the 2021 BET AWARDS. Cross-pollinating her creative versatility, Simone applies her multi-disciplinary technical experience to her directorial and creative work as a current 2022 BlackStar Philadelphia Filmmaker Fellowship, Directorial Fellow.
Dir. Simone Holland
Runtime 13:01
Experimental
A surreal look into the perception of existence, Mercedes, loses themselves through the many people that seamlessly enter and exit their universe. Thrown into the maze that is their mind, she struggles to differentiate reality from her imagination. Awakening their demons, she embraces the chaos, but is she truly in control?
With their storytelling grounded in reality, Simone uses surrealism as their lens. As a 2021 EMMY Award winning Camera Operator and former 2022 ROTATE Fellow, at YouTube and Wieden + Kennedy, Simone continues to push boundaries. She directed and was cinematographer for projects for McDonald’s, Red Bull, Anheuser-Busch Global and Bustle x HIlton, as well as for artists like Jazmine Sullivan, Tone Stith, Adi Oasis and Jamila Woods. As a creative director, Simone has worked with Mcdonald's, Nike, Duracell, and the 2021 BET AWARDS. Cross-pollinating her creative versatility, Simone applies her multi-disciplinary technical experience to her directorial and creative work as a current 2022 BlackStar Philadelphia Filmmaker Fellowship, Directorial Fellow.
Vile Vortex
Dir. Jenny Plante
Runtime 3:03
Experimental
A brief history of the Bermuda Triangle.
Jenny is a filmmaker, screenwriter and artist living in New Hampshire. She has screened her work in NYC, Boston, Finland, London, Slovenia, Berlin and Los Angeles. Her work is largely satirical with elements of camp and heavy doses of pop culture and film history.
Dir. Jenny Plante
Runtime 3:03
Experimental
A brief history of the Bermuda Triangle.
Jenny is a filmmaker, screenwriter and artist living in New Hampshire. She has screened her work in NYC, Boston, Finland, London, Slovenia, Berlin and Los Angeles. Her work is largely satirical with elements of camp and heavy doses of pop culture and film history.
Ghost Town
Dir. Molly Muse
Runtime 14:58
Comedy
Two friends lumber into a ghost town to break a curse.
Molly made her stage debut as “piece of trash” in a grade school play about recycling. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts from Portland State University. She won the Irene Ryan Award for “Best Supporting Actress” for her role in Crimes of the Heart, originated the role of Mable in Ishmael Reed's play The Final Version at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NY, and received a grant to direct Philip Ridley’s play The Pitchfork Disney in Portland, Oregon. Molly played Mona in the award-winning feature film, Birds of Neptune. As a film director, Molly won “Best First Feature” at the Arizona International Film Festival for Jump the Fence: Brazil; she produced the film with a crowdfunding campaign and then sold it to The Ovation Channel. Molly co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in Wrap Me in a Sheet with partner-in-film, Britt Harris. The film won Best Drama at the 2023 Dam Short Film Festival and Best Dramatic Short at The Arizona International Film Festival. Molly also directed, Ghost Town which just hit the festival circuit, winning Best Narrative Short at The Four Corners Film Festival.
Dir. Molly Muse
Runtime 14:58
Comedy
Two friends lumber into a ghost town to break a curse.
Molly made her stage debut as “piece of trash” in a grade school play about recycling. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts from Portland State University. She won the Irene Ryan Award for “Best Supporting Actress” for her role in Crimes of the Heart, originated the role of Mable in Ishmael Reed's play The Final Version at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NY, and received a grant to direct Philip Ridley’s play The Pitchfork Disney in Portland, Oregon. Molly played Mona in the award-winning feature film, Birds of Neptune. As a film director, Molly won “Best First Feature” at the Arizona International Film Festival for Jump the Fence: Brazil; she produced the film with a crowdfunding campaign and then sold it to The Ovation Channel. Molly co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in Wrap Me in a Sheet with partner-in-film, Britt Harris. The film won Best Drama at the 2023 Dam Short Film Festival and Best Dramatic Short at The Arizona International Film Festival. Molly also directed, Ghost Town which just hit the festival circuit, winning Best Narrative Short at The Four Corners Film Festival.
