2024 FILM PROGRAM

Chelsea Theater

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

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Sunday March 3 @1:30PM

Program 4: We’ll Go Down The Abyss in Silence

Rituals to ward off the demons or lead us through the abyss. Incantations in the face of dropped frames and radioactivity. If the choice is between love or religion, what are you waiting for?

Ashes of Rose

Sasha Waters, 2023
RT: 11:30 minutes

This movie is about loving things that are embarrassing and people who are inappropriate.  It’s an essay film reflection on popular trash; football parties; older men; adolescent desire and the outrageous yet mundane humiliations of being a teenage girl in the 1980s.  With sound design by Kevin T. Allen and performance cameos by filmmakers Roger Beebe and Jason Livingston.

Her Backyard / My Front Window

Billy Palumbo, 2023
RT: 3:36 minutes

Through the thresholds and portals of memory, spaces and time blur and shatter.

Hey Sweet Pea

Alee Peoples, 2023
RT: 4:08 minutes

Parental aging and an existential wave collide together in funny ways. Hey Sweet Pea borrows scenes from the 1984 children’s sci-fi movie The Neverending Story to process our collective grief.

Three Mystics

Ioanna Filippopoulou, 2023
RT: 8:34 minutes

Three mystics, poetess Rabia Al Basra, writer Marguerite Porete and poetess Akka Mahadevi are each making a ritual.

Those women refused the life they were forced to live and devoted themselves to their Gods. Their devotional spirit is an indication of a somekind erotic union with the Divine giving extended dimensions to the spirituality of the Female, which is usually related to the archetype of the Mother.

We’ll Go Down The Abyss in Silence

Vincent Guilbert, 2023
RT: 11:00 minutes

An animal, which appears to be a fox, was seen outside the containment of the Fukushima nuclear power plant’s No. 2 reactor, where radiation levels can reach more than 10 sieverts per hour. It appeared in front of surveillance cameras on the morning of December 21, 2015, and spent 7 to 8 minutes there before disappearing.

Evocation

Richard & Lily Ashrowan, 2023
RT: 3:22 minutes

A ritual evocation set on Dartmoor, through stone and water, the senses unfolding, drawing inward, and creating. The inner life embodied and manifesting as divine play, the Lila of Hindu philosophy, the Lila who was my teacher, now reaching down through the ancestral line in father and daughter. Shot on 16mm film.

Otherhood

Deborah Stratman, 2023
RT: 3:00minutes

Mother and child confront the other.  Meanwhile, some ladies are thinking.

Poem For Three Voices

Lan Anh Chu, 2023
RT: 02:44 minutes

The film weaves “Poem for Three Voices” by Bhanu Kapil and dropped frames of a VHS tape of “New York: A Documentary Film” by Ric Burns to comment on the tape’s decaying state and somatic experience of living in New York.

Contractions

Lynne Sachs, 2024
RT: 10:00 minutes

What happens when women no longer have control of their bodies?

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ended a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion in the United States. “Contractions” takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic. We listen to an obstetrician and a reproductive rights activist who movingly lay out these vital issues. We watch 14 women and their male allies who witness and perform with their backs to the camera. In a place where a woman can no longer make decisions about her own body, they “speak” with the full force of their collective presence.

This film distributed by Kino Rebelde.