Movies: Lori Felker

A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler....

A mysterious, misfit family readies a feast for a group of visiting outlanders. As they shuffle through ritualistic preparations, shadows reveal each creature- one menacing, one wounded, and one worn, stewards of an old tradition....

A fractured, makeshift family ekes out a meditative existence, their lives mysteriously intertwined through ritual and habit. Part musical, part melodrama. An enigmatic tale of eternal return, a decayed slice of Midwestern Gothic....

An outdoor painting instructor takes an objectionable interest in an attractive young couple's summer romance....

A correspondence film: rolls of high contrast black and white film were sent back and forth in the mail over the course of a year until the film began to reveal itself as a science non-fiction fairy tale, a speculative quest – circling and searching,...

Luis Buñuel’s observation – “You can find all of Shakespeare and de Sade in the lives of insects” – was the inspiration for this experimental horror movie, in which human actors wordlessly enact the life-cycles of wasps and bees. Its purpose is to de...

Lori Felker follows-up her essayistic short Spon- taneous with this wonderfully discomforting examination of life with a toddler. Starting with a chronological series of vignettes before focusing on an awkward encounter with a neighbor babysitter, No...

On the trail of Tall Tales, on a tour of an American treasure, on the path of an area once inhabited by people we don’t know, people we’ve never met, on a land complete with gift shops, parking lots, and sky rides, at the foot of a tree that predates...

A mysterious, amusing, semi-nostalgic ramble through a small town in Iowa gives way to what may be the U.S.S. Enterprise indulging in a bit of time travel. Dialogue contrasts the pleasures of the simple life with its hardships and the mere act of loo...

Broken News is an intimate attempt at reporting, mediating and being mediated....

It all started when we found some Mrs. Claus dolls at a craft store . . . This film unravels a slightly disturbing family tale of continued incest in a surreal, gritty, distant world . . . at the end of your street. This is what I like to call “home...

Memoria Data collects the moments of connection from various and distant familial archives. Familiar eyes make contact with the lens, gestures are are tossed to the camera operator, and mouths spill unheard words. These images remind us of why we kee...

Ficiton, reality, the private and the performed overlap on a routine but emotional day at a medical centre....

You never know when someone is miscarrying; it could be happening right next to you....

Experience the duality of a singular location anywhere and all over the world, where there’s always something to see and almost everything to imagine. This is a travel show, marking an adventure to a place, a non-space, an unnamed border....

Zwischen exists on the thin line between opposing forces. There is no grey between black and white, as Zwischen jumps from earth to space, mixes matter with air, and materializes inspiration at the insistence of the hand. Dirt moves over light to a h...

An experimental short parodying the style of science television programs for young people. Two scientists, Matter and Doesn't Matter, explore the nature of matter and attempt to measure the intangible....

The doors are shut but the organ is live and I can see the sound. I'm crawling around trying to get to the images, the only other people in the room....

A strange untitled test film is found and revived. Thus begins a documentary project based on that film. That documentary is never finished. The unfinished documentary is found and a television show investigates it and its maker. That episode never a...

A roll of film is not a successful conduit for grief. For Robert Todd....