BODIES, BOUNDARIES & BORDERS

Showings

Ped Mall -Scene 1 Sun, Mar 3, 2019 2:00 PM
Event Info
Dialogue:post-screening Q&A with filmmakers in person!
Series Info
Series:Women's March
Film Info
Rating:Not Rated
Runtime:35 minutes
Director:Various
Year Released:Various
Production Country:Various
Language:English

Description

Programmed and presented FREE by Women's March Committee Member and FilmScene staff member Tristen Kopp.

This short film event showcases four University of Iowa's graduate students, PhD students and alumni. Free for the public and followed by a Q&A with all four filmmakers, this screening engages audiences with works that seek to disrupt assumptions and representations of bodies and spaces that may become naturalized.

Spencer Williams (she/her) - The Only Out: A Short Reflection on an Untidy Closet (Skype Q&A)
Hannah Bonner (she/her) - The Problem That Has No Name
P. Sam Kessie (she/her) - Moving in Tongues
Julianna Villarosa - SECRET SCREENING!

Films & Filmmakers

The Only Out: A Short Reflection on an Untidy Closet
dir. Spencer Willians (MFA)
Rutgars University - Newark (Poetry) / University of Iowa Alumni (2017)

A trans woman fights against society's questioning of identity through a series of play with barbies.

Spencer Williams is currently an MFA candidate for poetry at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of the chapbook Alien Pink (TAR Chapbook Series, 2017) and has work featured in IndieWire, Bright Wall/Dark Room and [PANK] among others. Her documentary short The Only Out premiered at the 2017 Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival and screened at the 2018 Fotofocus Biennial. She tweets mostly nonsense @burritotheif.


Moving in Tongues (5 min 21 sec; 2018)
dir. P. Sam Kessie (MFA)
University of Iowa, Cinematic Arts Department (Production)

A dancer washes up on the shore and performs a series of movements to communicate her existence.

British-Ghanian film and video maker, P. Sam Kessie creates narratives, documentaries, and hybrid projects across the United States, Europe and Africa through her production company, Sankofa Pictures. Currently an MFA candidate in Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa, Kessie's work often combines space and time with fragmented memories, forming a sense of identity disorientation where personal and sensual experiences intertwine. Her works have been screened at the Zanzibar International and Carthage Film Festival, broadcast on Iowa Public Access Television's The Film Lounge, and exhibited at the Carthage Museum, Cambodia Film Festival and Breaking Ground.

The Problem That Has No Name (6 min 40 sec; 2018)
dir. Hannah Bonner (PhD Candidate)
University of Iowa, Cinematic Arts Department (Film Studies)

An essay of women in horror films pushes back against the framework from which they are placed in.

Hannah Bonner is currently a PhD student in Film Studies at the University of Iowa. She has an MA in Film Studies from the University of Iowa and a BA in English and Honors in Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill. She has a chapter entitled "Technology, Social Media, and (Self) Surveillance in Horror Films" in the forthcoming Gender and Horror in Contemporary Films (2019) from Emerald Publishing Limited. Her essays have appeared in Bustle, VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, and Den of Geek. She has poems forthcoming in Tinderbox Poetry Journal and The Pinch Journal.

Secret Screening
dir. Julianna Villarosa (MFA)
University of Iowa, Cinematic Arts Department (Production)

A suprise screening!


Julianna Villarosa is a filmmaker and moving image artist from Texas. Her work addressses human-environment relationships. Select features and screenings include Vimeo Staff Picks, Hong Kong Arts Centre, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Film Festival, Discovery Channel, the National Part Service. She is an Iowa Arts Fellow and MFA candidate in Film & Video Production at the University of Iowa.