Saturday 29 March, 17:00
A programme of filmic rhythm and blues – of love and fainting cheerleaders, and of our capacity for knowing and feeling in a present infused with trauma.
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Sarah Ballard is a filmmaker and educator based in Milwaukee, WI. Her work has screened at festivals such as CROSSROADS, Antimatter, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Light Matter Experimental Film and Media Arts Festival, and Engauge Experimental Film Festival, among others. Sarah is a recipient of the 2023 Princess Grace Award in Film and is a Lecturer in the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Full Out (2025), Heat Spells (2023), to be with you (grotto) (2023), There, Where She is Not (2022)
A programme of filmic rhythm and blues – of love and fainting cheerleaders, and of our capacity for knowing and feeling in a present infused with trauma.
In 19th century Paris, at the Salpêtrière Hospital, patients were hypnotized on stage to reproduce the symptoms of hysteria for public audiences. Over a century later, high school cheerleaders are fainting en masse…