Saturday, October 11, 2025
9:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP
CAMlab Harvard University
Lower Level, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Program Info
Interwoven Overlay
Program 06:
Co-Programmed by
Doug Urbank & Rick Shepardson
Friday, October 11, 2025
9:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP
RSVP info
Lower Level, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138
Interwoven Overlay presents three experimental films that explore how personal, familial, and collective histories are shaped, fragmented, and reassembled through memory, place, and media. Alexander Girav, Ana Hušman and Laura Ivins use film as a space of layering—of voice over image, past over present, fiction over fact—to create works that are both intimate and structurally complex.
I Would Rather Be a Stone (Radije bih bila kamen) - Ana Husman
23:48, 16mm to Digital, B&W and Color 2024
Burn Ceremony - Alexander Girav
17:00, Digital, Color 2024
Annie, wake up - Laura Ivins
1:00:00, 8mm, super 8mm, 16mm, digital 2024 color
Total: 1:40:00
I Would Rather Be a Stone (Radije bih bila kamen) - Ana Husman
23:48, 16mm to Digital, B&W,and Color 2024
Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia. The living conditions impacted on the personal lives of the people who lived there, their solitude, relationships, opportunities, apprehensions and hopes. Little Jela embodies several members of my own family which is predominantly composed of women – mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts.
Ana Husman's practice disassembles the structures and textures of cinematic elements through film, installation, books, sound, image and text. Hušman experiments with the possibilities of animation, documentary and fictional cinematic methods, and the possibilities of recorded voice and its articulation. Her working process questions and plays with the positions of the amateur and the professional subject of performativity, the medium itself, and the structures that dictate and produce patterns of behaviour. She teaches at the Department of Animation and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and is a co-founder of the documentary film organisation RESTART where she has been holding film education programs for children and young people for many years. Since 2003, she is a member of Pangolin, an artist-run organisation working in film, visual arts and research practices, where she produces films, books and other works. Her works have been shown at film festivals and exhibitions worldwide.
Burn Ceremony - Alexander Girav
17:00, Digital, Color 2024
An unsanctioned observation of [redacted]'s largest oil refinery, processing 440,000 barrels of crude oil a day. By night, the complex becomes a heaving edifice of flame and fog. We observe its operation from afar as the inferno slowly engulfs the frame, accompanied by an original hypnotic soundscape by UK club experimentalist Loraine James. A vision of industrial desolation in which dread turns to awe.
Alexander Girav (b. 1995) is an American filmmaker and cinematographer whose observational work explores post-capitalist landscapes through an experimental, ethnographic lens. His films have been screened at Sundance, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, and the Jeonju International Film Festival. His cinematography on The Harvest earned him a nomination for the National Geographic Award for Best Cinematography at Millennium Docs. He earned a BFA in Film/Video from CalArts in 2017.
Annie, wake up - Laura Ivins
1:00:00, 8mm, super 8mm, 16mm, digital 2024 color
Annie, wake up' is a non-narrative, assemblage film that uses the device of a fictional protagonist, Annie, to reflect on feelings of home, both comforting and oppressive. The ten chapters explore meanings both domestic and communal. Home is a domicile, a community, a geography, and an ideology. The film collages heterogeneous media sources like 8mm home movies, stop motion, direct animation, and archival sound to construct layers of feeling within the frame and throughout the soundtrack. 'Annie, wake up' creates a reflective space that is sometimes brooding, sometimes miraculous, perhaps both.
Laura Ivins is an experimental filmmaker, film critic, and independent scholar based in Southern Indiana. She uses collage and assemblage techniques
to explore multiplicity of perspective, working with a heterogeneity of formats that includes small-gauge film, digital and analog video,
and found footage. Her films have screened at the Oaxaca FilmFest, Oxford Film Festival, and Bare Bones International Film and Music Festival,
and she has exhibited multimedia installations in collaboration with local artists, writers, and musicians.
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