A rambunctious embrace, body to body, woman to woman, entrance to exit – in-law – foregrounding the construction of cinematic meaning, the elusive nature of memory and desire, the hysteric familial arena of the social. A comedy of manners and movement, the film excavates “girl training” in the legacy of home-movies and post-war American suburban culture, and is conceived for both loop installation and single-screen projection.

Child creates a fictional story composed from an anonymous family archive from 1930’s Europe, reconstructed to emphasize gender acculturation in two sisters who play, race, fight, kiss and grow up together under a shadow of oncoming history. At once biography and fiction, history and psychology, The Future is Behind You excavates gestures to explore the speculative seduction of narrative; it seeks a bridge between private and public histories.

Surf and Turf examines issues of immigration, nationalism and gender. A portrait of an East Coast shore community (Deal, New Jersey) where local surfers have defied police for years and forced change in access restrictions, Surf and Turf documents the ongoing battle between (largely) adolescent surfers, local fisherman and newly rich property owners. The result is a contested geography between private property and public interest, a battle in which disagreements on land-use become a forum for examining the 21st century’s vision of Paradise and property, property and public space. With this tape, the Diaspora returns to the shores of 21st century America, and history and memory work out in unexpected and provocative ways. This is a US premiere screening.