Sanctuary Station + Unstable Rocks 

Director Brigid McCaffrey will appear in person

Dir. Brigid McCaffrey. 2024, 69 min. U.S. DCP. Shot on high-contrast black-and-white 16mm film and Super 16, this incandescent work continues Brigid McCaffrey’s ongoing portraiture of individuals who seek anarchic communion with their adopted land, weaving a rough, hallucinatory patchwork of encounters with women, old and young, solitary and collective, who live or work among the wildlife of the redwood forests and remote terrains of northwestern California. Through voiceover, the women share intimate observations of their primeval environment alongside personal stories of self-revelation, abstention, and conviction. These gradually merge in choral-like meditation, led by the richly timbred voice of the late poet Mary Norbert Körte, an ex-nun and Beat associate. Part of Science on Screen. North American premiere 

Preceded by: 

Unstable Rocks 
Dir. Ewelina Rosinska, in collaboration with Nuno Barroso. 2024, 25 min. Germany/Portugal. DCP. Writes filmmaker Rosinska, “Geology, animals, and the human path flow together in this subjective portrait of Portuguese landscapes. Between 2018 and 2023, I came across different regions and places in this country, either alone or with a group of artists and eco-activists. The footage was shot on the fringes of these groups’ work and activities, reflecting and revealing themes such as nature conservation, ethnography, agriculture or actions against gentrification. The rhythm of the film is determined by the Bolex camera, but is rather slow and contemplative, aligning the film with the contemporary idea of slowing down.” North American premiere 

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / free for MoMI members at the Senior/Student level and above. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

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About the filmmakers:

Brigid McCaffrey is a Los Angeles–based artist and filmmaker. She has exhibited widely at venues that include the Hammer Museum, Harvard Film Archive, and the Whitechapel Gallery, and in festivals such as Ambulante, Frontera, Images, New York Film Festival, Rotterdam, and the Viennale. Her work was presented by Ballroom Marfa for Artist’s Film International, the Flaherty Seminar, and the Pesaro Film Festival. McCaffrey is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video.

Ewelina Rosinska, born in Poland, holds an MA in Art History and is based in Germany and Portugal. Between 2013 and 2022 she studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Her films were screened at International Film Festival in Rotterdam IFFR, First Look at Museum of the Moving Image in New York or CPH:DOX, among others. She is currently holding a Berlin Senate grant for moving image artists and works on her upcoming films.