PET WORLD
“That looks like a happy fish.”
A parking lot by the airport where people sit in their cars, eat takeout, and watch the planes land. A parking lot outside a mega pet store. Inspired by Amy Hempel’s short story collection, Reasons to Live, and the work of poet Bernadette Mayer. An ensemble cast riffs on what we might discover about intimacy in parking lots.
EASY GO
Depression, fetish and friendship. A shapeshifting portrait of healing bodies & eroding landscape.
Screening History: Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL
FLEX FEST, Tampa, FL
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Manitoba, CA Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair
2022
15MIN
collaboration with Sofia
Theodore-Pierce
2021
7MIN
MAGIC BATH
"Grace Mitchell's video is the most overtly diaristic and it does little to hold the viewer's hand. Magic Bath is an experiment in pure montage. Mitchell is working through footage she has gathered over a decade on various cameras, during various projects started and stopped, containing staged gestures and fleeting private moments. There are echoes of Jonas Mekas' early diary films in this collage. And though what might grip one most on a first viewing is the pleasure of various textures, sounds, and edits, there is a recurring theme of the body as it attempts to orient itself." --Ben Balcom
Screening History:
CC34 - Pisces Ascending, Minneapolis, MN
Pisces Ascending, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Scenes of Place: Milwaukee, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY Onion City: Experimental Film + Video Festival, Chicago, IL
ICDOCS, Iowa City
Kinodot, St. Petersburg, Russia Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI.
Mini Indi Film Festival, Ipsden, England Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Manitoba, CA
2018
9MIN
TOO MUCH FUN
Swirling imagery of junk food, driveways & caves. Dreamlike stories of a family and their generational relations.
Screening History:
ICDOCS, Iowa City
European Media Art Festival
Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival, Boston, MA
Transient Visions, Johnson City, NY
FRACTO, Berlin Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Winnipeg Undergound Film Festival
2020
12MIN
W GROVE RD
An internalized place defined by dreams, trespassing & stormy weather.
Screening History: Spectral Film Festival, Eau Claire, WI (Director’s Choice Award)
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
2019
7MIN
SCREENINGS:
6-20-22
curated program:
Ocean Without Fish
Soyuz Cinema
Hamburg, Germany
6-9-22
curated program:
Ocean Without Fish
ORi
Berlin, Germany
5-28-22
Too Much Fun
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival,
Manitoba, CA
4-24-22
Magic Bath
in “Anthems To Go Out On”
Nightingale Cinema
Chicago, IL
curated by Emily Eddy
4-15-22
Too Much Fun
in “Buried in the Sand”
Milwuakee Underground Film Festival
Milwaukee, WI
4-2-22
Easy Go
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival
Chicago, IL
2-25-22
Easy Go
FLEX FEST
Tampa, FL
11-27-21
Easy Go
Sunview Screening Salon
Sunview Luncheonette
Brooklyn, NYC
curated by Sofia Theodore-Pierce
10-25-2
Magic Bath
M.U.F.F Promo Screening
Cactus Club
Milwaukee, WI
6-24-21
Magic Bath
in “Get in Bitches”
The Nightingale
Chicago, IL
curated by Emily Eddy
6-6-21
Easy Go
in “if the edges start to hurt”
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
Manitoba, CA
6-6-21
WORKSHOP: On A Cellular Level
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
Manitoba, CA
6-11-21
Amusia
in “Power Ballads”
Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival
Chicago, IL
5-1-21
Too Much Fun
in “Memory Manifesto”
ICDOCS
Iowa City, IA
Awarded Honorable Mention
4-27-21
Violet
The Zome
curated by Drew Durepos & Amy Logheart
4-21-21
Too Much Fun
in “Out of Order”
European Media Art Festival
4-10-21 - 5-30-21
Amusia
solo exhibition
Demolden Video Project
Santander, Spain
4-10-21
Too Much Fun
in “Plastic Histories”
Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival
Boston, Massachusetts
