For All Audiences
Films by Josh Weissbach
Sunday, April 19th · 2PM

The Brattle Theatre and RPM Festival are proud to announce a screening of 16mm films by experimental filmmaker Josh Weissbach on April 19th at 2:00 PM.

Josh’s cinematic practice explores the relationship between the intimate and the uncanny within domestic spaces, investigating the visual agency of the (un)built form and its connection to familial trauma. His work also examines natural spaces and the transfer of force within matter.

A graduate of the MFA Filmmaking program at UMW and a frequent contributor to the RPM Festival, Josh has had his work featured in the festival three times over the last decade. His films have been screened worldwide at prestigious venues including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the European Media Art Festival. His numerous accolades include jury prizes from Montreal Underground and Onion City, as well as grants from the LEF Foundation and the Connecticut Office of the Arts.

For All Audiences
3 min, 16mm

A trailer of an experiment searches for meaning in a moldy montage. The detritus of the movie industry swims in organic material. Emulsion and its cracks, its crumbles, and its fades.

106 River Road
6 min, 16mm

A house. A court document. An accumulation of artifacts.

TAKE A PICTURE
3 min, 16mm

Throughout life and death, we are marked by the frame, whether it is with the stillness or not.

38 River Road
7 min, 16mm

The voice of a figureless character is heard. The figure of a voiceless character is seen. A sequence of estranged voicemails is framed by unidentified events. Fear resides in the gesture of a telling.

explant / implant
3 min, 16 mm

a lifetime of surgeries continues with an upgrade in battery life and a downgrade in scar tissue when the filmmaker has his original pacemaker replaced after sixteen years.

601 Revir Drive
9 min,16mm

A series of spatial limits are defined while a maker imbibes. Interdependence is inherited after a substance cannot be shook. An animal carefully guards an outlined space as a river runs backwards.

summer school
3 min, 16mm

along the banks of the salaca river in rural latvia, a haven emerges where analog film wizards and aspiring apprentices unite. at this pop-up school, the art of filmmaking intertwines with botany, folklore, and magic, weaving a tapestry of creativity and tradition.

Zero Woods of the Wild Place
13 min,16mm

Zero Woods of the Wild Place explores the forest that cannot conceal the trauma, the house that cannot listen while dying, and the labyrinth that spirals into the ethics of audio recording.

Frank Stares at Celestials
1 min,16mm

A group of people gather together to observe two passing celestials.

Eighteen Mill Street
14 min, 16mm

Eighteen Mill Street introduces Ukrainian artists Marianna Tarish and Nikita Gryshko soon after their relocation to Sweden due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film explores how Tarish and Gryshko’s relationships to intimate spaces have been impacted due to the trauma they experienced at the start of the war while living in Kherson, Ukraine and during their journey to Tranås, Sweden.

theoria
3 min, 16mm

A Greek man, once a guide on the island of Delos, started discussing what the word theory meant. The ensuing conversation was the inspiration for this film, entitled theoria [theh-oh-ree-ah].