Film
Migrating Forms Program 2
- 9:45PM
Directed by Gabriel Abrantes
2012, 17min
Three young Haitian girls wander through colonial ruins, stopping to hear a perverse folktale on their way to a staging of Aristophanes’ The Birds in the town square. “A dizzying artistic feat.” –Cinema Scope
Directed by Anne Charlotte Robertson
1982, 26min
In this harrowing self-portrait, Super-8 master Anne Charlotte Robertson lucidly narrates footage of the daily routines and rituals that governed her last breakdown.
Directed by Laida Lertxundi
2013, 8min
“In the town of Utskor in the region of Bø, northern Norway, we find memories of a political past intertwining with domestic, familial moments during the midnight sun.”—filmmaker Laida Lertxundi
Directed by James Richards
2012, 16min
“The video examines the role of intimacy in relation to desire and physical proximity. Using images and sounds that are surrogates for the liquidity or porosity of the body, of being inside and outside, it slips between the sensual image and its abstraction.”—Lux
Directed by Anne Charlotte Robertson
1994, 27min
Possibly Anne Charlotte Robertson’s most devastating film, Emily Died chronicles the death of her young niece. Set in the spring, Robertson seeks solace in her garden as Emily’s death sends her spinning toward another breakdown.