Go Ask Joan

Go Ask Joan considers the potential for human and animal fusing, through magic, accessed through elders. Go Ask Joan uses the medium of video as site of communication -- technology to resolve conflict -- and as a place to birth new ideas for expanded family.

  • Dani & Sheilah ReStack
    Director
  • Joan Larkin
    Key Cast
    "The Oracle"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 31, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Mumok Cinema – Museum Moderner Kunst
    Vienna
    Austria
    December 11, 2019
    European premiere
Distribution Information
  • Video Data Bank
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Dani & Sheilah ReStack

ReStack collaborations have shown at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Iceberg Projects Chicago, Toronto International Film Festival, Images Film Festival, Toronto, Lyric Theater, Carrizozo, NM, Leslie Lohman Project Space, Gaa Wellfleet and The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. They have received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Hanley Award. They have been residents at The Headlands in Marin County and their newest video Go Ask Joan was made at the MacDowell Colony.

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Director Statement

Dani and Sheilah ReStack have embarked on an artistic relationship that is formally and emotionally adjacent to their domestic lives, a quotidian zone they share with their young daughter Rose. Both artists have established careers on their own. Neither Dani’ video work or Sheilah’s multimedia performance and installation work could exactly prepare us for the force of the women’s collaborative efforts. – Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope, 2017.