Our Summer Made Her Light Escape
4.5 minutes | 2012 I 16mm
Our Summer Made Her Light Escape explores the beauty and the quotidian cruelties of the natural world right outside one’s door. A wordless portrait of interiority, maternal ambivalence and the passage of time.
Screenings/Exhibitions:
World Premiere, Museum of the Moving Image, NY
Director's Citation, Black Maria Film Festival
IMAGES Festival, Toronto
Ann Arbor Film Festival
DocsDF Festival Int’l de Cine Documental de la Ciudad de Mexico
Best in Show Award, New Waves, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
Portugal Underground Film Festival tour, Spectacle Theatre, Brooklyn
Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Written in Light: Meditations on the Moving Image, Group Exhibition
St. Francis College Women’s Film Festival, Brooklyn
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
$100 Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta
Portland Women’s Film Festival
WNDX Winnipeg Festival of Moving Image
InLight Richmond , 1708 Gallery (installation)
MIA @ The Armory, Pasadena
TIE at the Paramount Center, Boston
Salt Lake City Film Festival
The Picture Show, Brooklyn
The Shed Space @ Barbés, Brooklyn
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
As a part of the Mothering Every Day
Touring Program:
Artist's Television Access, San Francisco
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
Boathouse Microcinema, Portland, OR
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Union Docs, Brooklyn
Published in Tin House Reels, September 2013
TILT Movement on Film Series, Union Theatre, Salt Lake City (2024)
Press:
Screen Slate
NOW Magazine, Toronto, CA
Top Ten mention in the Senses of
Cinema 2013 World Poll