there, where she is not | sarah ballard

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There, Where She is Not
2022 | 16mm > digital | 7'

Echos of a time in my grandmother's life that she no longer remembers—a fractured memory recollected through proxy figures Frances Farmer and Marguerite Duras—a mirror is a placeless place.

Repurposed interior design magazines, Farmer’s voice, text and image from Duras’ Destroy, She Said, and a half-assembled set collide as the piece reckons with reconstructing a woman’s psychic space in the 1950s.

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Screenings and Exhibitions:

2024 İstanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2023 CROSSROADS, SFCinematheque, San Francisco, CA
2023 IDENTITÀ, RITRATTI, VISIONI (Identities, Portraits, Visions) - Carpi, Italy
2023 Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA
2023 other midwest frequencies, Vertical Cinema, Iowa City, IA
2023 Underneath The Floorboards Festival (online)
2023 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV
2023 About Life, Onion City x Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2023 Heavy Light - San Diego Underground Film Festival - Los Angeles, CA
2023 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City, OK
2023 Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Vignola MO, Italy
2022 Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, BC
2022 Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, WA
2022 Cactus Club Independent Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
2022 Festival Internacional Signes de Nuit, Paris
2022 Flat Earth Film Festival, Seydisfjordur, Iceland

Awards
2023 Honorable Mention, Ribalta Experimental Film Festival

There, Where She is Not 2022 | 16mm > digital | 7'

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There, Where She is Not
2022 | 16mm > digital | 7'