RESIDENCY
a film by Winnie Cheung
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
LATE-NIGHT SCREENING
JUNE 22, 2023 •10 PM
@ THE LIGHT HOUSE ARTS CENTRE
(1800 ARGYLE STREET, HALIFAX)
A Q+A WITH WINNIE CHEUNG WILL FOLLOW THE SCREENING
2023 / USA / 75 mins
Directed, co-written, shot and co-edited by Winnie Cheung, Residency is a “haunting metafictional tale about female artists pushed beyond their limits at a cursed artist residency.” It was filmed and created at The Locker Room, a femme-owned creative house in Brooklyn, New York, that hosts an annual artist residency granted to ten women of various creative disciplines. The artists’ passion and excitement devolve into destructive obsessions, each woman’s demise expertly rendered by Cheung’s rich and precise choices in sound, editing and direction. Residency is a concise and concentrated evil diamond of a feature debut that feels like it could have been formed by the pressure and mania of a night at your local artist-run party house. The film’s genre (“A documentary about making a horror film, or a horror film about making a documentary?”) is as blurry and unattainable as memories from the final hours of one of those nights.
—Rebecca Falvey
TRAILER
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Winnie Cheung
Winnie is a Hong Kong born, New York based filmmaker at the cross section of non-fiction, horror and arthouse cinema. She mixes fictionalized tales with half-truths for unsettling cinematic experiences.
In 2019, Winnie’s morbid animated short Albatross Soup premiered at Sundance Hong Kong, won Vimeo Animation of the Year and Short of the Week’s “Short of the Year”.
The following year, she co-produced and edited Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, Kier-La Janisse’s epic feature length documentary on the history of folk horror which went on to win SXSW’s Midnighters Audience Award and Best Documentary at Fantasia International Film Festival.
Most recently, Winnie co-wrote, directed, shot and co-edited her first feature film Residency which premiered at the 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam.