Motherhood, intimacy and partnership told through fragments, scraps from a visual diary, DIY aesthetics, the funk of McFadden & Whitehead and clever editing that always catches the viewer off guard. A fascinating look at what it means to be a mother and a lesbian in contemporary society. (JFM)
-Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival - 2019
-Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival - 2020
-DocLisboa - 2019
Sheilah Wilson ReStack was born and raised in Caribou River, Nova Scotia and is currently Associate Professor Photography at Denison University. She has BFA from NSCAD University and MFA from Goldmiths College. Most recently she has been working on projects analyzing the traces between history, story and the land. She uses photography, video, and text as performative and documentary tools to pick through the seams of narrative and image.
Dani ReStack is an assistant professor of drawing at the Ohio State University. In 2003 she received an MFA in studio arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and, in 2009, an MFA in film/video from Bard College. She has screened her single-channel videos at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, MoMA PS1, Cine Cycle, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Union Docs, Views from the Avant-Garde and Anthology Film Archives. Leventhal Restack has been the recipient of the Wexner Center Film/Video Residency, the Milton Avery Fine Arts Award, and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Visual Arts Grant. Her drawings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Yale University.