Bushwick to Brunswick: recent 16mm films carried home from NYC

The Brunswick Green, 313/315 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Sunday 12 February 2023, 8:30pm 

AFW is glad to start the screening calendar with a 16mm film screening of recent films by Ross Meckfessel, Anna Kipervaser, Mary Helena Clark, Aaron Zeghers and Zach Iannazzi. All prints loaned by the filmmakers and schlepped back late last year by an AFW member. Hauling home and sharing bounties of prints through our members’ travels is something we treasure. (Sometimes the haul goes the other way too.) We last screened Ross’s films in August 2019 but it’s our first-time projection of the other filmmakers’ work. Thanks especially to Ross and Anna for making it possible.

$10 entry

Program

Zero Length Spring by Ross Meckfessel (2021, 16 min, 16mm, b&w, sound)

“A walk through corridors and rooms culminates in a familial Reiki session - what’s underneath and within. Zero Length Spring is an apotropaic film, imprinted by rituals and symbols, basking in ruptures of the body and the earth. ASMR brush tracks and the language of self-help therapy, film surface abrasions and alleged paranormal photos, all help give shape to various unseeable forces. You’re worth it, you deserve love, you can grow.” RM

The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs by Ross Meckfessel (2018, 11 min, 16mm, colour, sound)

“Drones and GoPros survey the land while users roam digital forests, oceans, and lakes. Those clouds look compressed. That tree looks pixelated. A landscape film for the 21st century.” RM

With The Tide, with the tide by Anna Kipervaser (2022, 3 min, 16mm, colour, sound)

Orpheus (outtakes) by Mary Helena Clark (2012, 6 min, 16mm, b/w, sound)

The Dragon is the Frame by Mary Helena Clark (2014, 14 min, 16mm, colour & b/w, sound)

“An experimental detective film made in remembrance: keeping a diary, footnotes of film history, and the puzzle of depression.” MHC

Sound over Water by Mary Helena Clark (2009, 6 min, 16mm, colour, sound)

“Blue sky and blue sea meet on emulsion.” MHC

Everything Turns... by Aaron Zeghers (2016, 12 min, Super-8 finished on 16mm, colour, sound)

“A shorthand study of the mythology of numbers, from 1 to 12. Scientific tradition is adopted then eschewed for rumours, legends and defunct theories from across the ages. The camera pens a year-long record of space, movement and the passing of time in historic locations around the world. This almanac of anthropomorphic numerology is recorded in-camera onto Super 8, using open exposure photography, light painting, light table animation, paper animation, hand drawn animation and more. Just like Richter nearly 100 years ago, we will discover that everything turns, everything revolves and everything feels the deep score of time.” AZ

California Picture Book by Zach Iannazzi (2013, 12 min, 16mm, colour & b/w, silent)

We respectfully acknowledge that the land on which AFW holds its screenings was never ceded by the Kulin Nation.