"I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside." - Ingrid Bergman
A cry for help in the form of a pop song. A village cast as a simulacrum of the past by Oliver Stone and Ridley Scott, Pasolini and Scorsese. As the future starts devouring the present, how can we hope to remember the past? Pics or it never existed.
For Ingrid and Roberto
Screening History:
$100 Film Festival, Calgary, AL, Canada
Best 16mm/Audience Award
March 23, 2017
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, IA, USA
April 20, 2017
Notes From The Interior, Cineworks,Vancouver, BC, Canada
May 12, 2017
New Works Salon XXXIX, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
May 21, 2017
FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin, Germany
May 21, 2017
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, MB, Canada
June 3, 2017
Oak Cliff Film Festival, Dallas, TX, USA
June 10, 2017
San Diego Underground Film Festival, CA, USA
August 25, 2017
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY, USA
October 20, 2017
Light Field, San Francisco, CA, USA
December 9, 2017
Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
June 8 & 9, 2018
Shapes and Hues, Uplink Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
July 14, 2018
Spectral Film Festival, Stevens Point, WI, USA
April 6, 2019
Versus: Josh Lewis & Ross Meckfessel, Artist Film Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
August 23, 2019
Ross Meckfessel Retrospective, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Sydney, Australia
October 3, 2019
Reverberation in Stone: Films by Ross Meckfessel, the latent image, Oakland, CA, USA
February 8, 2020
Zumzeig Coop, The Only Constant is Change, Barcelona, Spain
November 9, 2021
Dogmilk Films, The Discomfort of Everything , Melbourne, Australia
October 14 - 20, 2022
Transient Visions 10th Anniversary Program, Online
October 14 - 20, 2022
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Experimental Tuesdays: Films By Ross Meckfessel, WI, USA
September 26, 2023
Kurzfilmprogramm Radau Kollektiv, DUNST, Bremen, Germany
May 4, 2024
UnionDocs, Scanning/Processing: Josh Lewis & Ross Meckfessel, New York, USA
April 3, 2025
Binghamton University, Visiting Film & Video Artists & Speakers Series, NY, USA
October 23, 2025