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Contributors:

Chloe Abrahams

Pauls Toutonghi

D.L. Alvarez

Michael Palmieri

Donal Mosher

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Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher and guest contributor Chloe Abrahams present a live cinema event that explores the boundaries between the physical and the incorporeal, war and historical memory, restless dreams and waking desires. This performance includes a special adaptation of a local Camden ghost story.

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Moonshiner’s Ghost

Despite the best intentions, every filmmaker has a film that got away from them. But do these projects truly disappear? This portrait of musician, photographer, and folk archivist John Cohen examines the ways that uncompleted work haunts and shapes our creative lives. Written and performed by Michael Palmieri.

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After the Fall 

A local Camden folktale reveals itself to be part of America’s obsession with tragic representations of women and the choices they make with their lives and bodies. Written by Donal Mosher, performed by Chloe Abrahams.

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Low Star

A family’s oral traditions have a ghostly influence on a fateful night in the rural American South. Written and performed by Donal Mosher​.

 

Lost Dogs
On the coast of the Pacific Northwest a man gives redeeming love to the ghosts of abused dogs that inhabit his home. From the Spirit Phone community interactive project.

 

Consumer Saints

Super 8 vacations films become omens of global warming in this meditation on tradition, consumer culture, and the myth of the sunken city. Written and performed by Donal Mosher.

 

In the Ruins of the Ruins

In Syria a writer learns the fragile but enduring power of historical preservation while confronting the destructive legacies of time and war. Written and narrated by Pauls Toutonghi.

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Regan Era

Artist, author, and activist D.L. Alvarez brings us to a San Francisco gay bar where The Exorcist, Ronald Reagan, and classic gay porn intertwine in a wry and very queer look at cinema, loss, and sensuality. Written by D.L. Alvarez, performed by Michael Palmieri.

 

Limbo

Multimedia artist and filmmaker Chloe Abrahams turns a personal experience of sleep walking into exploration of desire and the strange places that exist between waking and dreaming. Written and performed by Chloe Abrahams.

 

What Music They Make 
While watching a 1950’s werewolf film two boys explore their sexualities, their response to the violence of their worlds, and the shifting moral positions of fantasy. Written and performed by Donal Mosher.

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