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Rescheduled due to Covid from 6/2019:

UPCOMING SCREENINGS IN SPAIN 2022

6/3/22

VERGE

A Suite of New Films by Amy Halpern

17 of them, 13 world premieres

VEZELAY CURTAIN 2019, 5 minutes, color, sound, digital

The wind has its own way of praying. – Randolph Pitts

SLOW FIREWORKS 2019, 2 minutes, color, silent

GINKO YELLOW 2022, 5 minutes, color, silent

MY MINK (Unowned Luxuries #2) 2019, 4 minutes, color, silent

and

UNOWNED LUXURIES #3 2020, 2 minutes, color, silent

The Unowned Luxuries films consider forms of possession – by the eyes, and thoughts of the other ways of “owning”.

# 27 2019, 3 minutes, color, silent

With Caroline McCrystal Marcantoni

NEWT LEADERS 2020, 4 ½ minutes, color, silent

Beautiful detritus of the medium

VERGE (for my sisters) 2022, 5 ½ minutes, color, silent

A horizon like a blade, consistent across California landscapes – ocean to desert and back

to ocean.

JANE, LOOKING 2020. 1 ½ minutes, color, silent

An appraising look back from a person who was camera’s object for many years.

FIRE BELLY 2021, 3 minutes, color, silent

Ancient alchemists believed that salamanders can be reborn from fire – like the Phoenix, or the Christ. But they do not survive fire, nor extreme dryness. And they do not resurrect after burning.Consequently they are at present in great danger on our polluted and heating planet.

MA SEWING 2021. 2 minutes, color, silent

My mother, now 94. Filmed more than 30 years ago.

MY DEAR EVAPORANT, 2022, 4 minutes, color, silent

Message to a friend.

I TREMBLE / 8:46 2022, 10 minutes, color, sound

An opera in the public domain. A film about duration.

“I tremble for my country when I think that god is just.” – Thomas Jefferson

EMIT A BEAM, SEE A LIGHT 2022, 3 ½ minutes, color, sound

Statement and demonstration

4 FINGERS, 5 TOES 2022, 11 minutes, color, silent

Endangered animals on an endangered medium. A heartbeat 4/4. Slow cinema, with sex scene.

HULA 2022, 6 minutes, color, sound

Abstract but obvious music notation.

Close encounters with palm trees, precise species, the Filifera washingtonia – the only native American palm – the fan palm, friend and provider for North American indigenous people.

CHABROT 2022, 3 ½ minutes, black & white, sound

A private toast.

“Faire chabrot or faire chabròl is an ancient Occitanian custom whereby at the end of a soup or broth, one adds red wine to the bowl to dilute the remnants and brings it to the lips to drink in big gulps.” – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Inspired by a random encounter with this Wikipedia entry while looking for a listing of the films of Claude CHABROL.