Pleasure Dome is thrilled to partner with Eternal Family TV (@eternalfamily.tv | eternal.tv) sponsoring two experimental shorts by Emily Drummer and Joanie Wind for the month of August 2020.
Watch on eternal.tv and use promo code PLEASURE
Part of Summer 2020
Pleasure Dome is thrilled to partner with Eternal Family TV (@eternalfamily.tv | eternal.tv) sponsoring two experimental shorts by Emily Drummer and Joanie Wind for the month of August 2020.
Watch on eternal.tv and use promo code PLEASURE
Field Resistance, Emily Drummer (2019, 15:45 min)
Charging scenes of the present with dystopian speculation, Field Resistance teases the boundaries between documentary and science fiction to investigate overlooked environmental devastation in the flyover state of Iowa. Observational documentary-style footage collected from disparate locations – a university herbarium, karst sinkholes inhabited by primordial flora and fauna, a telecommunication tower job-site, among others – is used to evoke a fictional, dystopian narrative of plant ascension and humanity’s retreat. Rejecting the human individual as the focus of narrative cinema, the film adopts the perspective of a symbiotic “implosive whole” in which humans and nonhumans are related in an overlapping, non-total way.
Emily Drummer (b. 1990, San Francisco, California) is a filmmaker who uses immersive research as a starting point to investigate the dynamic between technology and the natural world. She completed her MFA in Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa and her BA at Hampshire College. A Princess Grace Award Honoraria recipient, Drummer’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Antimatter [media art], Experiments in Cinema, Alchemy Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, and The Maryland Film Festival.
This One Weird Trick, Joanie Wind (2019, 6:08 min)
A woman slogs through an identity mired with gendered stereotypes and consumer capitalism to attempt to discover her true self. What is “natural” or “original” becomes inaccessible, forgotten, and nonexistent.
Joanie Wind (b. 1987, she/they) is a visual artist and filmmaker from Tucson, Arizona. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Eastern Michigan University in 2015. They now live and teach art in the Detroit area and exhibit their work internationally.
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