RestFest Film Festival 2026

Shorts Block: Touch [AD] [CC]/[OC]

Expired August 23, 2024 6:59 AM
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Total Runtime: 57min 31s

Content Warnings:

  • Doulas of the of the Computer Age: Discussion of exploitation of workers and disease
  • Spoons (After Carolyn Lazard): Discussion of disability
  • Vestiges: Images of animal abuse; Medical procedures performed without consent


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Vestiges

Drawing from research on early computer chip manufacturing, Vestiges tells the story of a woman who finds an archive of bizarre photographs and begins to be haunted by its images. Vestiges uses similar formal structures as Chris Marker's La Jeteé, using mostly still images to explore ideas of collective memory and the exploitation of women’s, and in particular women of color’s, labor.


Online Premiere


Artist Bio: I tell stories and create scenes about technology, labor, and the future. Sometimes what I make is analog and stationary, sometimes it’s digital and time based. I take my visual cues from science fiction and horror, and use the inefficient, grotesque, and surreal to counteract dominant narratives of technological progress and neoliberal futurity. https://a-tbd.com/ @ann_tbd

  • Runtime
    15 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    Online Premiere
  • Genre
    Narrative Short Film, Experimental, Sci-fi
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Content Warning
    Images of animal abuse; Medical procedures performed without consent.
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  • Director
    ann haeyoung
  • Screenwriter
    ann haeyoung
  • Cast
    Alma Alvarado, Samuel Whitehilll, & Haan Lee
  • Music
    Chloe Alexandra Thompson
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