Glued & Screwed #33 • Nederlands Filmhuis Denhaag

Katherine May Fannon, Dan Guthrie, Annemarie Wadlow, Lucy Cordes Engelman, Jay Rosenblatt

Glued & Screwed #33

The second edition in a series of three programs titled Unearthing the Archives! We will embark on a journey focussing on the relationship between the filmmaker and the archive.

Meditation is the second edition in a series of three programs titled Unearthing the Archives!. A deep-dive into the world of archival films. The first edition Excavation features films where the archive takes central stage and the filmmaker intervenes through editing. This time around it’s the relationship between the filmmaker and the archive that we focus on. Featuring intimate stories and personal insights, archival footage becomes a tool utilized by the filmmaker to tell a (personal) story, share introspection, or deliver powerful realizations.

Present at the screening will be Dan Guthrie (UK) who is currently a resident artist at Rijksacademie, and artist duo Lucy Cordes Engelman (US) and Annemarie Wadlow (UK) for a brief Q&A after the screening.

Film programme:

Katherine May Fannon
Helga Dorothea Fannon | United Kingdom | 2025 | 5 minutes

Driven by a single photograph that seemed to hold pieces of myself and my sister, I began interviewing my father to uncover the life of his mother, Katherine May Fannon, and her roots in Liverpool.

Black strangers
Dan Guthrie | United Kingdom | 2022 | 8 minutes

After seeing him mentioned on a Bishop’s Transcript held in Gloucestershire Archives, Dan goes for a walk in the woods in search of Daniel, a man buried in Nympsfield on the 31st of December 1719 and described on the document as ‘a black stranger’. Whilst walking, Dan talks directly to Daniel, speculating about the parallels between him and his namesake and wrestling aloud with the problems that come with trying to read the archive at face value and fill in its gaps.black strangers was commissioned for Right of Way, a new feature-length programme that mixes stunning new artists’ commissions with historical archive films that give a bigger picture of questions of access and inclusion in the UK countryside.

Heavenly and Harrowing
Annemarie Wadlow, Lucy Cordes Engelman | Netherlands | 2024 | 29 minutes

Two amateur filmmakers attempt to make a love poem inspired by the Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky. Can paying homage be considered the ultimate poetic gesture? Is it the ultimate act of love? Using the medium of analogue film as their compass, artists Annemarie Wadlow and Lucy Cordes Engelman collaborate for the first time to explore the devotion of 'the amateur' home-movie maker in contrast to the professional filmmaker. Via the ever-morphing heavenly and harrowing nature of the cinematic image, and inspired by the philosophies of avant-garde filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, the film explores relationships that are formed by referencing, acknowledging, and celebrating the work of others who have come before.

Phantom Limb
Jay Rosenblatt | United States | 2005 | 28 minutes

The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of their child and the entire family experienced indescribable pain. Phantom Limb uses this personal story as a point of departure. Whether it is a loss through death or divorce, the stages of grieving are the same. Individuals often go through denial, anger, bargaining, depression and, ultimately, some kind of acceptance, in order to heal. The film is loosely structured according to these stages. Interspersed throughout this poetic documentary are interviews with a cemetery owner, a phantom limb patient and an author of a book about evidence for life after death. Phantom Limb reminds viewers that while grief is painful and isolating, it is a reminder to each of us that life is impermanent.

Regisseur Katherine May Fannon, Dan Guthrie, Annemarie Wadlow, Lucy Cordes Engelman, Jay Rosenblatt
Land Verenigd Koninkrijk, Nederland, Verenigde Staten
Taal Engels
Ondertiteling Engels
Speelduur 120 min

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