MORNING SICKNESS IN THE USA | DIVERGING FORMS | 2021 Maryland Film Fest

2021 Maryland Film Fest

DIVERGING FORMS

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This program of experimental film and video works unpacks and studies the medium of moving image itself, along with a wide array of subject matter and concepts. From stories including pregnancy, urban life, the “owl theory”, and self-affirming rituals, this group of artists inventively plays with new and compelling methods of filmmaking.

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Total Run Time: 73 minutes

This program will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

Programmed by Guest Festival Shorts Programmer, Emily Eddy.

Content Considerations: Strong language, implied violence.

In Morning Sickness in the USA, the director shares the story of her grandmother, who was quarantined in 1961 after seeing a doctor for inexplicable nausea. Having immigrated to the US from Puerto Rico, doctors suspected she had an infectious disease and put her in quarantine in a mental asylum. The reason for her nausea was later revealed to be pregnancy.

Year
2020
Runtime
3 minutes
Language
Spanish
Country
United States
Note
Spanish with English subtitles

Director
Cristine Brache
Screenwriter
Cristine Brache
Producer
Institute of Contemporary Art Commissions & Knight Foundation
Editor
Cristine Brache

8 films in package

VALID & LITERAL MAGIC

Utilizing a crystal ball to symbolize the essence of Black Girl Magic.

MORNING SICKNESS IN THE USA

In MORNING SICKNESS IN THE USA, the director shares the story of her grandmother, who was quarantined in 1961 after seeing a doctor for inexplicable nausea.

NEWS FROM NOWHERE

"Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not misery but refinement.” - William Morris

Sifting through blurred images, animal attacks, and survivalist fever dreams, two friends discover true-crime connections between the owl theory and the origin of evil on election night.

A portrait of the urban residential development as it slips into oblivion.

Closed captions available

Through its rhythmic montage and mix of observational and surreal imagery, MALEMBE forges oblique linkages between the United States and Venezuela, conveying the strange dissociation of being uprooted, of living between places.

ANOTHER HORIZON

A short experimental film that sits between documentary and narrative. About the horizon, about death.

Q&A—DIVERGING FORMS

Closed captions available

This program of experimental film and video works unpacks and studies the medium of moving image itself, along with a wide array of subject matter and concepts. From stories including pregnancy, urban life, the “owl theory”, and self-affirming rituals, this group of artists inventively plays with new and compelling methods of filmmaking.

Have an All Access Pass? Unlock your on-demand screening of this film here!

Total Run Time: 73 minutes

This program will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

Programmed by Guest Festival Shorts Programmer, Emily Eddy.

Content Considerations: Strong language, implied violence.

In Morning Sickness in the USA, the director shares the story of her grandmother, who was quarantined in 1961 after seeing a doctor for inexplicable nausea. Having immigrated to the US from Puerto Rico, doctors suspected she had an infectious disease and put her in quarantine in a mental asylum. The reason for her nausea was later revealed to be pregnancy.

Year
2020
Runtime
3 minutes
Language
Spanish
Country
United States
Note
Spanish with English subtitles

Director
Cristine Brache
Screenwriter
Cristine Brache
Producer
Institute of Contemporary Art Commissions & Knight Foundation
Editor
Cristine Brache