4:30, super-8 on DV, 2004
A tour of a midwestern neighborhood navigates the relationship between individual and community, privacy and intimacy. View online.
“Affectionately, shakily shot, this flickering document serves as a memory of a memory, preserving a kind of quintessential past; the woods behind neighbors’ houses, the voices of ghosts from behind screen doors and the gentle machinations of our families recorded in light. It is easy to remember Brunner-Sung’s film even if we are only seeing it for the first time. Her actors have been kind enough to be at once themselves and also archetypes for all of the people in our lives who lived in houses with front doors, or for cats that we don’t see anymore—people who have sunk beneath the ground, or who have become bodies in our mind. The frames of life are crisp, the edges have clear names like ‘1983’ or ‘1992’—it is only inside the borders, Brunner-Sung reminds us, that we find this perfectly grainy thing called our lives.” –NY Arts Magazine
Screenings
2015 Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX
2012 “Home,” GAZE at Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
2007 Starting from Scratch Film Festival, Amsterdam
2006 “Special Reconnaisance,” Gigantic Artspace, New York, NY
2005 Boxcar Film Series, Detroit, MI