Frameline50: CAMP

In her second feature film, Avalon Fast (who collaborated with Alice Maio Mackay in The Serpent’s Skin and Louise Weard in Castration Movie i and iii) announces herself as David Lynch’s heiress-apparent with this genre-bending work of “girl horror.”

Emily (Zola Grimmer) is a young woman surrounded by tragedies of her own making and, when she is unable to cope with her grief, her father signs her up to be a counselor at a camp for troubled youth deep in the country. When she arrives, she finds that the other counselors are outcasts and screw-ups, too — they are, literally, a coven. With their help, Emily discovers the magic — dark and light, ominous and ecstatic — that her grief can channel.

With music and sound design that wraps you in its warm embrace and lifts you into the stratosphere, and a visual style that is as unnerving as it is operatic, CAMP is a landmark work.

Expected Guests: Avalon Fast