Super8/B&W/Sound/ 3 minutes 2 seconds

Conflating three technological innovations of late 1940s America – the increasingly portable typewriter, film camera and electric chair – the film marks the often disparate registers of ‘factuality’ that can determine our understanding of a period.

* A phrase once popular in children’s games such as hide and seek. It signals either that players may come out into the open with impunity without losing the game or there is a change of sides or that the game is over.

Screening History:

2018  Crossroads SF Cinematheque/SFMOMA USA
2018 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, UK
2017  61st BFI London Film Festival, BFI Southbank UK

FRANCESCA RUSALEN ‘OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE’ L’EMERGERE DEL POSSIBILE 17 APRIL 2018