Short Films by Lori Felker & Danièle Wilmouth
Thursday, March 5
Screening: 7pm
Annie May Swift Hall – Auditorium
1920 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Link to interactive campus map. Complimentary parking in the open air lot after 4pm. Free and open to the public.
Filmmakers in Person!
Are you curious about docu-fiction, hybrid cinema, personal filmmaking, or screen dance? Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab is proud to host acclaimed Chicago filmmakers Lori Felker and Danièle Wilmouth for a screening of their genre-crossing short films, followed by a conversation about their distinctive creative practices.
Lori Felker’s award-winning Patient (2023, 19.5 min) explores the world of simulated patients where actors perform in scenarios developed for medical training. In this hybrid docu-fiction work, reality, the private, and the performed overlap on a routine but emotionally charged day at a medical center. As Wisconsin Film Festival jury member Erica Moulton writes, “The film directly and obliquely addresses difficult questions within the medical profession, including mental health, but does so with astonishing sensitivity and humanity.”
Felker’s Spontaneous (2020,16mm to digital,14 min) is a courageous, alternately humorous and harrowing first-person account of the filmmaker experiencing a miscarriage while attending the Slamdance Film Festival.
Beauty is pain – at least in the world of Dance. A collaboration between choreographer Peter Carpenter and filmmaker Danièle Wilmouth, What Went Down (2024, 15 min) takes a humorous and irreverent approach to unpacking ideas of suffering in pursuit of physical virtuosity.
In a special sneak preview, the program will also feature Just to Say I’m Fine (2026, 15 min, work-in-progress), another Carpenter–Wilmouth collaboration. This brand-new short translates vulnerable, highly physical diaristic accounts of personal experience into movement and choreography for the camera. It tracks a journey from regret to acceptance and isolation to connection – exploring guilt, compassion and empathy.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.