RESIDENCY
dir. Winnie Cheung, 2023
75 min. United States.
In English.
screening with
MY BODY IS A CAR
dir. Lucy Rosa Blanca Gaehring, 2023
3 min. United States.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 5 PM followed by Q+A with filmmakers Winnie Cheung and Lucy Rosa Blanca Gaehring
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Spectacle is thrilled to host a one-night-only pre-Halloween screening of New York City filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Winnie Cheung’s RESIDENCY, paired with Lucy Rosa Blanca Gaehring’s short film MY BODY IS A CAR (2023).
RESIDENCY was filmed during an interdisciplinary artist residency hosted by The Locker Room, a Brooklyn based underground art space. Director/writer/cinematographer/editor Winnie Cheung taps into the ethos of DIY cinema, leveraging the gallery as the set and her cohort of artists as performers.
RESIDENCY boldly redefines the legacy of Kenneth Anger, the Cinema of Transgression and No Wave Cinema. The film is a love letter that taps into the frenzied emotional psychogeography of New York City where the narrative structure is deliberately fragmented, creating an immersive experience that mirrors the unattainable nature of memory. In Cheung’s own words: “What if Warhol made a horror film about life at The Factory?”
“RESIDENCY and MY BODY IS A CAR both distill New York City’s relentless, claustrophobic energy into personal vessels for inner peace and renewal.” – Winnie Cheung
“(RESIDENCY) resurrects the collective spirit that once defined New York City’s artistic ecosystem, yet the zombified venture spirals into derangement as the film shifts into the mode of funhouse horror.” – Artforum
“RESIDENCY is part of the North American new wave of indie micro-budget genre features.” – Variety
“A concise and concentrated evil diamond of a feature debut.” – Filmmaker Rebecca Falvey
WINNIE CHEUNG is a Hong Kong born, New York based filmmaker at the cross section of non-fiction, horror and arthouse cinema. She mixes fictionalized tales with half-truths for unsettling cinematic experiences. In 2019, Winnie’s morbid animated short Albatross Soup premiered at Sundance Hong Kong, won Vimeo Animation of the Year and Short of the Week’s “Short of the Year”. The following year, she co-produced and edited Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, Kier-La Janisse’s epic feature length documentary on the history of folk horror which went on to win SXSW’s Midnighters Audience Award and Best Documentary at Fantasia International Film Festival. Residencyy is Winnie’s first feature film which she co-wrote, directed, shot and co-edited.
LUCY ROSA BLANCA GAEHRING is a trans-femme latin(e) interdisciplinary artist from Miami, based in New York, working primarily in performance with a practice that includes dance, poetry, and sound/video. As a trans Uruguayan-Mexican living in the United States, she questions the binaries of the colonial and patriarchal Western framework that we live under. She often channels feminist stories of melodramatic heartbreak into site-specific performance. It is important to her to continue blurring the line between art-making and community building. She is currently studying at the School of Visual Arts’ BFA ‘Visual & Critical Studies’ program.