Josh Weissbach is an experimental filmmaker. His cinematic practice focuses on the relationship between the intimate and the uncanny within domestic spaces. Central to this process is an investigation of the visual agency of the (un)built form and the manner in which it implicates a history of familial trauma. His practice also considers natural spaces that are defined by the vitality of matter and its transfer of force.
His 16mm films and digital videos have been shown worldwide in such venues as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, European Media Art Festival, Mono No Aware, Chicago Underground Film Festival, 25 FPS Festival, First Look at Museum of the Moving Image, and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. He has won jury prizes at Montreal Underground, Videoex, ICDOCS, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Berlin Revolution Film Festival, and Haverhill Experimental Film Festival. He is the recipient of a 2021 Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, a 2020 Moving Image Fund Early Development Grant from the LEF Foundation, a 2018 LightPress Grant from the Interbay Cinema Society, a 2015 LEF Fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, a 2013 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Emerging Artists from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and a 2008 Cary Grant Film Award from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA.
EIGHTEEN MILL STREET
2024 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 14' 05 / 61 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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ZERO WOODS OF THE WILD PLACE
2023 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 12' 30 / 55 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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38 RIVER ROAD
2016 / 16mm / color / sound and silent / single screen / 7' 14 / 41 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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601 REVIR DRIVE
2016 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 8' 40 / 41 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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106 RIVER ROAD
2011 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 5' 53 / 41 € distribution: Digital file on server |