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In this new work by Film/Video Studio alums Jennifer Reeder and Nancy Andrews, a lonely astronaut confronts an awkward love triangle between her past, present, and future selves while isolated in a space station—where she may have been orbiting for years.
Conceived of by longtime friends Reeder and Andrews while the two were working as artists in residence in the Wexner Center's Film/Video Studio on their individual films Blood Below the Skin and The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes, respectively, I Like Tomorrow is a sci-fi musical that combines live action and animation. As Reeder and Andrews recount, “after work one evening, over cocktails and possibly complaining about the then recently released film Gravity, there appeared a pen and a napkin and an idea about a lonely lady astronaut. From the start, the short film was conceived with actress Michole Briana White in mind. Its influences include Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon, Stanisław Lem’s Star Diaries, and Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars.”
The lonely female character on the edge of a world is a staple of Andrews’s work, and the complex relationships and messy love triangle draw from Reeder’s oeuvre. Both artists have a penchant for humor and White’s performance shows off her ability to create both gravitas and giggles. (11 mins., HD video)
Andrews and Reeder joined us this July for a virtual conversation about the project and its making; watch that for free on our blog and enjoy a presentation of the film above starting August 2.
I Like Tomorrow
Featuring Michole Brianna White as Captain Regina Lamb, Rae, and Reggie Written, directed and produced by Nancy Andrews and Jennifer Reeder
Executive Producer: Walter M. Robinson Associate Producer: Steven Hudosh CInematography: Christopher Rejano Sound Recording: Jason Culver Editor and film finishing: Charlie Kessler Music and lyrics: Nancy Andrews Song mix and additional instrumentation : Zach Soares Ms. White’s vocal recorded by Michael Wells, Wishing Well Studios
Animation: Nancy Andrews and Lauren Benzaquen Production design and build: Steve Reber and John Henley Hair and makeup: Lori J. Washington Production Assistant: Lorena Carmina 16mm processing and scan: Cinelab Gear provided by Canon Sag/Aftra
Thanks to: Elizabeth Pratt and Margo White
Image courtesy of the filmmakers
Nancy Andrews, photo: Corrine de Korver
Jennifer Reeder, photo: Kinga Michalska
Nancy Andrews’s hybrid work includes films, drawings, objects, installations, performance, music, and publications. These works are rendered with characteristic humor and inhabited by characters who are at times visionary but always social misfits. The Museum of Modern Art has collected six of her experimental films. She is a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in filmmaking. Her films have screened at MoMA, Pacific Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, Jerusalem Film Festival, Flaherty Film Seminars, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Taiwan International Animation Festival, and International Film Festival Rotterdam, among other venues. She is currently working as an artist in residence in the Film/Video Studio on a new film, The Bloody Room.
Jennifer Reeder was recently named by Bong Joon Ho as a filmmaker to watch in the 2020s. She constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma, and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after-school specials, amateur music videos, and magical realism. These films, many of which have been edited in the center’s Film/Video Studio, have shown around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival, Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial.
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Cardinal Health Kaufman Development
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Rohauer Collection Foundation
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Nancy Andrews and Jennifer Reeder
