Program 8
curated by Emily Chao
▴ Miriam Campos-Quinn, Kate Dollenmayer, and Heather Trawick in person ▴
Sunday, April 2, 2023 @ 5pm
The Lab (2948 16th Street, SF, CA)
Total running time: 55 minutes
$6 - 10 sliding scale - tickets available at the door
Festival passes available for purchase here
Extended Presences
Margaux Dauby
2022 | 12.5 minutes | Belgium/Portugal | 16mm | color | sound
Extended Presences' follows several women in their seasonal work as fire watchers in Portugal. The film comes close to their breathing, to the passing of time and to solitude, from within.
-MD
witch's butter
Miriam Campos-Quinn
2022 | 3 minutes | USA | 16mm | color | sound
To approach, to commune with growing things that do not need us. Touching and never reaching, cutting, decomposing, rearranging, letting go.
-MCQ
Cycladic Thermometer
Kate Dollenmayer
2015-2017 | 7.5 minutes | Greece/USA | 16mm | color | sound
A found text from a darkroom thermometer package provides instructions for healing the wounds of this world, with help from a foosball player posing as a Cycladic figure. Spanning time and space from Bronze-Age Ano Syros to present-day Los Angeles, “…everything that we see in life is something of a shadow cast by that which we do not see. Plato was right.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
-KD
Cry When It Happens
Laida Lertxundi
2010 | 14 minutes | Spain/USA | 16mm | color | sound
Los Angeles City Hall is reflected onto the window of the Paradise Motel. It serves as an anchor for this traversal through the natural expanse of California. Here, we discover a restrained psychodrama of play, loss, and the transformation of everyday habitats. Music appears across the interiors and exteriors and speaks of limitlessness and longing.
-LL
Centre of the Cyclone
Heather Trawick
2015 | 18 minutes | Canada/USA | 16mm | color | sound
In the province of the mind there are no limits. However, in the province of the body there are definite limits not to be transcended’ (John C. Lilly). An invocation for the transcendence from the corporeal to the metaphysical, the passage is guided by marooned sailors, a moment of celestial chance, demolition derbies, and a slipping into the ether.
-HT
Margaux Dauby (1989) lives between Belgium and Portugal, where she makes films, among other activities.
Miriam Campos-Quinn is an audiovisual archivist and librarian and artist living in Oakland, California.
Kate Dollenmayer works as a film and media archivist and is in the process of relocating to the Bay Area from Los Angeles County.
Laida Lertxundi is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works between the USA and the Basque Country. Combining conceptual rigor with sensual pleasure in a process she calls Landscape Plus, her films establish parallels between landscape and the body as centers of pleasure and experience.
Her work has been exhibited at the Highline Art, New York (2023 forthcoming), Whitney Biennial New York (2012), Hammer Museum Los Angeles (2026), LIAF Biennial (2013), Biennale de Lyon (2013), Frieze Projects New York (2014) and in museums and galleries such as MoMA in New York (2022, 2017), Tate Modern, London (2016), Whitechapel Gallery, London, Angela Mewes, Berlin (2020), Joan, Los Angeles, Cibrían, San Sebastián (2021), ARKO Art Center, Seoul (2022), McEvoy Arts Foundation, San Francisco (2021), Human Resources Los Angeles (2019), MAK Schindler House (2013), ICA, London (2013), Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia (2015), CCCB (2017, 2013, 2021, 20122), PS1 MoMA (2013), Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago (2013), Baltimore Museum of Art (2013), Kunstverein Hamburg (2014) and the Havana Biennial (2015) among others.
Heather Trawick is an artist based on unceded Gabrielino-Tongva, Chumash, and Kizh lands (known as Los Angeles). She received her BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, and her MFA from CalArts. She has screened at venues such as The National Gallery of Art, Oberhausen Film Festival, The New York Film Festival, Images Festival, BAFICI, Crossroads, Lima Independente, Chicago, Brooklyn, and New York Underground Film Festivals. Her grants include Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver Film Commission and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.