The Cinematheque

“At her most powerful, Fenstermaker simply insists on taking quiet, soft things seriously.”

Shannon Gormley, Willamette Week

Today’s world is very loud, almost maliciously overstimulating, with an ever-increasing inclination to separate us sapiens from our bodies and the natural world. To encourage and elevate singular moments of connection, then, may be seen as defiance. While that might not be the first descriptor used for the work of Washington-based filmmaker, curator, and farmer Linda Fenstermaker, we soon recognize in this collection of impressionistic 16mm films that quiet connection is the point—and that the slow persistence of nature is subtly revolutionary. Through her focus on organic food systems and empowered women, Fenstermaker explores interactions and relationships between body and landscape. Iris Film Collective is proud to resurrect this Vancouver screening of ​“Fading Landscapes,” an event originally scheduled for March 2020. However, in a manner reminiscent of the pastoral subjects of Fenstermaker’s lens, patience is rewarded by harvest, and in due course we receive the bounty of these films. —Iris Film Collective

Abandoned Generations
USA 2015
Linda Fenstermaker
10 min. Digital

Tri-Alogue #3
USA 2017
Caryn Cline, Linda Fenstermaker, Reed O’Beirne
3 min. Digital

Here I Breathe
USA 2017
Linda Fenstermaker
8 min. Digital

Trahere
USA 2018
Caryn Cline, Linda Fenstermaker
4 min. Digital

Erased Etchings
USA 2017
Linda Fenstermaker
9 min. Digital

Partial
USA 2016
Linda Fenstermaker
7 min. Digital

Sometimes All of Summertime
USA 2019
Linda Fenstermaker
9 min. Digital

Bitch Island
USA 2017
Linda Fenstermaker
3 min. Digital