STRANGELY INTIMATE THIS SPACE
Intensely intimate space is carved out across five films and videos, engaging concepts of representation, transformation, domesticity and desire. Challenging yet brazenly open, the films in this block deal in radical contrasts between the extreme and the banal. It’s about how we inhabit our skin as much as how we inhabit space; it’s about turning inwards, and it’s about how we use our lovers. New work from Canada and the United States.
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Ambrosia dir. Janelle VanderKelen
2015 | US | 4 min | video | Manitoban premiere
Inspired by the transformations in Ovid’s Metamorphoses that linger as explanations for why and how the world is, this piece transposes the notion of transition and transmutation across imagery of hybrid statues and a cleansing of hands with honey. -JV
Between Relating and Use dir. Nazli Dinçel
2017 | TR/US | 9 min | 16mm | Canadian premiere
Borrowing words from “Transnational Object” “Transitional Object”, the film is an attempt to ethically make work in a foreign land. Transitioning from assuming the position of an ethnographer, we turn and explore inwards – on how we use our lovers. -ND
How to Recreate Human Cremated Remains dir. Zorya Arrow
2017 | CA | 3 min | video | World premiere
An oddly content heavy, strange and experimental YouTube tutorial. -ZA
Palmerston Blvd dir. Dan Browne
2017 | CA | 15 min | video | Manitoban premiere
An intimate portrait of a bay window recorded over the course of a year. Gradual shifts in the interior and exterior environments mark the passing of the seasons, a slow dance of objects and light juxtaposed by rapid bodies and the urban landscape. -DB
Strangely Ordinary This Devotion dirs. Dani + Sheilah Restack
2018 | US | 27 min | video | Manitoban premiere
Strangely Ordinary This Devotion is a visceral exploration of feral domesticity, queer desire, and fantasy in a world under the threat of climate change. Utilizing and exploding archetypes, the film offers a radical approach to collaboration and the conception of family. Dani and Sheilah collect and arrange images and moments that are at once peculiar and banal, precious and disturbing, creating resonance and contrast through experimental modes of storytelling. -VDB
In Association with the Winnipeg Film Group
