Clara: Forever Summer, 2016.
30sec of 8 minutes.
The repetitive motions of the canning process quietly remap the accreted horrors of female labor that intervenes in the lifespan of a vegetable arrested in forever-summer. A circuitous wandering explores this process and confuses conceptions of time and space as seasons accumulate into undifferentiated years of feminine relation to and reinvention of natural growth cycles. The physical constraints of the domestic and embodied architectures are eventually completely subverted by the excessive act of preservation.
Screenings
2020 Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Boulder, CO. 2018 Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London, England.
2018 Arizona Underground Film Festival, Tucson, AZ. 2017 Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY.
2017 ULTRAcinema, Cholula, Mexico.
2017 Homegrown and Wild at Alchemy Film & Arts, Hawick, Scotland.
2017 Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, QC.
2017 Port Orchard Film Festival, Port Orchard, WA.
2017 Portland Underground Film Festival, Portland, OR. 2017 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV.
2017 Riverwest FemFest, Milwaukee, WI.
2016 Twisted Oyster Experimental Film-Video Fest, Chicago, IL.
2016 RE/NIGHT/LIVE/MARE, ACRE TV.
2016 Fem Tour Truck, Feminist Action Cinema Biennal Miradas de Mujeres, Spain and Portugal.
2016 Staunton International Film Festival, Staunton, VA. 2016 Women of a Thousand Fires Women of a Thousand Truths, Solo Screening, Denver, CO.
2016 Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, Bucharest, Romania.
2016 Speaking Near by, Milwaukee, WI.
Awards-
2017 Best Experimental Film, Portland Underground Film Festival, Portland, OR.
2016 Third Place, Fem Tour Truck, Feminist Action Cinema Biennal Miradas de Mujeres, Spain and Portugal.