Blending poetry, autofiction, and landscape study, these films tackle such heady topics as the queer disabled experience and our relationship to time. Featuring a smorgasbord of techniques, including eco-processing, intaglio printing, and direct animation. More than half are shot on Super8 or 16mm!
Watch this program in person at NWFF, Sep. 21 at 7pm. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person) Festival Passes and Individual Tickets are available!
Peering through a purple chain-link fence, a voyeuristic camera reveals a dancer at play. Confined by a fence, bordering a picnic table that surrounds a tree encased in concrete crosshatches, the dancer explores how this architecture impacts her movement. Like Robert Irwin's Nine Spaces Nine Trees, the public sculpture where it was filmed, External Links invites meditation on confinement and freedom. How can movement of our own bodies become a link to experiences external to ourself? An other-worldly soundtrack by composer Paul Mathew Moore raises the possibility that these links might be portals to other dimensions.
- Year2023
- Runtime4 minutes
- Languagenonverbal
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereUS
- Note(Juliet McMains, US, 2023, 4 min, nonverbal) US premiere!
- DirectorJuliet McMains
Blending poetry, autofiction, and landscape study, these films tackle such heady topics as the queer disabled experience and our relationship to time. Featuring a smorgasbord of techniques, including eco-processing, intaglio printing, and direct animation. More than half are shot on Super8 or 16mm!
Watch this program in person at NWFF, Sep. 21 at 7pm. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID (virtual AND in-person) Festival Passes and Individual Tickets are available!
Peering through a purple chain-link fence, a voyeuristic camera reveals a dancer at play. Confined by a fence, bordering a picnic table that surrounds a tree encased in concrete crosshatches, the dancer explores how this architecture impacts her movement. Like Robert Irwin's Nine Spaces Nine Trees, the public sculpture where it was filmed, External Links invites meditation on confinement and freedom. How can movement of our own bodies become a link to experiences external to ourself? An other-worldly soundtrack by composer Paul Mathew Moore raises the possibility that these links might be portals to other dimensions.
- Year2023
- Runtime4 minutes
- Languagenonverbal
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereUS
- Note(Juliet McMains, US, 2023, 4 min, nonverbal) US premiere!
- DirectorJuliet McMains