Made For Duty Overseas
Dir. Katie King
Runtime 4:37
Animated
Made For Duty Overseas is a noir-ish tale centred around a packet of menthol vogue cigarettes, moving between Sri Lanka and the UK. Intrigued by the allure of this woman’s identity, our narrator finds herself enticed into an addiction. Made For Duty Overseas explores the allure of aesthetic distractions.
Katie King is a textile artist working with 2D and stop motion animation techniques. She graduates in September 2023 with a masters in Animation from Royal College of Art, London. She grew up between Glastonbury, Somerset and Vancouver, Canada before studying Religion, Philosophy & Ethics at King’s College, London and remaining in London since for work.
Dir. Katie King
Runtime 4:37
Animated
Made For Duty Overseas is a noir-ish tale centred around a packet of menthol vogue cigarettes, moving between Sri Lanka and the UK. Intrigued by the allure of this woman’s identity, our narrator finds herself enticed into an addiction. Made For Duty Overseas explores the allure of aesthetic distractions.
Katie King is a textile artist working with 2D and stop motion animation techniques. She graduates in September 2023 with a masters in Animation from Royal College of Art, London. She grew up between Glastonbury, Somerset and Vancouver, Canada before studying Religion, Philosophy & Ethics at King’s College, London and remaining in London since for work.
Trace My Body
Dir. Yue Hua
Runtime 3:10
Experimental
A film about the female gaze and self-acceptance. In spring 2023, a physical illness forced me to re-examine my relationship with my body. Scars, spots, skin, hair, and my unflattering voice, everything belongs to my body.
Shoot and direct animation on 16mm film.
Content warning: Nudity
Yue Hua/华越 is an filmmaker and multimedia artist, born and raised in China, currently based in Boston, MA. Yue’s art explores themes like spirit-body relationships, searching for belonging, and the female perspective. She teaches 16mm film production at Emerson College and is a member of the AgX film collective.
Dir. Yue Hua
Runtime 3:10
Experimental
A film about the female gaze and self-acceptance. In spring 2023, a physical illness forced me to re-examine my relationship with my body. Scars, spots, skin, hair, and my unflattering voice, everything belongs to my body.
Shoot and direct animation on 16mm film.
Content warning: Nudity
Yue Hua/华越 is an filmmaker and multimedia artist, born and raised in China, currently based in Boston, MA. Yue’s art explores themes like spirit-body relationships, searching for belonging, and the female perspective. She teaches 16mm film production at Emerson College and is a member of the AgX film collective.
When i____
Dir. Janella Mele
Runtime 2:24
Animated Experimental
When i___ is an animated video and Virtual Reality experience that was created using a combination of software including Unity, Adobe Premiere, Dragonframe and Maya. Much of the footage comes from Janella’s VR game in which the player walks through the five stages of grief. She reimagined this into the film as part of her healing process during a sexual trauma survivors’ group.
Janella Mele is an international Multimedia artist whose works and short films have been exhibited in Berlin, Mexico, Boston, the ICA, MFA, Art Basel Miami Beach, and California. She studied animation at the Museum School of Fine Arts at Tufts and graduated with a BFA in 2018. Janella performed the first Self Tattoo Performance at Galería Monet in Tampico, Mexico during her artist residency and Solo Exhibition in May 2022. She received her tattoo apprentice license in February 2022 and practices at Ink Jam Tattoo Studio in Arlington, MA. Janella explores abstractions, fine line detail, dot work, and has a versatile portfolio that spans from a respect for the history of tattooing to innovations of new styles.
Dir. Janella Mele
Runtime 2:24
Animated Experimental
When i___ is an animated video and Virtual Reality experience that was created using a combination of software including Unity, Adobe Premiere, Dragonframe and Maya. Much of the footage comes from Janella’s VR game in which the player walks through the five stages of grief. She reimagined this into the film as part of her healing process during a sexual trauma survivors’ group.
Janella Mele is an international Multimedia artist whose works and short films have been exhibited in Berlin, Mexico, Boston, the ICA, MFA, Art Basel Miami Beach, and California. She studied animation at the Museum School of Fine Arts at Tufts and graduated with a BFA in 2018. Janella performed the first Self Tattoo Performance at Galería Monet in Tampico, Mexico during her artist residency and Solo Exhibition in May 2022. She received her tattoo apprentice license in February 2022 and practices at Ink Jam Tattoo Studio in Arlington, MA. Janella explores abstractions, fine line detail, dot work, and has a versatile portfolio that spans from a respect for the history of tattooing to innovations of new styles.
