Sara Sowell: The Individual PERSONAL CINEMA SCREENING

This July Millennium Film Workshop welcomes esteemed filmmaker Sara Sowell (Milwaukee, WI) to enjoy a two week residency in the workshop, stretching from July 21 through August 3, 2024. Sara will be utilizing our Steenbeck flatbed editing table, splicers, projectors and facilities as her full-service editing suite as she works to complete her new 2-Channel 16mm film, The Individual.

Intended to screen in galleries, museums and film festivals, The Individual (title in progress) is a film displayed as a two-channel 16mm projection, where two hand-built black and white film reels are projected simultaneously side-by-side. Originally conceived as an adaptation of Man Ray's autobiography Self Portrait, this project has evolved into an experimental interpretation of historical events and artworks created by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray between 1912-1926. Interspersed with Man Ray's autobiography are writings from Kathy Acker, Rosalind Krauss, Claude Cahun, Virginia Woolf, and Sara herself.

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