Dani ReStack
Filmmaker and visual artist Dani RESTACK holds an MFA in both film and video from Bard College and in studio arts from the University of Illinois. She is an associate professor of drawing at the Ohio State University and her single-channel videos have screened at IFFR, Chicago Underground Film Festival and Union Docs, among others. Her drawings and videos are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Vassar, UIC, Earlham College and Yale University. ReStack describes the creation of her moving-image works as a process of “accumulation and excision”. She lives and works together with her partner Sheilah ReStack, with whom she forms a productive artistic collaboration.
Filmography
(selection, all short, co-dir) Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (2017), Come Coyote (2019)
Dani ReStack at IFFR
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Come Coyote
Family, Feminism, LGBTQ, Love: Come Coyote evokes the reproductive challenges of same-sex couples with sensual poetry, humour and a hint of despair.