09/19/2020
That One Film Festival Winner:
Stones for Thunder, Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney
3, 2, 1 . . . a TV director counts down, paltry images become actors, and bodies find sync.
“Stones for Thunder riffs on the increasing inseparability of public and private space through an emphasis on the televisual and technological mediation of the world. It’s disjointedness is disconcerting and jarring; one is increasingly uncertain how to reconcile the fragmentation. Points of connection are lost, within the film and, by extension, within the world we inhabit.”
—Patrick Friel, Cine-File
Bio: Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney are Chicago-based interdisciplinary artists working primarily in film, video, live broadcast, and installation. Andrew and Kera have been collaborators for the past eight years and together have created many live performance broadcasts, installations, and short films and videos. Together they also founded and direct ACRE TV, an artist-made livestreaming tele-vision network (ACRETV.org). Their works have screened and exhibited at venues including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the American Film Institute, Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, UnionDocs, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Other Cinema, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival and Echo Park Film Center among others. They have completed residencies together at Signal Culture and ACRE and were named “2018 Film 50: Chicago Screen Gems” by Newcity Magazine.
Thank you, Kera and Andrew, for sharing your beautiful film!
