Eve Heller | 'Behind This Soft Eclipse'

Eve Heller (United States, 1961) is an independent filmmaker who works with film footage to re-signify it and find new poetic associations in it.

Born from a German father and an Austrian mother, she received a BA in German Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies from Hunter College and an MFA in Filmmaking from Bard College. Her work has been broadly exhibited and awarded in spaces such as the Whitney Museum, the New York Film Festival, the Pacific Film Archives, the Toronto Cinémathèque, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Louvre Museum, and the Filmmuseum in Austria.

This year, FICUNAM offers a section, Eve Heller | Behind this Soft Eclipse dedicated to the screening of the short films Last Lost (1996), Astor Place (1997), Her Glacial Speed (2001), Behind this Soft Eclipse (2004), Ruby Skin (2005), and Self-Examination Remote Control (2010). The Festival will also count with the presence of the director who will give a workshop to facilitate the needed theoretical tools and practical knowledge for the manual processing and intervention of film footage to the participants.

The workshop “Handmade Films. The Art of Exposure and Contact Printing” will be given on Monday, February 27, from 10:00 to 19:00, at the UNAM Film Archive (Filmoteca de la UNAM) as a part of the academic activities of FICUNAM, 2012.