WAVE 3: PROGRAM 4
Saturday, May 11 at 1:30 PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave, New York, NY
As close as your voice can call (16mm)
Derek B. Jenkins
14 min
A film about language, about the way trauma inflects grief, and about learning to speak with the dead.
—Derek B. Jenkins
The Treasury of Human Inheritance
Alexis Kyle Mitchell
59 min
'The Treasury of Human Inheritance' is a film about the experience of living with and alongside disease and disability. Tracing loops, echoes and repetitions across the physical and spiritual realms, ‘The Treasury’ combines documentation of family home movie footage; somatic and religious rituals for death and life after death; abandoned urban architectures teeming with natural growth; celluloid film hand-processed in genetic material; and an analogue synthesizer soundtrack that mimics inheritance patterns of genetic disease. In essence, this is a film about a family – but, more than that, it is a film made from the everyday patterns we embody in order to live through and with one another. —Alexis Kyle Mitchell