Flowers and Bodies (Departures Shorts) / Indie Memphis Film Festival | Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker

Flowers and Bodies (Departures Shorts)
Indie Memphis Film Festival
Screening on October 22, 2022
https://imff22.indiememphis.org/schedule/631e94be3fcb9c0096f815db

WHEN WE ARRIVE AS FLOWERS

Diovanna, a dancer realizes her transfemme identity through a choreographic journey of self-discovery, celebration, and the poetic metaphor of a flower coming to bloom.

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[Available October 22, 12:01 AM – October 24, 11:59 PM, 2022] Stream online…

Sat, Oct 22nd, 1:15 PM @ Studio on the Square

Year: 2022
Runtime: 5 minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Director: Susan C OBrien
Screenwriter: Diovanna LaBeija
Producer:Susan O’Brien, Elizabeth Raia, Giselle Byrd, Margaret Montavon

FREE NOIR PAPILLON

A short dance film about a mother’s relationship to her pregnancy, as she deals with fear and hope about bringing a black baby boy into the world in 2020.

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[Available October 22, 12:01 AM – October 24, 11:59 PM, 2022] Stream online…

Sat, Oct 22nd, 1:15 PM @ Studio on the Square

Year: 2022
Runtime: 11 minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Director: Lev Omelchenko
Screenwriter: Lev Omelchenko
Producer: Kevin Wall
Cinematographer: Amber L. N. Bournett

PANDROG

Pandrog is an exploration of the subversiveness of the gender binary within the confines of Blackness. It is about Black people escaping the terms and identities created by western imperialism.

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[Available October 22, 12:01 AM – October 24, 11:59 PM, 2022] Stream online…

Sat, Oct 22nd, 1:15 PM @ Studio on the Square

Year: 2022
Runtime: 1 minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Director: Jard Lerebours
Screenwriter: Jard Lerebours
Cast: Oluseyifunmi Akinlade
Cinematographer: Oluseyifunmi Akinlade

DUE NORTH

A dance film about life, embodiment of the wild.

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[Available October 22, 12:01 AM – October 24, 11:59 PM, 2022] Stream online…

Sat, Oct 22nd, 1:15 PM @ Studio on the Square

Year: 2022
Runtime: 23 minutes
Language: No Dialogue
Country: Canada
Director: Chantal Caron
Screenwriter: Chantal Caron
Producer: Chantal Caron
Cinematographer: Richard Saint-Pierre
Editor: Mirenda Ouellet
Music: Pierre-Marc Beaudoin, Vivianne Audet

MAY WE KNOW OUR OWN STRENGTH

May We Know Our Own Strength’ is an abstract and expressionistic narrative document centered around artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s similarly-titled piece exploring collective healing after sexual assault within AAPI communities, created tragically in the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings. In the spirit of the installation itself, ‘May We Know Our Own Strength’ recreates the process of trauma, the hurdles of healing, and the strength that can be found in sharing and community.

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[Available October 22, 12:01 AM – October 24, 11:59 PM, 2022] Stream online…

Sat, Oct 22nd, 1:15 PM @ Studio on the Square

Year: 2021
Runtime: 6 minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Director: Jih-E Peng
Producer: Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Jih-E Peng,
Editor: Emily Nine
Music: Sugar Vendil

INVENTORY

A living inventory of the body.

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[Available October 22, 12:01 AM – October 24, 11:59 PM, 2022] Stream online…

Sat, Oct 22nd, 1:15 PM @ Studio on the Square

Year: 2021
Runtime: 3 minutes
Country: United States
Director: Bailey Plumley

IN BEAUTY IT IS UNFINISHED

A voice creates a meditative portrait of two tropical landscapes-separated by 100 miles of ocean-and two men dancing at twilight; the distance of their bodies both measured and infinite.

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[Available October 22, 12:01 AM – October 24, 11:59 PM, 2022] Stream online…

Sat, Oct 22nd, 1:15 PM @ Studio on the Square

Year: 2022
Runtime: 16 minutes
Language: English, Spanish
Country: United States
Director: Greko Sklavounos
Screenwriter: Greko Sklavounos
Producer: Olivia Lloyd, Ale Marie Odriozola

THE PAST

Two people mourn an unsaid tragedy in this silent play in cinematic narrativity and melodrama, telling an elegiac tale in portraiture.

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[Available October 22, 12:01 AM – October 24, 11:59 PM, 2022] Stream online…

Sat, Oct 22nd, 1:15 PM @ Studio on the Square

Year: 2021
Runtime: 5 minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Director: Rajee Samarasinghe
Screenwriter: Rajee Samarasinghe
Producer: Rajee Samarasinghe
Cast: Paige McGhee, Bobbi Yost

MAYA AT 24

Lynne Sachs films her daughter Maya at 6, 16 and 24. At each iteration, Maya runs around her mother, in a circle – clockwise – as if propelling herself in the same direction as time, forward.

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[Available October 22, 12:01 AM – October 24, 11:59 PM, 2022] Stream online…

Sat, Oct 22nd, 1:15 PM @ Studio on the Square

Year: 2020
Runtime: 4 minutes
Language: English
Country: United States
Director: Lynne Sachs
Cast: Maya Street-Sachs

AD MELIORA

Ad meliora, or “towards better things” combines hundreds of separate images that create a deep meditation on being, creativity and nature; a mandala of forms that becomes highly symbolic of life, death, yesterday, now, and the next moment. Flowers, plants and textures were photographed in places such as nature conservatories, cultivated gardens, vacant properties and parking lots. The familiar landscape appears molten, luminous and renewed. Ad meliora is suggestive of adaptation, resilience and transformation.

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[Available October 22, 12:01 AM – October 24, 11:59 PM, 2022] Stream online…

Sat, Oct 22nd, 1:15 PM @ Studio on the Square