Forgotten Lives and Disappeared Worlds: Experimental Films

Forgotten Lives and Disappeared Worlds: Experimental Films

https://bampfa.org/event/forgotten-lives-and-disappeared-worlds-experimental-films

Wednesday, Oct 4, 2023

7 PM (90 mins)

BAMPFA

Tix: https://secure.bampfa.org/21547/21551

The films in this program reflect on what is seen and unseen. Histories are suggested but not explicit. The contact between humans and nature is central. Eve Heller, whose exquisite Singing in Oblivion moves between a Jewish cemetery in Vienna and images of an unknown family, reflects, “I am an echo chamber of forgotten lives and disappeared worlds, a free-floating song, heaven walks the earth.” In Emily Chao’s Light Signal, a logbook marks the perils of the sea, while a Yurok reconstruction recalls a way of life. and so it came about, Charlotte Pryce’s beautiful fairy tale, retells the story of Persephone, and a pricked finger reveals the cost of trespassing into the world of the spirits. Kevin Jerome Everson’s family takes up World War II binoculars he recast in bronze to search for Georgia’s state bird in Brown Thrasher. Heehyun Choi’s This Isn’t What It Appears reinterprets archival photographs taken by anonymous American soldiers stationed in South Korea. Nearest Neighbor, Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin’s examination of artificial intelligence in relationship to birds, is both fascinating and surprisingly comical. For Yaangna Plays Itself, Adam Piron filmed and sourced images from the Indigenous village that became Los Angeles and the nearby Los Angeles River.

Singing in Oblivion

Eve Heller, United States, 2021

Light Signal

Emily Chao, United States, 2022

and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy)

Charlotte Pryce, United States, 2023

Brown Thrasher

Kevin Jerome Everson, United States, 2020

This Isn’t What It Appears

Heehyun Choi, South Korea, United States, 2022

Nearest Neighbor

Rebecca Baron, Douglas Goodwin, United States, 2023

Yaangna Plays Itself

Adam Piron, United States, 2022