Dir. Geneveive Newman
Resonance explores the intersection of videographic criticism and the rhetoric of gendered and sexual violence. This film uses audio of Amber Heard's testimony during the Depp v. Heard defamation trial and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony in the Congressional Hearing to appoint Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Blending personal narration, found footage, and experimental sound design, this short probes notions of victimization, testimony, and representability.
Lacuna
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Dir. Geneveive Newman
Lacuna mines the filmmaker's personal diaries to explore the nuances of different but interconnected forms of abuse, how emotional abuse is enabled, and the havoc it wreaks on a life.
Leakage
Winner of the Cinema Award
Doctober Collegiate Film Festival
Dir. Geneveive Newman
DP Zoe Wall
This short, non-fiction experimental explores three genres of sexual violence narration: Open Letters, personal journals, and official complaints. Each genre in its own act is complicated or troubled. This short film is specifically produced with rape victim-survivors in mind as a primary audience, and as such, works actively and intentionally to build trust while delving into difficult and varied conversations about sexual violence.
Dead Water
Dir. Geneveive Newman
DP Zoe Wall
This experimental short eschews narrative in favor of impending dread in the face of decayed femininity.
Falling
Dir. Geneveive Newman
In one single shot, played in reverse, this film features edited audio clips from public domain radio broadcasts at the onset of the Korean War, interspersed with "Dimension X," highlighting the eerie confluence of fantasy and reality during the Cold War era.
Anxiety
Dir. Geneveive Newman
Shot primarily in extreme close-up and utilizing intentionally unsteady camerawork, this piece strips away character and narrative to put all focus on tone and mood.
Collective
Dir. Geneveive Newman
Composer: Lia Knight
This film foregrounds the process and experience of trauma from one survivor, folded in with the unique aesthetic experiences of multiple other survivors of rape and intimate partner violence in order to create a collective vision of the experience. By representing this collective experience, I hope to work towards a collective response to sexual and gendered violence.