Triskele & The Monsters Tools : A Solstice Invocation of Medusa Consciousness
Dir. Ash Capachione, Maria Molteni
Runtime 6:00
Performance Art / Video Art
On the Summer Solstice, three Gorgons, united by a Lunar Priestess, journey to the center of the spiraling tri-limbed labyrinth, an Anti-monument honoring non-dual, cyclical expansion. Calling upon the beaming sun, salty ocean, and three conjunction planetary bodies – the Moon, Venus, and Mars – they invoke the spirit of Medusa Consciousness and awareness that recent reflections on her myth have reawakened. Centering reclaimed narratives of Monsterized, Othered beings, their collective spell aims to restore connections of the mind and heart, land and sea, welcoming a fully embodied Medusa into the space left vacant by the heartless, beheaded Boston Columbus monument.
Ash Capachione (they/them) shot and edited/composed the film, complete with original sound and digital animation. Capachione is a San Diego-based audio/visual artist, motion designer and filmmaker.
Maria Molteni (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and mystic, formally trained in painting, printmaking, and dance. Their hand-painted public groundworks- also called horizontal/anti- monuments, shape-shifting labyrinths, and altars to the sky- provide spaces for somatic spellwork and multi-media collaboration with the living and dead. Molteni works between MA / TN and is actively exhibiting internationally.
Dir. Ash Capachione, Maria Molteni
Runtime 6:00
Performance Art / Video Art
On the Summer Solstice, three Gorgons, united by a Lunar Priestess, journey to the center of the spiraling tri-limbed labyrinth, an Anti-monument honoring non-dual, cyclical expansion. Calling upon the beaming sun, salty ocean, and three conjunction planetary bodies – the Moon, Venus, and Mars – they invoke the spirit of Medusa Consciousness and awareness that recent reflections on her myth have reawakened. Centering reclaimed narratives of Monsterized, Othered beings, their collective spell aims to restore connections of the mind and heart, land and sea, welcoming a fully embodied Medusa into the space left vacant by the heartless, beheaded Boston Columbus monument.
Ash Capachione (they/them) shot and edited/composed the film, complete with original sound and digital animation. Capachione is a San Diego-based audio/visual artist, motion designer and filmmaker.
Maria Molteni (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and mystic, formally trained in painting, printmaking, and dance. Their hand-painted public groundworks- also called horizontal/anti- monuments, shape-shifting labyrinths, and altars to the sky- provide spaces for somatic spellwork and multi-media collaboration with the living and dead. Molteni works between MA / TN and is actively exhibiting internationally.
How we have loved
Dir. EE Eelio Kihlstrand
Runtime 17:27
Drama
Butch Jane lives alone with her memories of a long lost life. Dilo’s application for asylum is refused and he has to leave his full life in the city and move in with Jane. The house’s past starts to make itself known.
EE Kihlstrand is a film director based in Stockholm, Sweden, and 'How we have loved' is their first fiction film. EE's interest in filmmaking started when they lived in Montréal, Quebec and they helped a friend making her first documentary. EE studied documentary film on the Swedish island of Öland and proceeded with a bachelor’s degree in film directing from Stockholm University of the Arts. EE’s storytelling
focuses on underrepresented and/or marginalized perspectives. They are now working on a documentary about young LGBTQI-persons with experience of migration.
Dir. EE Eelio Kihlstrand
Runtime 17:27
Drama
Butch Jane lives alone with her memories of a long lost life. Dilo’s application for asylum is refused and he has to leave his full life in the city and move in with Jane. The house’s past starts to make itself known.
EE Kihlstrand is a film director based in Stockholm, Sweden, and 'How we have loved' is their first fiction film. EE's interest in filmmaking started when they lived in Montréal, Quebec and they helped a friend making her first documentary. EE studied documentary film on the Swedish island of Öland and proceeded with a bachelor’s degree in film directing from Stockholm University of the Arts. EE’s storytelling
focuses on underrepresented and/or marginalized perspectives. They are now working on a documentary about young LGBTQI-persons with experience of migration.
Upcoming screenings
April 29th at LOOPHOLE
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