SUN 14 DEC
Coming Soon to
Chelsea Theater
90 mins |
Rated
Not Rated (Contains nudity.)
Sunday, December 14th @ 7PM
Join the Chelsea Theater, Fatwood Studio, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, and Dani & Sheilah ReStack for their embodied, bold, and feeling films and for a chance to meet the artists for a conversation following the program.
THE FERAL DOMESTIC TRILOGY (2017-2021)
Total Film Runtime: 54min
Total Program Runtime: 90min
STRANGELY ORDINARY THIS DEVOTION (2017)
27min
Strangely Ordinary This Devotion is a visceral exploration of feral domesticity, queer desire, and fantasy in a world under the threat of climate change. Utilizing and exploding archetypes, the film offers a radical approach to collaboration and the conception of family. – Aily Nash
COME COYOTE (2019)
8min
Come Coyote continues the investigation of environment, queer desire, motherhood, and collaboration. This 8-minute video brings together moments culled from our own life and fabricated scenes. One of the central themes in this chapter is the idea of reproduction and its implications — the reality/fantasy of both logistics and technology of queer reproduction, and the variations of our individual commitment.
FUTURE FROM INSIDE (2021)
19min
Future From Inside is the last in the trilogy begun in 2016, by Dani and Sheilah ReStack (also including Strangely Ordinary this Devotion and Come Coyote.) The work traces the ReStack collaboration, as it manifests in life and in work. The porous line between real and fantasy is further elaborated in this video — FFI utilizes body doubles, a continuing journey for answers and oracles, animal synthesis, queer desire, children and radical community to weave a fragmented future. This final offering of the trilogy does not offer answers to the personal and societal conflict, but continues the possibility of the feral domestic as a way to inhabit the space of living to yield surprising results.
Fatwood is honored to host an evening with the trailblazing duo Dani ReStack & Sheilah ReStack — screening the full Feral Domestic trilogy, made between 2017–2021. These films don’t just depict domestic life — they reimagine it as radical, generative, and alive: a space where love, desire, fear, fantasy, care, and resistance co-exist. They describe the trilogy as a marker of time, queer desire, family, place, relation and conflict.
The ReStacks present intimately rendered, and daring new possibilities for collaboration within their work and family structure, carving out spaces of invention in the quotidian, imbuing radical gestures in the everyday.
“Being collaborators is like being life partners—full of compromise, and difficulty, and beauty. I think both of us see our collaboration as a domain that is somehow sacred; it allows us to recharge and feel committed to what we are together. The work we make is about the domestic, and I want to honor that as a site of creation and resistance; but I also don’t want to deny how difficult day to day life can be, and how it can be hard to see things other than as a long list of chores to be checked off. Artistic collaboration is our jumpcut to something else.” – Sheilah ReStack, Bomb Magazine
“To live a feral domestic life is an aspiration, a refusal to be domesticated by capitalism. It’s an idea of the home being a generative place rather than simply a place of respite. Let’s sing at the top of our lungs while doing dishes! Let’s chase each other and roar like lions in the dining room! Of course we have to make dentist appointments, get the car fixed, and pay taxes; but we are refusing to let capitalism infuse us with fear.” – Dani ReStack, Bomb Magazine
Dani and Sheilah ReStack live in Columbus, Ohio with their two daughters. They are committed to the domestic as a place of unruly possibility – a portal for emotional logic, fragmentation and new narratives that allows the quotidian to inform the imaginary.
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Sunday, December 14th @ 7PM
Join the Chelsea Theater, Fatwood Studio, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, and Dani & Sheilah ReStack for their embodied, bold, and feeling films and for a chance to meet the artists for a conversation following the program.
THE FERAL DOMESTIC TRILOGY (2017-2021)
Total Film Runtime: 54min
Total Program Runtime: 90min
STRANGELY ORDINARY THIS DEVOTION (2017)
27min
Strangely Ordinary This Devotion is a visceral exploration of feral domesticity, queer desire, and fantasy in a world under the threat of climate change. Utilizing and exploding archetypes, the film offers a radical approach to collaboration and the conception of family. – Aily Nash
COME COYOTE (2019)
8min
Come Coyote continues the investigation of environment, queer desire, motherhood, and collaboration. This 8-minute video brings together moments culled from our own life and fabricated scenes. One of the central themes in this chapter is the idea of reproduction and its implications — the reality/fantasy of both logistics and technology of queer reproduction, and the variations of our individual commitment.
FUTURE FROM INSIDE (2021)
19min
Future From Inside is the last in the trilogy begun in 2016, by Dani and Sheilah ReStack (also including Strangely Ordinary this Devotion and Come Coyote.) The work traces the ReStack collaboration, as it manifests in life and in work. The porous line between real and fantasy is further elaborated in this video — FFI utilizes body doubles, a continuing journey for answers and oracles, animal synthesis, queer desire, children and radical community to weave a fragmented future. This final offering of the trilogy does not offer answers to the personal and societal conflict, but continues the possibility of the feral domestic as a way to inhabit the space of living to yield surprising results.
Fatwood is honored to host an evening with the trailblazing duo Dani ReStack & Sheilah ReStack — screening the full Feral Domestic trilogy, made between 2017–2021. These films don’t just depict domestic life — they reimagine it as radical, generative, and alive: a space where love, desire, fear, fantasy, care, and resistance co-exist. They describe the trilogy as a marker of time, queer desire, family, place, relation and conflict.
The ReStacks present intimately rendered, and daring new possibilities for collaboration within their work and family structure, carving out spaces of invention in the quotidian, imbuing radical gestures in the everyday.
“Being collaborators is like being life partners—full of compromise, and difficulty, and beauty. I think both of us see our collaboration as a domain that is somehow sacred; it allows us to recharge and feel committed to what we are together. The work we make is about the domestic, and I want to honor that as a site of creation and resistance; but I also don’t want to deny how difficult day to day life can be, and how it can be hard to see things other than as a long list of chores to be checked off. Artistic collaboration is our jumpcut to something else.” – Sheilah ReStack, Bomb Magazine
“To live a feral domestic life is an aspiration, a refusal to be domesticated by capitalism. It’s an idea of the home being a generative place rather than simply a place of respite. Let’s sing at the top of our lungs while doing dishes! Let’s chase each other and roar like lions in the dining room! Of course we have to make dentist appointments, get the car fixed, and pay taxes; but we are refusing to let capitalism infuse us with fear.” – Dani ReStack, Bomb Magazine
Dani and Sheilah ReStack live in Columbus, Ohio with their two daughters. They are committed to the domestic as a place of unruly possibility – a portal for emotional logic, fragmentation and new narratives that allows the quotidian to inform the imaginary.
