Zachary Epcar

The Canyon
2021 / 15 min / 16mm on video

A portrait of the urban residential development as it slips into oblivion.

"Here, objects and buildings, bodies and landscapes appear caught in a continuous loop of mutual stimulation and animation... We find ourselves in a restless present, in which remembering equals the imprint left in the memory foam, and possession is just another name for the loss we experience, for the void we leave behind, when we move on."
- Katrin Mundt, 25 FPS jury

screenings:

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2023
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
World Film Festival of Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022
Duluth Superior Film Festival, Duluth, MN, 2022
Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, 2022
EXiS, Seoul, South Korea, 2022
Sicilia Queer, Palermo, Italy, 2022
FENDA Experimental Festival of Film Arts, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2022
V-F-X Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2022
MACHINALIVE, Brescia, Italy, 2022
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, 2022
Peripheries (online), 2022
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY, 2022
Cosmic Rays, Chapel Hill, NC, 2022
Media City Film Festival (online), 2022
Ecstatic Static (online), 2022
FLEX Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Tampa, FL, 2022
SWB Experimenthaus Neubühl, Zürich, Switzerland, 2021
Light Matter, Alfred, NY, 2021
Cámara Lúcida, Cuenca, Ecuador, 2021
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, WA, 2021
Linea d'Ombra Festival, Salerno, Italy, 2021
Transient Visions, Johnson City, NY, 2021
FRACTO, Berlin, Germany, 2021
Antimatter, Victoria, Canada, 2021
Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA, 2021
Curtocircuíto, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2021
Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2021
New York Film Festival, New York, NY, 2021
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2021
25 FPS, Zagreb, Croatia, 2021
IndieLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 2021
Process, Riga, Latvia, 2021
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival (online), 2021
Maryland Film Festival (online), 2021
European Media Art Festival (online), 2021
Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France, 2021

awards:

Kodak Filmmaker Award, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Grand Jury Prix, 25 FPS
Jury Special Mention, Curtocircuíto

press:

Expanded Nature: Ecologies of Experimental Cinema, Light Cone Editions, “Plonger dans le grand bain, pour renouveler et étendre nos perceptions,” Vincent Deville
Millennium Film Journal, No. 75, “Currents,” Kim Knowles
MUBI, “Collective Records: New York Film Festival's Currents,” Emma Piper-Burket
ALT/KINO, “Highlights from 25FPS 2021,” Patrick Gamble