Holographic Will
2023, 16mm, 5:30
“A domestic swirl filmed while the building was being sold. How much longer can we afford to stay? A kaleidoscopic portrait of destabilization during the struggle to stay in a rent-controlled apartment amidst an affordable housing crisis.
Shot frame by frame, moving the camera between every image. Single frames move forward in time, creating afterimage combinations without superimpositions. A phased drum machine soundtrack emphasizes the percussive quality of the image.
With gratitude to neighbors and the Los Angeles Tenants Union Northeast Local.
“One of the very best films of the program, Mike Stoltz’s Holographic Will, is a wild, pulsating movement through a domestic space. Stoltz puts his whole camera in and shakes it all about, resulting in a swishing, painterly flicker, impressing the architectural forms onto the screen while we catch slight glimpses of the details of living: a sofa, a picture on the wall, a lamp. The light through the back windows of the rooms essentially ‘draws’ Holographic Will, producing bright, colorful smears which periodically coalesce into a legible cinematic space...We experience the tension between cinematic abstraction and a concrete social condition, in this case the tyranny of investment capital.”
-Michael Sicinski, In Review Online
SCREENINGS:
2023 Media City Film Festival
2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam
2024 First Look Festival - Museum of the Moving Image
2024 Los Angeles Festival of Movies 2024 DIFFUSION Festival
2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival
2024 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
2024 Moviate Film Festival
2024 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
2024 Revolutions Per Minute Festival
2024 Engauge Film Festival