Doors 7:30p
Program 8:00p
Apr 3, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Scanning / Processing: Josh Lewis & Ross Meckfessel
With Josh Lewis and Ross Meckfessel
UnionDocs
352 Onderdonk Ave
Ridgewood, NY
Join us for a special evening with filmmakers Josh Lewis and Ross Meckfessel as they present a selection of their work! Known for their innovative approaches to small gauge film, Lewis and Meckfessel explore the material and poetic possibilities of analog cinema, engaging with themes of texture, transformation, and the limits of the moving image.
Note: This public screening kicks off our three day workshop all about celluloid with Josh and Ross as artistic mentors! Check it out — APPROACHING CELLULOID: FILM AS PHYSICAL OBJECT.
Program
An Empty Threat by Josh Lewis
6 mins
Zero Length Spring by Ross Meckfessel
16 min, 2021
Doubt nos. 2, 4, 7, 8 by Josh Lewis
12 mins
Estuary by Ross Meckfessel
11.5 mins, 2021
Chorus by Josh Lewis
18 mins
The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs by Ross Meckfessel
11 min, 2018
Past is Past by Josh Lewis
6 mins
A Century Plant in Bloom by Ross Meckfessel
10 mins, 2016
Program Duration: 90 mins
Watch the conversation between Presenter1, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub.
Bios
Josh Lewis is an artist and filmmaker working primarily with photochemical material. Approaching film as a medium with both formal and spiritual capacities, he looks to the moving image as a means of exploring the sublime, the boundaries of manual knowledge and the persisting enigma of material potential. His works have screened widely and won various awards at film festivals such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, 25fps, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. He is the founder and co-runner of Negativeland, a 16mm and Super-8mm laboratory and moving image resource facility located in Ridgewood, NY, which has been operating since 2011.
Ross Meckfessel is an artist and filmmaker who works primarily in Super 8 and 16mm film. His films often emphasize materiality and poetic structures while depicting the condition of modern life through an exploration of apocalyptic obsession, contemporary ennui, and the technological landscape. His work has screened internationally and throughout the United States including in Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, and Curtas Vila Do Conde among others.
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