Under the Radar is Women and Hollywood’s newest feature. Published monthly, the post offers a chance for us to highlight works by and/or about women that haven’t received big releases or significant coverage in the press, but are wholly worthy of attention.
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The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival (AOBFF) is highlighting independent films that have some kind of connection to the famed New York City borough. For this month’s Under the Radar we chose two women filmmakers from AOBFF, both of whom use Brooklyn as the backdrop for exploring the theme of memory in relationships.
“Trauma is a Time Machine” – Written and Directed by Angelica Zollo
In Angelica Zollo’s dramatic feature “Trauma is a Time Machine” we follow the main character Helen as she suffers a rape by her boyfriend. This trauma brings up memories and buried secrets of growing up in an abusive home. Ultimately, the film is a cinematic exploration of the painful consequences of abuse and assault that victims must face as they heal.
A photographer, writer, musician, and director, Zollo’s prior work includes producing the Whoopi Goldberg-starring short film “Happy Birthday to Me” and the music video for artist Kate Fenner’s song “The Yield.” Her play “The Last” also ran in the SheNYC Summer Theater Festival in 2017. “Trauma is a Time Machine” is Zollo’s feature-length debut.
Upcoming Screening: Wednesday, June 6, 7:30 PM @ Maroney Theater at St. Francis College (World Premiere)
“Brooklyn Roses” – Written and Directed by Christine Noschese
Like Zollo, in the film “Brooklyn Roses” director Christine Noschese revisits family memories to make sense of the present. Raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, the film focuses on Noschese’s view of her late mother’s feminism and their mother-daughter relationship. Having shot a fictional narrative short “June Roses” in her childhood home where her mother lived at the time, several years later Noschese re-engages the actors from that film in “a documentary/narrative hybrid that explores the intersection between truth and memory; autobiography and fiction” states the film’s description.
Noschese’s other credits include doc feature “Metropolitan Avenue,” doc short”Keep on Steppin,” and comedic short “Mary Therese.” An activist and former director of the National Congress of Neighborhood Women, her films have been awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship and a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts.
