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Annie, wake up

'Annie, wake up' is a non-narrative, assemblage film that uses the device of a fictional protagonist, Annie, to reflect on feelings of home, both comforting and oppressive. The ten chapters explore meanings both domestic and communal. Home is a domicile, a community, a geography, and an ideology. The film collages heterogeneous media sources like 8mm home movies, stop motion, direct animation, and archival sound to construct layers of feeling within the frame and throughout the soundtrack. 'Annie, wake up' creates a reflective space that is sometimes brooding, sometimes miraculous, perhaps both.

  • Laura Ivins
    Director
  • Evan Whikehart
    Composer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature
  • Genres:
    assemblage, collage
  • Runtime:
    1 hour
  • Completion Date:
    June 21, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    Czech, English
  • Shooting Format:
    8mm, super 8mm, 16mm, digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Laura Ivins

Laura Ivins is an experimental filmmaker, film critic, and independent scholar based in Southern Indiana. She uses collage and assemblage techniques to explore multiplicity of perspective, working with a heterogeneity of formats that includes small-gauge film, digital and analog video, and found footage. Her films have screened at the Oaxaca FilmFest, Oxford Film Festival, and Bare Bones International Film and Music Festival, and she has exhibited multimedia installations in collaboration with local artists, writers, and musicians.

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Director Statement

‘Annie, wake up’ has been a decade-long endeavor. I began collecting footage for it in 2012, but it was a few years before the intention of the film began to take shape. Through this film, I grapple with my own conflicted feelings of home, a concept that is fraught within U.S. culture, even while finding a sense of home is critical to one’s well-being.

Assemblage techniques are critical to this work, as the heterogeneity of my source materials invites the audience to hold onto paradox. Home movies shot on 8mm feel inherently nostalgic, but the oppressions of the past cannot be romanticized. Sometimes one finds “home” outside their actual house, and a domestic space can feel alternately comforting or sinister.