Next Wednesday 11/13, Working Room will host the first screening of Fugue, a new short film by Connor Barrett.
Fugue opens into the California haze, a place richly beautiful yet filled with a haunting uneasiness. An ominous painterly pastoral awakens to a duvet of fog and grazing livestock. The film’s imagery oscillates between landscapes and abstracted visions of those spaces — waves bathe rocky shorelines, light refracts into constellations, an arresting blood-red bodily web supersedes the pictorial, beams peek through the looming forest line. The film is further enriched by its symbiosis with its soundtrack by sound artist Eric Eckhart.
The film is an invocation of the sublime with its enveloping elemental beauty and the arcane dread that this beauty harbors. Encountering this film feels like encountering a deep part of oneself.
A longing for the sun.
Connor is one of our studio members at Working Room and a good friend. We talk a lot about movies and connect on our shared love for experimental film, especially ones that depict landscapes, the quiet, and the meditative. So, it has been uniquely special for me to write this newsletter and to be sharing their film.
Doors will open at 7 PM with music selections from myself (sters) and Piper (pi), along with snacks. Fugue will begin at 8:00, followed by a short dj set for post-viewing contemplation by me.
If you wouldn’t mind, please RSVP for the evening here.
- Liza