About this Event
Our memories make us. Be it a domineering father or the floor plans of the family home, fragments of our childhood become foundational parts of who we are. “Home Sweet Home?” is a program of films that capture both what is beautiful and tender about growing up, and the baggage that may come with looking back at our youth. In the hands of these filmmakers, memories become a mouthpiece for self-expression and a reclamation of the coming-of-age that is chosen for us.
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Program Lineup:
Screen Memory directed by Maggie Murphy
This film uses the tools of children (colored pencils, crayons, markers, stickers, and glitter) to materially-intervene into childhood memories as preserved on printed-out frames of VHS home video, surrounding the child-self with protective apparitions and granting her magical powers.
Charlie is Not a Boy directed by Pol Curucz
The tale of a hushed soul, bound to a crumbling household in an allegorical America. With a perverted butcher for a father and a mother frozen in a quiet, catatonic spell, Charlie seeks solace in the whimsical world of his eccentric grandmother. As his safe haven unravels, Charlie navigates the hostile worlds of home and the military, caught between his authentic self and the masks he must wear.
Full Circle directed by Anna Hopkins
A mother and son search for the perfect vantage point to witness a total solar eclipse. Once totality hits, the difference between past, present and future becomes blurred.
Dancing Standing Still directed by Drea Chuma
Explores grief and the unexpected places it reveals itself. It is the grief of small boxes that arrive quietly, wrapped in beautiful beginnings. It emerges as questions, asking us to rely on self-trust in unfamiliar emotional terrain. A poem carries the film, offering a place to land as seasons shift in subtle, unassuming ways. It holds space for the tension between movement and pause: dancing as a step into newness, standing still as the quiet moments of processing change.
Lost Roots directed by Daria Pavlova
The main character tries to reconnect with her Buryat culture, but painful memories from childhood make it hard for her to accept herself. Fear of rejection and old wounds from bullying keep coming back, even as she moves closer to her roots. This film asks one of the most important questions for anyone who has to hide their identity: what is it like to grow up between worlds, and is it possible to find yourself and carry on your heritage, despite the pressure from society?
La Superstición del Huevo directed by Darmyn Calderon
Through an egg cleansing ritual, a mother’s love and superstition intertwine. She unknowingly opens a passage between worlds, awakening the unseen.
의자 uija directed by Ryan Henry Knight
A Korean-American man sits alone in a wooden chair, moved across four landscapes, speaking to a father he has both feared and loved. Drawn from the family history of its performer, whose own father escaped North Korea as a child, Uija is a moving-image work built on reduction, superimposition, and reflection, a portrait of the words that go unsaid across a lifetime, and the difficulty of finally saying them.
Little Boy Lost directed by Adam Knott
A semi-autobiographical photofilm that consists solely of photographs, placed in a cinematic context, that documents the transformation from childhood into adulthood, and the isolation and loneliness felt by many as they journey through life.
Family Room directed by Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen
Explores the idea of home and family through shifting floor plans—some real, some imagined, some slowly dissolving. These architectural drawings, typically used to map stability and order, begin to shift, expand, and break apart, revealing the fluid and sometimes fragile nature of domestic space. As rooms merge and hallways lead to nowhere, the familiar structure of home becomes something less certain, reflecting the ways in which family life is shaped by time, memory, and change.
Agenda
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:45 PM
"Home Sweet Home?" Screening of 9 short films
🕑: 05:45 PM - 06:00 PM
Q&A with Filmmakers
Event venue & nearby stays
Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, New York, United States
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