The Weight of Mountains
An international platform for contemporary film
Events
Symposia, screenings, and collaborations associated with the residencies.
NFSA x AFW x TWOM
In 2019, Artist Film Workshop (Melbourne Australia) presented 16mm films from the National Film and Sound Archive alongside films made in the field with The Weight of Mountains
A program of films that consider deep time, psychogeography, landscape as character, and subversive otherworlds.
Maya Deren, At Land
Sakumi Hagiwara, Kiri = Mist
Robert Morris, Mirror
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Terra Jean Long (CA) - 350 MYA
Jean-Jacques Martinod (EC) - Grabados del Ojo Nocturno
Melody Woodnutt (AU/IS) - Love and Other Ecologies
Anita Bryan (UK) and Melody Woodnutt - Death Letter
Sabina Maselli (AU) - Equations for a Falling Body
Shiver Festival
A night of analogue films by women filmmakers in collaboration with TWOM, Shiver Festival (Yukon, CA) and Reel Femme (UK). February 2018.
Germaine Dulac (FR)
Jayne Amara Ross (FR)
Terra Jean Long (CA)
Maya Deren (USA)
Barbara Hammer (USA)
EmIly Drummer (USA)
Caroline Monnet (CA)
Tessa Rex (AU)
Suzan Pitt (USA)
Dawson City International Short Film Festival
included screenings by TWOM filmmakers
March 2018
Matthew Batty
Jake Bellew
Tess Hutson
Zoe Kinross
melannie monoceros
Tessa Rex
Ahmed Safy El-Din
Alisa Vostiklap
no.w.here
London, November 2015
A film and sound performance by Moroccan resident artists:
16mm film by Terra Jean Long with sound performed by Gil Delindro
Another World is Possible
no.w.here London
Symposia, November 2015.
After the residency program concluded in the Moroccan Sahara, filmmakers traveled to London to present with local film collective, no.w.here.
Talks by:
Peter Johnson
Noor Afshan Mirza
Melody Wooonutt
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Andy Cnio
Ayesha Hameed
Icelandic Tour
Screenings across Iceland
During the residency and at its conclusion, filmmakers traveled to Icelandic locations to present their films and new works.
Sauðárkrókur
January 2014
Skagaströnd
February 2014
Reykjavik
February 2014
Yu Araki, Alasdair Bayne, Temujin Doran, Emily McAllan, Jolene Mok, Jayne Amara Ross, Boris Schaarschmidt, Morgan Rhys Tams, Rachel Lin Weaver, Tim Marshall, Melody Woodnutt.
Devil Moon
A TWOM community radio show
Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, 2018
Hosted by Budget Bardo and Avant Garbo, two filmmakers polluted the airwaves and invited callers to get random trash and treasures read by clairvoyantcy.
