There Yet

A Film Program curated by Sofia Theodore-Pierce

Live February 26, 1PM ET through Feb 28

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There Yet, a film program curated by Sofia Theodore-Pierce, will go live on Friday, February 26 at 1PM ET through Sunday, February 28 as part of dispersed holdings’ Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair programming.

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There Yet: Road trips, karaoke, intergenerational correspondence, and a reading from Bernadette Mayer’s Utopia. Five short films reread and rewrite the map.

Program:

Easy Go, 6:50 - Grace Mitchell

Vague Images at the Beginning and End of the Day, 8:00 - Carl Elsaesser

Hear Me Sometimes, 14:00 - Sofia Theodore-Pierce

News From Nowhere, 8:00 - Ben Balcom

Confrontations, 11:00 - Natasha Woods

Easy Go, Grace Mitchell

“Where’s your hole?” 

“Right here.”

Grace Mitchell is a video artist and musician residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has received her BFA & MFA in Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UW-Milwaukee. Her video work has screened both nationally & abroad at festivals such as FRACTO Berlin, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, and Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival. 

Vague Images at the Beginning and End of the Day, Carl Elsaesser

8min, Video, Super 8, 16mm, 2015

A hug/punch eulogy for all things impossible now. Vague Images is a sketch book of images and sounds from the year wrapped around a trip out to Loomis, South Dakota to find the abandoned farm where my grandfather grew up. At the same time the film is a travelogue of my frustrations and understandings of gay sexuality. The two are connected.

Carl Elsaesser: I’m interested in ways to frame my work through ritualistic and slow practices in order to think with a project - as something akin to skin or clothing that I can wear throughout my day, as I teach class, walk through the town late at night, or skype with my partner halfway across the country. My previous works have screened regularly at festivals and exhibitions including The Walker Museum of Art, Crossroads Film Festival, The Tacoma International Film Festival, Urban Video Project, Other Cinema, The Pensacola Museum of Art, and the Ann Arbor film festival where I was awarded the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist in 2016. I’ve been lucky enough to receive grants and residencies throughout my career including a Minnesota Arts Council grant, a residency with the Ellis Beauregard Foundation as well as a residency with The Squeaky Wheel Media Center. 

Films are distributed with Video Out Distribution

Hear Me Sometimes, Sofia Theodore-Pierce

14min, 16mm/digital, 2020

The monarch migration and an unearthed cassette tape correspondence form a storm speaking towards motherhood, loss, expectation, care and legacy. An elegy. An ode to uncertainty. A cry for radical optimism and a reordering of splendor. An incomplete container for obsession and wonder. A mixtape for a trip still in progress.

Sofia Theodore-Pierce is a filmmaker based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her moving image work has been exhibited at festivals and venues such as Antimatter Media Art, Alchemy Moving Image Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, and FRACTO Berlin. She currently teaches film production at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

News From Nowhere, Ben Balcom

8 min, 16mm or digital, 2020

“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not misery but refinement.” - William Morris

Ben Balcom is a filmmaker currently living and working in Milwaukee, WI. He is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and is the co-founder and co-programmer of Microlights Cinema.

Confrontations, Natasha Woods

11 min, 16mm/digital, 2018

A rope, a picture, a letter, blowing in the wind, an active resistance of the past being over and done with. A merging of landscapes and unexplained doubles. Tracing a mother’s journey from Brazil to Iowa for a better life. A documented attempt to understand relationships of personhood, memory, life, and death.

Natasha Woods (b. Iowa, 1992) is a filmmaker currently based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received her BFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2018). Her work has screened in various spaces including Athens International Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee Film, and most recently at The Wexner Art Center within the program Sequenec01, curated by radical moving image microcinema, No Evil Eye.  Woods has also shown work at The Haggerty Art Museum, Gluon Gallery, and curated visual art shows at local galleries; Real Tinsel and Facilitating Situations. She is currently the Moving Image programmer at the artist-run space, Cactus Club.