Acting
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At a jazz party in Berlin near the end of the Weimar era, actress Cornelia tells concerned moralist Fabian about her latest UFA film role.
Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC. After the death of his roommate, he becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy NYC Chinatown street.
A spectral reimagining of Peg Entwhistle’s fateful leap from the Hollywood sign in 1932. Bathed in grain and twilight melancholy, this speculative docudrama refracts the last moments of a forgotten starlet into a haunted meditation on fame, failure, and the myth-making machinery of American cinema. A celluloid séance in nine minutes. (Chicago Underground Film Festival)
“This piece was made at Rodrigo Courtneys 2019 Millennium Filmmaking Workshop, where he took us to the streets of Greenwich Village for three hours to shoot improvised footage on our cell phones or cameras. In those three hours, I began gravitating to things of a pink color palette with sensual textures, sounds and words. I edited these elements to have a unified tone, as if to say thank you to the experience of finding pink” (Holly Overton). (Screened 2/17/22 at MoMA as part of Millennium Film Workshop: “Nighttime” NYC event).
