Home Cinema: [Day One] Home When You Return + A Ghost Story

Event information

Running order:

7p.m. - Recorded Guest Introduction by director Carl Elsaesser for Home When You Return

7:05p.m. - Home When You Return

7:36p.m. - Break

7:50p.m. - Introduction to A Ghost Story

7:55p.m. - A Ghost Story

9:30p.m. - Programme close

too close to home - understanding home as memory

For this season, the venue will be dressed to resemble a living room. The curator would like to encourage you to bring your own trinkets, or pieces of home, to take part in shaping the space and joining a collective effort to make it into a Home. At the end of the evening, you can take back your own trinkets or, if you should choose to do so, swap it with another piece in the venue. Each ticket also comes with a zine, made in partnership with Shoes Off, a developing network and arts collective founded in London.

Content warnings for both films for discussions of death and mortality.



Home When You Return dir. Carl Elsaesser (USA, 2021, 31 mins)

A tender yet oppressive experimental documentary. Elsaesser blurs faces and names, weaves in handwritten letters and melodramas by Joan Thurber Baldwin, to create an evocative portrait of his grandmother. A dedication to our matriarchs and the way they build homes out of houses.

A Ghost Story dir. David Lowery (USA, 2017, 93 mins)

Lowery’s quiet revelation starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara is a different take on the ‘haunted house’. There are no jump scares here; just chalk outlines of grief. This film explores the marks we leave on the places we live in and the people we live with. An ode to the shadows we leave on our domestic spaces, and how they ring across space and time.