Zachary Epcar

Under the Heat Lamp an Opening
2014 / 10 min / 16mm on HD

An expanded view of the lunch crowd at an open-air restaurant, from a bird's-eye of the exterior to the depths of the interior.

“The images on the ground are cropped into tight rectangles of isolated haute vacation—variously tanned or pasty skins adorned in beach/lounge-wear, plates of deluxe foodstuffs—and above it all a giant mirror angled downward, its grid surface delineating reflected vacationers into split, sequestered boxes”
- Daniel Kasman, MUBI Notebook

screenings:

Blonde Cobra, Cologne, Germany, 2022
LaborBerlin, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2022
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY, 2022
Spectral Microcinema, Stevens Point, WI, 2019
Black Hole Cinematheque, Oakland, CA, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2019
Alexandrinsky Theatre, MIEFF touring program, St Petersburg, Russia, 2017
Process, Riga, Latvia, 2017
Nocturnal Reflections, Milan, Italy, 2017
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow, Russia, 2016
Screen and Audiovisual Research Unit, London, England, 2016
Art Cinema OFFoff, Ghent, Belgium, 2016
Copenhagen Short Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016
Cinema Contra, Denver, CO, 2015
Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Recife, Brazil, 2015
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, NY, 2015
Magic Lantern Cinema, Providence, RI, 2015
San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 2015
DINCA Vision Quest, Chicago, IL, 2015
Backup Kurzfilmfestival, Weimar, Germany, 2015
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 2015
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, 2015
San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2015
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM, 2015
Clink Street Studios, London, England, 2015
Crossroads Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2015
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2015
Moving 2015, Kyoto, Japan, 2015
FLEXfest, Gainesville, FL, 2015
Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2014
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada, 2014
Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY, 2014
New York Film Festival, New York, NY, 2014
Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014
Experimental Film Festival Portland, Portland, OR, 2014

awards:

Special Jury Prize, Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
Honorable Mention, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

press:

Cinema Scope, “Pleasurable Surfaces: The Films of Zachary Epcar,” Phil Coldiron
San Francisco Arts Quarterly, “Frames of Mind: Crossroads 2015,” Max Goldberg
MUBI, “NYFF 2014 First Projections,” Daniel Kasman
Mirrored Screens, “EIFF 2014 - Day 10,” Pedro Vaz Simões
Sight & Sound, “Brain-Benders of the Black Box,” Harriet Warman