SHORTS 1: THE ONE WITH THE TONGUE
Logan Theatre
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Description
Participate in My Relaxed StateKatya Yakubov20 min., 2016, USAA hybrid, docu-fiction film—this fractured narrative follows one woman's coming to terms with the elusive mind-body split. Challenging the validity of alternative as well as Western medicine, this film turns its attention instead to the moments in between therapy, and the possibilities that the strange encounter with another can bring.
Trust FallJeanne Donegan and Eileen Rae Walsh4 min., 2015, USAAn experimental video using found footage that cycles through evocative imagery to elicit sensations of fear versus pleasure. This imagery is laid over the sound of the two artists gasping for breath, a sound that remains ambiguous as to whether it is induced by danger or excitement.
Emerald Ice
Jesseca Ynez Simmons14 min., 2016, USAEmerald Ice is a cinematic odyssey exploring the mind of the American poet Diane Wakoski. This hybrid documentary, or docufantasy, brings to the screen her work--the sprawling beauty that is Diane's emotional spectrum.
Lingua AbsentiaKate Raney and Jeremy Bessoff10 min., 2017, USAAn experiment in two contrasting points of view: A mother assists her daughter with severe schizophrenia undergoing a massive surgery to replace her tongue.
Gardening At NightShayna Connelly12 min., 2016, USAWaiting for confirmation of Anne’s death creates an unbearable state of regret, sadness and anticipation in Samantha. That night she tames her neglected garden and finds a way to say good-bye and to help her friend come to terms with death.
The Pier [Like Mending Glass]Anna Hogg26 min., 2016, USAThe filmmaker’s grandfather, suffering from Alzheimer’s, remembers, obsessively, an episode from his youth: an elegant young woman climbs over the railing of the pier and jumps into the water; he saves her. The old man’s speech becomes more confused; the women of his family repeat the story, now become mythical, using re-speaking techniques inspired by "verbatim theater”; the filmmaker reconstructs the scene, casting a young woman whose blonde chignon brings to mind Vertigo’s Madeleine. Yet the moment comes when the grandfather has to be brought to a nursing home, where, gradually, he fades away. His mind, his breathing, fly away with the passing time, along the flowing water. The last image that stays with him, is that of the pier.
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Start:
2017-06-01T18:30:00-05:00
End:
2017-06-01T20:30:00-05:00
Category
Film
Tickets
Tongue General Admission
10.0
USD
78