The intention to put together this program came as circumstantial as my casual stumble on a programming meeting at MFW. I reveled in the prospect of getting friends into a new, fascinating cinema space to see other friends’ work. A screening for ‘friends and family’, only in-becoming, lend each other an ear an eye.
The play between stranger audience and familial film characters in most of these ‘home’ films, the sharedness of having a home and our complicated feelings towards it; the familial image is never individual, there is no helping one sees their own as they watch others.
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Together we filled the Millennium space with films about grandmothers, rituals, waning neighborhoods, and missed goodbyes.
We screened 10 films in total, with those under 10 minutes also looped on a CRT monitor installed with a couch and some decors in the gallery space, a cinema-side living room. The works were sourced from my memory of previous screenings around the city - underground and festival, supplemented by a private call among friends.
The play between stranger audience and familial film characters in most of these ‘home’ films, the sharedness of having a home and our complicated feelings towards it; the familial image is never individual, there is no helping one sees their own as they watch others.
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Together we filled the Millennium space with films about grandmothers, rituals, waning neighborhoods, and missed goodbyes.
We screened 10 films in total, with those under 10 minutes also looped on a CRT monitor installed with a couch and some decors in the gallery space, a cinema-side living room. The works were sourced from my memory of previous screenings around the city - underground and festival, supplemented by a private call among friends.