Thomas Edison Film Festival 41st Annual Season – Women’s HERstory Month Marathon celebrating women, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming filmmakers, in collaboration with the Hoboken Historical Museum

PROGRAM TWO – Streaming March 7 – 31, 2022

To reach the 3 programs, go to https://tefilmfest.org/curations.php, scroll down and click on “2022 Seasons Curations” to open list, and then select “Women’s HERstory Month Marathon”, Part 1, Part 2 or Part 3.

A conversation with filmmakers Sonali Gulati and Lynn Tomlinson and a screening of their films.

Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night – Documentary – 2006 26 min. by Sonali Gulati, Richmond, VA, US

A documentary on outsourcing of American jobs to India. Told from the perspective of an Indian living in the U.S., the film journeys into India’s call centers, where telemarketers acquire American names and accents to service the telephone-support industry of the U.S. The film incorporates animation, live action, and archival footage to explore the complexities of globalization, capitalism, and identity.

Miles and Kilometres – Experimental – 2022 2 min. by Sonali Gulati, Richmond, VA, US

A lingering haiku poem of migration, separation, dislocation, and exile.

Ten Degrees of Strange – Animation – 2022 4 min. by Lynn Tomlinson, Owings Mills, MD, US

“Ten Degrees of Strange” is a music video based on a song by Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn, from their album Lost in the Cedar Wood. Taking inspiration from The Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient story written on clay tablets, and responding to the strangeness of the global pandemic, Tomlinson’s stunning animated film is a story of loss and hope in nature told through colorful, shifting, changing, morphing, clay on glass animation.

The Elephant’s Song – Animation – 2019 8 min. by Lynn Tomlinson, Owings Mills, MD

The Elephant’s Song tells the true and tragic tale of Old Bet, the first circus elephant in America, as recounted in song by her friend, an old farm dog. Their story is portrayed in colorful, handcrafted animation, created frame by frame with clay-on-glass animation, where oil-based modeling clay is spread thinly on a glass sheet and moved frame-by-frame like a moving finger painting. Old Bet the elephant sings the choruses, which are animated with oil pastel on video frames printed from archival films, paintings, and photographs.

To learn more about the Thomas Edison Film Festival and the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, visit www.TEFilmFest.org, Jane Steuerwald, Executive Director, +1 201.856.6565, Jane@TEFilmFestival.org

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