Zachary Epcar

Return to Forms
2016 / 10 min / 16mm on video

A constellation of objects, each emerging into the soft peach-light void of an indeterminate condominium space.

“Subjecting our visual (and virtual) lexicon of luxury to a series of sculptural and kinetic interventions, the film evokes a crazed anthropologist’s observations of a bizarre cargo cult — our own. The climactic vision... is typical of Epcar’s exuberant play with meaning: the commodity pulverized, reconstituted as a new order of objet d’art, and finally relinquished to the rude flow of cinema.” - Max Goldberg

screenings:

Blonde Cobra, Cologne, Germany, 2022
l’Etna, Paris, France, 2022
LaborBerlin, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Lichtspiele Kalk, Cologne, Germany, 2022
Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2022
WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2022
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY, 2022
Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, IL, 2022
Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA, 2021
Spectral Microcinema, Stevens Point, WI, 2019
Flaherty NYC, New York, NY, 2019
Canyon Salon, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Black Hole Cinematheque, Oakland, CA, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2019
transmediale/CTM Vorspiel, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL, 2018
HDTS + The Ski Club, Twentynine Palms, CA, 2018
Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Fracto, Berlin, Germany, 2018
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2018
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, 2018
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival, Chicago, IL, 2018
Les Inattendus, Lyon, France, 2018
Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2017
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana, Cuba, 2017
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, 2017
Spectral Microcinema, Stevens Point, WI, 2017
D E E P, New York, NY, 2017
Transient Visions, Johnson City, NY, 2017
New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA, 2017
Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux, Paris, France, 2017
Bunker 2 Contemporary Art Container, Toronto, Canada, 2017
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow, Russia, 2017
Corner Theater, Busan, South Korea, 2017
Syros International Film Festival, Syros, Greece, 2017
Uplink Theater, Tokyo, Japan, 2017
Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, Canada, 2017
Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, Germany, 2017
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada, 2017
CROSSROADS 2017, San Francisco, CA, 2017
CineAutopsia, Bogotá, Colombia, 2017
ICDOCS, Iowa City, IA, 2017
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, 2017
Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, OH, 2017
Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France, 2017
Nocturnal Reflections, Milan, Italy, 2017
November Film Festival, London, England, 2016
Antimatter, Victoria, Canada, 2016
New York Film Festival, New York, NY, 2016

awards:

Jury Award, Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival
Audience Award, CROSSROADS 2017
Jury Award, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

press:

Cinema Scope, “Pleasurable Surfaces: The Films of Zachary Epcar,” Phil Coldiron
KQED, “Five Must-See Experimental Films at This Year’s CROSSROADS,” Max Goldberg
MUBI, “Three Days in May: San Francisco's Crossroads Festival 2017,” Michael Sicinski
UZAK, “A Road Outside: Crossroads 2017,” Stephen Broomer