Our Local Film Night continues in September with Dien Vo and Flonia Telegrafi. Local filmmakers screen and discuss their work.
Dien Vo is a filmmaker and Visiting Assistant Professor in Film Production at Mount Holyoke College. He previously taught and developed film programs at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), Virginia Tech, and Bard College at Simon’s Rock. He works as a director, writer, producer, and editor.
Dien will screen excerpts from:
- LIVE Now: BirdTV (documentary short). LIVE bird cams and the people who love them
- An Occurrence (fiction short). A distant, culturally-mixed family attempts a ceremonial day together. Lifelong emotions surface through small gestures, while the world around them keeps changing and carries on.
- Images of a historic powder horn in 360 degree imaging
- Let Them Have Their Way (feature fiction film). Three couples search for connection and meaning in an angry, anxious, and polarized world. Uniquely combining an expressionist and pop art style with hundreds of found footage clips, the film is a journey through the sights and sounds of consumerism, advertising, and self-help culture. A hybrid remix work blending fiction and documentary while testing the limits of Fair Use as rarely seen before.
Flonia Telegrafi is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based between Western Massachusetts and New York City. Her creative work explores themes of memory, community, belonging and our relationship to nature through filmmaking, audio and web-based storytelling, oral history and community journalism. Currently, she’s co-producing a documentary on live bird cams and the people who are obsessed with them. Her projects have been awarded by the Berkshire-Taconic Community Foundation and selected for development by Follow the Nile, Talents Durban, AFAC and Hot-Docs. Her non-fiction work has screened on PBS WNET/Thirteen, IFC Channel, and Cablevision and been nominated for a New York Emmy. Her writing has appeared in The New York World, The Mott Haven Herald, and The Hunts Point Express. She received her MFA from Hunter College, CUNY and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of non-fiction filmmaking at Mount Holyoke College. She previously taught at the City University of New York, Marymount Manhattan College, and the Rikers Island Media Lab, a program of the Tribeca Film Institute.
$1-5 suggested donation
