Zachary Epcar
Zachary EPCAR (1987, USA) is an experimental filmmaker based in Oakland, CA. He was educated at Bard College and is currently on a Master’s programme in Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is also co-organiser and co-programmer of Light Field, an annual exhibition of experimental cinema in his home town, San Francisco. Epcar uses “startling cinematography to turn everyday places and activities into lush, emotive palettes”.
Filmography
(all short) The Salariat in Parts (2009), A Time Shared Unlimited (2010), Under the Heat Lamp an Opening (2014), Night Swells (2015), Return to Forms (2016), Life After Love (2018), Billy (2019), The Canyon (2021), Sinking Feeling (2024)
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Zachary Epcar op IFFR
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Sinking Feeling
Zachary Epcar | 21' | USA | International premiere
Yuppies recall their sweaty, heaving, panting commute when their train gets stuck in a tunnel. -
Life After Love
Zachary Epcar | 8' | USA | None
A shifting in the light of the lot, where parked cars become containers for a collective experience of estrangement. -
Billy
Zachary Epcar | 8' | USA | European premiere
Re-enactment of a scene from a famous American primetime soap becomes a psychodrama full of petit bourgeois fears in tasteless interiors. -
A Time Shared Unlimited
Zachary Epcar | 10' | Czech Republic | None
This happy film is set in the near future and extols life’s little joys, consumed alone or together.