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Cinema Elvire Popesco -
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 18:00
Cinema Muzeul Țăranului -
Friday, March 18, 2016 - 20:30
Written by:
Zia Anger
Cast:
Audrey Turner, Eve Alpert, India Menuez, Adinah Dacynger, Lola Kirke
Cinematography:
Miranda Rhyne
Editing:
Zia Anger, Lucy Munger, Miranda Rhyne
Sound:
Arjun G. Sheth
Music:
Julianna Barwick
Producer:
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Romanian Premiere
Setting its parameters from the first words spoken, I Remember Nothing exists precariously on the edge of chaos and poetry, structured around the five stages of epilepsy while looking at a day in the life of teenager Joan. Stuck in the tedium of small-town America and the humdrum of high-school, she is the poster-girl of teenage angst, a budding life-force arrested in development. Her only escape appears at a baseball game, as a source of curiosity and excitement offered by her blossoming puberty. Zia Anger purposefully induces a sense of disorientation and peril through casting choices and flourishes of magical realism, framing Joan’s sexual exploration against epilepsy’s impending assault. By the end, we’re left dazed, confused but fully submissive to the powerful impact of love and its menacing consequences. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF)
Director:
Zia Anger is a filmmaker and music video director. Her most recent short My Last Film premiered at the 53rd New York Film Festival. She has made music videos for various independent artists including: Angel Olsen, Julianna Barwick, and Jenny Hval; the latter of whom she also tours with - projecting live video and participating as a performer. Her music videos have been featured in various online publications including: Pitchfork, the Guardian, and NPR. In 2015. Zia was included in Filmmaker Magazine's '25 New Faces of Independent Film' issue. She is a 2015 fellow in film/video from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant for her short film Lover Boy.
Website:
Contact:
lavenderhillfilms[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- New Directors/New Films, New York 2015
- Maryland Film Festival 2015
- Festival del Film Locarno 2015
- Denver International Film Festival 2015
- AFI 2015
- Imagine Science Film Festival 2015
- Basilica Soundscape, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art 2015
- Vienna Independent Shorts 2015
Curatorial comment:
With each new stage of sensations, a character’s face changes and the world shifts. Zia Anger’s I Remember Nothing is about a girl, a game and epilepsy. Cruising on a pulsing rhythm reflecting the different chapters and a howling soundtrack, I Remember Nothing is a mood piece of the highest order. Bringing the audience quickly into this sort of estranged subjectivity, we are brought deep into a point of view that seems increasingly removed from reality. Many of the best moments come in textural details that breath so much life into the film. Some images that stand out are light hitting Joan’s stubbled legs, the framing of a closed fist against a wrinkled baseball uniform and waking up in the dirt. This, combined with the film’s best selling point — its sense of humour — make for an incredibly rich experience. Creating something beyond just an experience of mood and sensuality, Zia Anger offers a film that is consistently engaging and fun. Directed by an incredibly promising voice on the horizon of a new American cinema, I Remember Nothing should be on your radar. (Justine A. Smith, Vague Visages)
With each new stage of sensations, a character’s face changes and the world shifts. Zia Anger’s I Remember Nothing is about a girl, a game and epilepsy. Cruising on a pulsing rhythm reflecting the different chapters and a howling soundtrack, I Remember Nothing is a mood piece of the highest order. Bringing the audience quickly into this sort of estranged subjectivity, we are brought deep into a point of view that seems increasingly removed from reality. Many of the best moments come in textural details that breath so much life into the film. Some images that stand out are light hitting Joan’s stubbled legs, the framing of a closed fist against a wrinkled baseball uniform and waking up in the dirt. This, combined with the film’s best selling point — its sense of humour — make for an incredibly rich experience. Creating something beyond just an experience of mood and sensuality, Zia Anger offers a film that is consistently engaging and fun. Directed by an incredibly promising voice on the horizon of a new American cinema, I Remember Nothing should be on your radar. (Justine A. Smith, Vague Visages)