ONION CITY PROGRAM 10: MEMORY IS A LABOR, NOT A LUXURY | JUNE 9-13
ONION CITY PROGRAM 10: MEMORY IS A LABOR, NOT A LUXURY | JUNE 9-13
The 31st Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival is streaming online from June 9 to 13. This year’s festival includes several in-person screenings and installations. Check out the full program at Onioncityfilmfest.org! Admission is a sliding scale suggested donation.
PROGRAM 10: MEMORY IS A LABOR, NOT A LUXURY
Streaming June 9 – 13, Artist Q&A on Saturday, June 13 at 7:30 pm
Rather than a static object to be collected, the films in this program present memory as an ongoing, unruly process that flows through the movies we see, the photos we save, the songs we sing, and the donuts we eat. The filmmakers rearticulate memories with candor and a critical eye towards the fairy tales of development and assimilation.
Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox
A racist cinematic trauma passed between friends and family is remembered among the rustling of leaves and reflections of trees on an iPad screen.
Kevin B. Lee
Germany/United States, 2020, 10:00 mins
Una Favola Vera
Images and texts from mass-produced postcards, packaging, calendar booklets, books, posters, and pamphlets that were used as political propaganda devices for the invasion of Ethiopia by Fascist Italy during WWII are transformed in an ever-shifting animation.
Ezra Wube
Ethiopia, 2020, 08:00 mins
Ditat Deus Donuts
This film follows Stanlislav "Stan" Jok through various places in his home state of Arizona as he wanders around searching for the famous Desert Donuts made by the Sonoran Sisters.
Renato Umali
United States, 2021, 13:00 mins
pài-la̍k ē-poo
A half-moon on the blue sky. A quiet offering connects the unreachable world with the physical ground. An elegy for the filmmaker's grandma.
Erica Sheu
United States, 2020, 02:00
Surviving You, Always
The proposed metaphysical highs of psychedelic drugs versus the harsh actualities of concrete metropolitan life.
Morgan Quaintance
United Kingdom, 2021, 18:00
The___________World
A personal essay about connection and disconnection, in and through different realities.
Peixuan Ouyang
United States/China, 2020, 18:00 mins
