Zachary Epcar

Billy
2019 / 8 min / 16mm on video

The reenactment of a scene from a primetime soap opens this domestic psychodrama, an anxious look into the horrors of interior decoration and the boundless entanglement of things. 

“This is a home horror movie in which the true protagonist — a ghost, relentless stalker, and performer par excellence — is the camera.”
- Ela Bittencourt, Hyperallergic

screenings:

Le Cinéma Club (online), 2024
Blonde Cobra, Cologne, Germany, 2022
LaborBerlin, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2022
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY, 2022
Marseille Underground Film & Music Festival, Marseille, France, 2021
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH, 2021
Chicago Underground Film Festival (online), 2020
Cámara Lúcida (online), 2020
Transient Visions (online), 2020
International Film Festival Message To Man, St Petersburg, Russia, 2020
FRACTO, Berlin, Germany, 2020
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (online), 2020
Rencontres Internationales, Berlin Germany, 2020
CROSSROADS (online), 2020
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival (online), 2020
Maryland Film Festival (online), 2020
ICDOCS (online), 2020
European Media Art Festival (online), 2020
Cosmic Rays, Chapel Hill, NC, 2020
Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France, 2020
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2020
Acropolis Cinema, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
Spectral Microcinema, Stevens Point, WI, 2019
Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
New York Film Festival - Projections, New York, NY, 2019
Toronto International Film Festival - Wavelengths, Toronto, Canada, 2019

awards:

Special Mention, European Media Art Festival

press:

L'emergere del possibile, “Billy,” Francesca Rusalen & Francesco Cazzin
Filmmaker Magazine, “Wavelengths 2019, Program 4: Full Circle,” Phil Coldiron
Criterion, “Projections 2019,” David Hudson
Desistfilm, “TIFF 2019 - Wavelengths: Book of Hours y Billy,” José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Cinema Scope, “Pleasurable Surfaces: The Films of Zachary Epcar,” Phil Coldiron
Hyperallergic, “The Best Experimental Shorts at the Toronto International Film Festival,” Ela Bittencourt