Distribution News: Summer 2023
Screenings:
A Separate Peace by Kegan McFadden is screening in the Best of Manitoba Shorts Program at Gimli International Film Festival, Thursday, July 27, at 3 PM (CT)
New Works in the VPMAC Catalogue:
Small Fires by Nic Wilson (2022)
Small Fires is a real-time video of a bouquet of flower-shaped candles burning until they extinguish themselves. There is an essay about the mythology and use of candles embedded in the subtitle track.
Land Displacement Memory- Pt. 1 Dolik’s Clothes by Ben Gorodetsky (2022)
My grandfather Dolik died on April 3, 2020. We were unable to gather for his funeral. My grandmother mailed me a box of his clothes, which I wore to reactivate the narrative, cultural, and physical threads of his life. Soviet oral histories meet site-specific dance video and aerial drone photography.
Land Displacement Memory- Pt. 2 Raiya’s Body by Ben Gorodetsky (2022)
My grandmother Raiya survived starvation as a toddler during the WWII blockade of Leningrad. This food trauma has informed every facet of her life in the 80 years since, shaping my mother, me, and even my children. Through interviews, site-specific dance, ritual, and aerial drone photography, this video seeks nourishment.
Contours by Sarah Foulkes (2023)
Contours is a compilation of YouTube makeup tutorials featuring intimate silences where the creators focus solely on applying makeup. Through uncanny ASMR-inducing sounds and occasional glitchy images, Contours locates and manipulates the gaps between intentional and unintentional moments of intimacy.
stationary (untitled) by Nicole Shimonek (2022)
“stationery (untitled)” is a performative experiment for "study untitled study" a gallery and proposal, run by Connie Chapel using Collin Zipp’s sculpture "untitled study".