In the Air Tonight
11m ● HD Video ● Colour ● Sound ● 2020
There’s an urban legend about Phil Collins’ inspiration for his 1980 hit “In the Air Tonight,” which I first heard as a teenager while getting high in a friend’s basement. According to the ritual of the legend, the song is played while a narrator tells the story, syncing the infamous analog drum break of the song with the climax of the narrative.
In March 2020, from a hillside home that faces the Hollywood sign, I began to dwell on Phil due to an experience he had one night on the Pacific Coast Highway. Driving alongside me was a woman tuned into the same radio frequency, emphatically singing along to “In the Air Tonight.”
Press: Flash Art, Filmmaker Magazine
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Screenings
New York Film Festival - New York, New York
Sundance Film Festival 2021 - Park City, Utah
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lo schermo dell'arte Film Festival - Florence, Italy
Curtocircuíto – International Film Festival - Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur - Winterthur, Switzerland
IndieLisboa International Film Festival - Lisbon, Portugal
Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand 2021 - Clermont-Ferrand, France
Seattle International Film Festival - Seattle, Washington
European Media Art Festival No. 34 - Osnabrück, Germany
37. Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg - Hamburg, Germany
Norwegian Short Film Festival - Grimstad, Norway
2021 Palm Springs International ShortFest - Palm Springs, California
PAF Olomouc 2020 festival - Olomouc, Czech Republic
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival - Hawick, Scotland
London Short Film Festival - London, England
Americana Film Festival - Barcelona, Spain
Florida Film Festival - Maitland, Florida
Film Festival Cologne - Cologne, Germany
Kassel Dokfest - Kassel, Germany
REGARD - Saguenay International Short Film Festival - Saguenay, Canada
19th International Festival Signs of the Night - Bangkok, Thailand
Pluk de Nacht Film Festival - Amsterdam/Utrecht, The Netherlands
Bueu International Short Film Festival - Pontevedra, Spain
19th Tabor Film Festival - Desinić, Croatia
Festival Internacional de Cine independiente de La Plata Festifreak - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Crested Butte Film Festival - Crested Butte, Colorado
Bolton Film Festival - Bolton, England
Nashville Film Festival - Nashville, Tennessee
Denver Film Festival - Denver, Colorado
Tacoma Film Festival - Tacoma, Washington
Cámara Lúcida International Contemporary Film Festival - Cuencam, Ecuador
Philadelphia Film Festival - Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Cork international Film Festival - Cork City, Ireland
Bucharest Short Film Festival - Bucharest, Romania
5th Floor, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève - Geneva, Switzerland
Two Days of Video Art, Schirn Kunsthalle - Frankfurt, Germany
What We Could Have Won, South London Gallery - London, England
What We Could Have Won, Bonington Gallery - Nottingham, England
Info
Watch a video interview about the work with Schirn Kunsthalle curator Rebecca Herlemann
Watch a conversation with Sundance programmer Adam Piron
Watch a conversation between NYFF programmer Aily Nash and directors Sylvia Schedelbauer (Labor of Love), Ben Rivers (Look Then Below), Mary Helena Clark (Figure Minus Fact), Burak Çevik (While Cursed by Specters) and Andrew Norman Wilson (In the Air Tonight)
Read an interview with the Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand
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