The Places We Call Home

THE PLACES WE CALL HOME
Recent work by Simon Liu, Sky Hopinka, Lark Lyra Hill, Alee Peoples, Mike Stoltz and Ross Meckfessel.
8pm Tues 19 March 2024
The Brunswick Green, 313/315 Sydney Road, Brunswick.
16mm projection. $10 tix on the door.

AFW is thrilled to host a program of recent international 16mm film work, presented in-person by NYC filmmaker Ross Meckfessel — an AFW friend and co-founder of Brooklyn’s Negativeland artist-run lab. 

"The films presented in this program, all on 16mm, are made by friends and filmmakers I admire and respect. My idea was to bring together work of those close to me, but the films are also fortuitously bound by an undercurrent of shared preoccupations. Domestic and geographic spaces are lovingly captured and fragmented; gazes are turned back on themselves; personal histories are revealed and concealed. The films brim with private joy, and remind me of all the ways we engage with the places we call home." - Ross Meckfessel

FILMS:

Sneyd Green - Simon Liu (2016, 11 min, UK)
“It’s any day, any year in the house of Alan and Vera in their Post-Industrial English conurbation formerly known for their world renown pottery industry, yet on this week they are interrupted by their camera toting grandson. This May is one of moving, dancing, and gliding more softly and with greater awareness. They might have been stars, they could have been famous!
Conceived as a ditty; presented with an orchestra of loved ones, "Sneyd Green" is a handmade exploration of positive and negative space in concert with past and present yearnings.” - Simon Liu

Lore - Sky Hopinka (2019, 10 min, USA)
“Images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented, and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction in this film stemming from Hollis Frampton’s “Nostalgia”.  The voice tells a story about a not too distant past, a not too distant ruin, with traces of nostalgia articulated in terms of lore; knowledge and memory passed down and shared not from wistful loss, but as a pastiche of rumination, reproduction, and creation.” - Sky Hopinka

House Fuck - Lark Lyra Hill (2011, 5.5 min, USA)
"House Fuck is a 16mm lust letter to the textures of antiquity, the sensation of home, and the sounds of my radiator. House Fuck is about touching surfaces. House Fuck is an erotic encounter with personal space." - Lark Lyra Hill

Standing Forward Full - Alee Peoples (2020, 5.5 min, USA)
“A helter skelter is an attraction that consists of a spiral slide built around a tower. Like this movie, an attempt to exorcise an unrequited desire, which advances too quickly or stops completely. Disorienting but exciting” - Alee PeoplesHouse Fuck - Lyra Hill (2011, 5.5 min)

Kicking the Clouds - Sky Hopinka (2021, 15.5 min, USA)
“This film is a reflection on descendants and ancestors, guided by a 50 year old audio recording of my grandmother learning the Pechanga language from her mother.   After being given this tape by my mother, I interviewed her and asked about it, and recorded her ruminations on their lives and her own.  The footage is of our chosen home in Whatcom County, Washington, where my family still lives, far from our homelands in Southern California, yet a home nonetheless.” - Sky Hopinka

Something To Touch That Is Not Corruption Or Ashes Or Dust - Mike Stoltz (2020, 7 min, USA)
“Fences, zooms, blastbeats and oscillators search for possibility or perforation as walls close in. Attempting to break free from patterns and spirals as bodies become contained.” - Mike Stoltz

Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies - Alee Peoples (2015, 9 min, USA)
“A Los Angeles street film starring empty signs, radio from passing cars and human sign spinners, some with a pulse and some without.” - Alee Peoples

Estuary - Ross Meckfessel (2021, 11 min, USA)
“When you question the very nature of your physical reality it becomes much easier to see the cracks in the system. Estuary charts the emotional landscape of a time in flux. Inspired by the proliferation of computer generated social media influencers and the growing desire to document and manipulate every square inch of our external and internal landscapes, the film considers the ramifications of a world where all aspects of life are curated and malleable. As time goes on all lines blur into vector dots.” - Ross Meckfessel

PLEASE NOTE: we are not presenting in our usual last Tuesday timeslot this month but will return to last Tuesdays next month, in April!