OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES PRESENTS:

IN THE STRANGEHOLD OF IVY, 2023
by Antoinette Zwirchmayr

FREE Screening OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Dusk on FRIDAY DECEMBER 1ST until Dawn SATURDAY DECEMBER 2ND ** OPENING NIGHT **
Dusk on SATURDAY DECEMBER 2ND until Dawn SUNDAY DECEMBER 3RD

OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES presents 16MM films on LOOP visible from a distance from dusk until dawn.
72 ROCKWELL PLACE, Brooklyn, New York 11217 - Between BRIC Media Arts Center & BAM Rose Cinemas.
FULL DETAILS BELOW
* Any & All donations to benefit The Red Cross.

PROGRAM INCLUDES

IN THE STRANGEHOLD OF IVY, 2023 by Antoinette Zwirchmayr (DUAL PROJECTION 16MM COLOR film, Silent, 3 Min)
”The only inhabitant of this non-place is a ghostly presence. She wanders through the corridors, appears in poses and sometimes suddenly disappears. The figure seems trapped in this labyrinth surrounded by rampant nature. With haunting glances, she raises questions about her meaning. For nature's apparent stranglehold grips not only the impenetrable architecture, but equally the embodiment of this ghostly figure. Pregnancy, as Simone de Beauvoir writes, is an "ambiguous" state of transformation. "Flooded with life," the woman possesses the child and is equally possessed by it. This trail of presences and absences - this confusion of the status of subject and object - is what the film attempts to tap into. We participate in the uncanniness of this in-between stage, the emergence of something hidden. In the hopelessness of the ghost as revenant anticipated here, the film creates its very own surreal phantasmagoria of corporeality, architecture and nature, in whose expressive images we become completely caught up like the ivy.”

Antoinette Zwirchmayr lives and works in Vienna. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Visual Arts), University of Vienna (Romance Philology) and the Friedl Kubelka School (Artistic Photography and Independent Film). Her cinematic works have been presented at numerous festivals such as Berlinale (DE), Toronto International Film Festival (CA), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE), FID Marseille (FR), CPH:DOX (DK), Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (CZ), Viennale (AT), Media City Film Festival (CA), FICUNAM (MX), Festival de Sevilla (ES), Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK) and have been granted with several awards and scholarships.

With this series we ask that each presenting artist identify a non-profit they wish to bring attention to and support through this screening. Antoinette has selected The Red Cross. The Red Cross supports all the urgent humanitarian needs, helps those affected by disasters big and small, provides local programs for communities and helps to ensure that live-saving blood and blood products are available and as safe as possible wherever and whenever needed.

Please consider making a donation to support these efforts.

OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES:
The OPEN AIR SCREENING SERIES allows for 16mm film projection viewing with social and physical distance guidelines in place. 16mm film prints are projected, on loop, from dusk until dawn. Each artist receives an honorarium to support their practice and a new print of the work struck at MONO LAB. Each artist is asked to select a non-profit for a portion of the proceeds to benefit, a donation will be made in their name. And, YOU the audience are invited to enjoy the work, take part in the conversation and we ask that you consider making a donation as it directly supports the artist and the organization with which they share concern. This screening series is supported by the New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA).