2025 FILM PROGRAM

Chelsea Theater

1129 Weaver Dairy Rd Suite AB
Chapel Hill NC 27514
United States

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Friday March 21 @7PM

Program 1: The Instability of Clouds

Films about the things that connect us together or tear us apart. Family histories stashed away in government files. Neighbors who share secrets. Portraits of the people we love and the puzzles they leave behind for us.

File No. 2304

A. S. M. Kobayashi, 2024
RT: 05:22 minutes
Canada forcibly incarcerated and dispossessed thousands of Canadian citizens of Japanese heritage, relocating them to internment camps, or in the case of the Kobayashi family, a sugar beet work farm in the Canadian Prairies. After accessing the 119 page custodial file of her great-grandfather in the National Archives of Canada, Kobayashi discovered details about her family history and their life before their internment that were previously unknown. File No. 2304 is a chapter of her interdisciplinary work, Electric Neon Clock, which explores the government’s custodial file about her family consisting of court transcripts, inventories and forms that reveal hidden narratives and family history.

I Was There

Kamila Kuc, 2024
RT: 12:25 minutes

I Was There is a palimpsest – a layered tapestry where past and present intertwine in the intimate process of activating memory and vulnerability as forms of resistance. I Was There honours the testimonial object inherited from ancestors and the living connection that binds generations in the shared pursuit of justice and healing.

Бабушка Галя и Дедушка Аркадий
Grandma Galya and Grandpa Arkadiy

Anna Kipervaser, 2023
RT: 04:24 minutes

A jovial and dreamy rumination on love. On time passing. On what we collect, what we hold on to, and how we maintain connection to home, place, to ourselves.

Mother

Wenhua Shi, 2024
RT: 04:30 minutes

This piece is a film portrait of my mother. All shot in-camera with 16mm.

Something Went Click

Caryn Cline, 2024
RT: 03:40 minutes

The origin story of my mother’s struggle with manic-depression (aka bipolar disorder): the rural prairie in the 1950s, an old boys’ club of “deciders,” a puzzling disease about which little was known.

Adulting

James Duesing, 2024
RT: 08:10 minutes

A queer valentine has a fever dream.

Lizzy

Susanna Wallin, 2024
RT: 15:00 minutes

Like a shout and a promise, a blank page and a full page, a clean disc, a new house, a pressure wave and a song but no melody yet.

Confetti

Amanda Therese Bonaiuto, 2024
RT: 04:09 minutes

Separation, fever dreaming, and a deflated celebration.

The Instability of Clouds

Zazie Ray-Trapido, 2024
RT: 15:00 minutes

Two neighbors bond after a shared traumatic event, a continuous home development creeps into nature’s threshold, and a community celebrates freedom.