Val preceded by Catherine and The Amateurist

Director: Dean Fleischer Camp, Miranda July, Mara Mckevitt

2023 / 43min / DCP

Making its New York theatrical premiere, Mckevitt’s Val presents a gripping study in the shifting power between two women—employer and employee—that takes place during one stifling afternoon at the office, lensed by the formidable Sean Price Williams. Screens with Dean Fleischer Camp’s wryly wrought Catherine, co-written with Jenny Slate, who stars as a woman who returns to her workplace from sick leave to find an uncanny new atmosphere has taken hold; and Miranda July’s The Amateurist, a squirm-inducing surveillance culture tragicomedy in which one woman observes and describes the onscreen actions of another (both played by the director).

Program
Catherine (Dean Fleischer-Camp, 2014), 14 min
The Amateurist (Mirandy July, 1998), 14 min
Val (Mara Mckevitt, 2023), 15min

Post-screening salon featuring Whitney Mallett, Mara Mckevitt, and actors Emily Allan and Alicia Novella Vasquez on Saturday, May 25th