Now Instant and the Los Angeles Festival of Movies present PART-TIME, a collection of six new moving image works drawn from the worlds of fine art, experimental film, and narrative cinema that impel the structural capacities of the form.
Holographic Will
A domestic swirl filmed while the building was being sold. How much longer can we afford to stay? A kaleidoscopic portrait of destabilization during the struggle to stay in a rent-controlled apartment amidst an affordable housing crisis. Shot frame-by-frame, moving the camera between every image. Single frames move forward in time, creating after-image combinations without superimpositions. A phased drum machine soundtrack emphasizes the percussive quality of the image. (With gratitude to neighbors and the Los Angeles Tenants Union Northeast Local)
history as hypnosis
"A speculative road movie that unfolds through cultural memory of the US war in Vietnam, the film follows three women, recently reprogrammed by an artificial intelligence that has wiped all traces of their previous lives, as they journey through an uncanny desert landscape to a nearby metropolis. Freely combining genre, fact, and fiction, the film draws on its Southern California locations’ postmodern glass facades, mimetic architecture, and roadside infrastructure—markers of car culture’s entanglement with American expansionism and cinema history alike—to uncover the more ineffable links between collective consciousness and the Cold War military-industrial complex."
Solo la Luna Comprenderá
As a magical moon creeps in, different timelines entwine in the mysterious and stagnant town of Manzanillo.
Otherhood
Mother and child confront the other. Meanwhile, some ladies are thinking.
In a Nearby Field
A family of three lives in an apartment in the Basque Country. Domestic chores and everyday gestures are superimposed onto green landscapes. The filmmakers and their stand-ins reinterpret fragments of a diary. Music fills the house while children's drawings come to life.
Lemon Tree
At a Halloween carnival, a young father steals a magician's rabbit to impress his ten year old son. The thrill of the petty theft quickly dissolves into reality when the young boy is tasked with getting himself, his father, and his new pet home safe.