Cinema of the Dam'd is pleased to present a showcase of two visiting American experimental filmmakers: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster and Wheeler Winston Dixon. Foster is an experimental filmmaker and video installation artist whose artwork is informed by punk DIY, queer feminism and the Dadaists, Surrealists and Situationists. Dixon has been making films since the 1960s, when he was part of the New York underground scene, and has made more than 400 films and experimental videos to date.
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Introverted teen Iona and her eccentric misfit mum Lyn move to a working class suburban town, hoping for a fresh start. While Iona struggles to fit in with a cadre of high school mean girls, Lyn is bullied by the town's surly adults. As the abuse escalates, mother and daughter are torn between fantasies of escape, and feeble attempts to confront their tormentors. British writer-director Deborah Haywood's cracked coming-of-age fable is surely one of the most disturbing films ever made about adolescence. Pin Cushion is a dark fairy tale, spiked with moments of grace and grotesquerie.
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17-year-old Milla and her boyfriend Leo live on the margins of French society in a small seaside town. They squat in abandoned buildings, playing house with a handful of scavenged belongings. Through a series of unexpected events, this simple arrangement is disrupted and transformed. Valérie Massadian's moving observational drama traces Milla's journey from dislocation to domesticity, finding poetry in the mundane moments of everyday life.
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