3-28-21
Amusia
Femfest Video Showcase
Cactus Club
Milwaukee, WI
curated by Britany Gunderson
2-25-21
Easy Go
There Yet
Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair
Hosted by dispersed holdings
Curated by Sofia Theodore-Pierce
11-2-20
Director’s Choice Award:
W Grove Rd
in Program 1
Spectral Film Festival
Eau Claire, WI
10-23-20
Too Much Fun
in “Humanness”
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image
Johnson City, NY
10-23-20
Too Much Fun
in “Detritus”
FRACTO
Berlin, Germany
8-27-20
Magic Bath
Nothing (A) Political
Cactus Club
Milwaukee, WI
Curated by SeenScene
4-23-20
Too Much Fun
For the Feral Splendor that Remains
Cactus Club
Milwaukee, WI
Curated by Sofia Theodore-Pierce
January 2019
Magic Bath
For the Feral Splendor that Remains
Mexico City
Curated by Sofia Theodore-Pierce
11-2-19
Too Much Fun (excerpt)
GHOST $HOW X:
You Have Been Summoned
at The Open
Milwaukee, WI
10-5-19
Magic Bath
in “Some of My Parts”
WNDX “Festival of Moving Image”
Winnipeg, MB
9-29-19
W Grove Rd
Save the Archives: Orphan Night
UWM Union Cinema
Milwaukee, WI
6-2-19
Magic Bath
in program 3
Kinodot
St. Petersburg, Russia
5-29-19
Magic Bath
FemFest Film & Video Showcase
at Microlights
Milwaukee, WI
5-25-19
Sunset Song
in “Observed Ecologies”
Braziers Mini Indi Film Festival
Ipsden, England
4-27-19
W Grove Rd
in “Where We Live/Where We Stay”
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Milwaukee, WI
4-26-19
Magic Bath
in “step-by-step”
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Milwaukee, WI
4-19-19
Magic Bath
in “Humming With A Closed Mouth”
ICDOCS
Iowa City, IA
3-21-19
Magic Bath
in “The Truth! Ha!”
Onion City Film + Video Festival
Chicago, IL
2-22-19
Sunset Song
in “WI/IL Short Slot”
Beloit International Film Festival
Beloit, WI
7-14-18
Magic Bath
Pisces Ascending
curated by Ariel Teal
Echo Park Film Center
6-2-18
Top Thrill
in “Personal Non-Fiction (or: This is Not About Blaming My Mom)”
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
Manitoba, CA
5-27-18
Magic Bath
Pisces Ascending
curated by Ariel Teal
Minneapolis, MN
4-26-18
Sunset Song
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival
Morgantown, WV
4-22-18
Sunset Song
in “Mazes, spaces”
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Milwaukee, WI
4-7-18
Top Thrill
in program 7
That One Film Festival
Muncie, IN
3-9-18
Sunset Song
in “Growing”
Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival
Chicago, IL
2-4-18
Sunset Song
in “Why Don’t They Fly Away?”
aDifferent festival
Milwaukee, WI
12-6-17
Sunset Song
SEFF Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
10-20-17
Sunset Song
in “Division”
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image
Johnson City, NY
Sept., 2017
Sunset Song
Grand Rapids Feminist Film Festival
Grand Rapids, MI
9-21-2017
Sunset Song
Video! Video! Video Festival
Chicago, IL
6-23-17
Another’s Window
Eye Myth Film
Toronto, Ontario
6-16-17
Another as a Second Self: Video Work by Grace Mitchell
at The Nightingale
Chicago, IL
May, 2017
Ilse, Irene
in “Drama Class”
Video! Video! Zine
Chicago, IL
4-26-17
Yards
in “My Body, My Self”
Video! Video! Zine
at The Nightingale
Chicago, IL
4-21-17
Top Thrill
in program 2
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Milwaukee, WI
1-21-17
Another’s Window & Top Thrill
Riverwest FemFest Film Showcase
Milwaukee, WI
12-2-16
Top Thrill
SEFF Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
Dec., 2016
Top Thrill
Grand Rapids Feminist Film Festival
Grand Rapids, MI
9-6-16
Ilse, Irene
in “Often Undocumented Daily Texture”
at UWM Union Cinema
Milwaukee, WI
8-21-16
Ilse, Irene
Video! Video! Video Festival
Chicago, IL
5-21-16
Ilse, Irene
in “No Gods, No Masters”
Video! Video! Zine
Chicago, IL
5-16-16
Top Thrill
70th Student Film Festival
at UWM Union Cinema
Milwaukee, WI
2015
Yards
The Unstitute: “From Inside the Beehive and Back Again”
Chicago, IL
9-8-15
Yards
in Color My World
at UWM Union Cinema
Milwaukee, WI
5-3-15
Matter
in program 5
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Milwaukee, WI