Ashes of Roses
11.5 minutes | 2023 I 16mm + digital
This movie is about loving things that are embarrassing and people who are inappropriate. It's an essay film reflection on popular trash; football parties; older men; adolescent desire and the outrageous yet mundane humiliations of being a teenage girl in the 1980s. With sound design by Kevin T. Allen and performance cameos by filmmakers Roger Beebe and Jason Livingston.
Screenings/Exhibitions:
Seattle International Film Festival
RPM Festival, Harvard FAS CAMLab
Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA
Antimatter [media art], Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, B.C.
Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY
Light Matter, Alfred, NY
Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA
Cauldron International Film Festival, Salt Lake City
Oak Cliff Film Festival, Dallas, TX
Chicago Underground Film Festival