Telenova - Bones (Official Video)
Directed by Jill Sachs and Angeline Armstrong
Costume Design by Rachel Kinnard
Virgin Soap
Photographs by Ilona Szwarc
Costume Design by Rachel Kinnard
“In this new body of work, the Polish American artist documents herself casting a model’s torso in silicone and plaster. The model lies prone on a table, her breasts exposed, classically posed against an electric blue backdrop. A perverse tutorial proceeds: Szwarc stands behind the model, a presence at once intimate and coercive. The artist binds her subject’s breasts with laces to measure them, then covers the model’s breasts, shoulders, and mouth in green silicone.
As a female artist with a focus on self-portraiture, Ilona Szwarc draws on her ongoing fascination with doppelgängers. She explores themes of identity, transformation, and the dopplegänger - an inquiry rooted in her immigrant experience. Szwarc’s work is concerned with rendering her experience visible in a way impossible in language. Here, the artist plays Pygmalion, unsure where the boundary lies between the real and the fake.” - Diane Rosenstein Gallery.
Unsex Me Here
Photographs by Ilona Szwarc
Costume Design by Rachel Kinnard
“Set in a dreamlike borderland somewhere between the glintz of Hollywood regency and the forests of European fairy tales, Unsex Me Here is an ambiguous parable about sex, nature, memory, and repressed wildness. The title of the exhibition is derived from Lady Macbeth’s plea to unclean spirits to transform her from a soft hearted woman into someone capable of unflinching acts of ‘direst cruelty.’ Szwarc finds her subject, like Lady Macbeth, in a moment of arrested psychological and bodily change, with all the nascent dangers those changes entail.” - Make Room, Los Angeles.
SANZARU
Written and Directed by Xia Magnus
Costume Design by Rachel Kinnard
“When a home health aid and her nephew move in to care for an elderly woman and her unstable son, two broken families find themselves dangerously isolated under one roof.” - Oneonetwosixfilms
The Mortician and the Murderer
Photographs by Ilona Szwarc
Costume Design by Rachel Kinnard
“The insane true story of the 1980s mortician who turned his family’s funeral home into a nightmare cremation factory—pulling gold teeth, harvesting organs, and threatening anyone who got in his way.” - Topic Magazine, Issue no. 21, Crime
Brandi Finds God
Written and Directed by Gonzalo Cordova
Costume Design by Rachel Kinnard
“Brandi, a free-spirited woman stumbling home on a Sunday morning, finds herself attending service at a Spanish-speaking Pentecostal church. She befriends, Catrina, a teenage girl going through a cultural crisis of faith. Brandi becomes the devil on her shoulder, persuading her to follow her rebellious impulses. Catrina is torn between her ties to her community and the desire to join the outside, secular, Americanized world.” – Gonzalo Cordova
The Call of Warr, Season 1
Written by Robby Rackleff
Costume Design by Rachel Kinnard
“A live, interactive soap opera from Wham City Comedy. Live streaming October 29th to November 2nd 2018 on AdultSwim.com. The soldiers of ‘M’ Company are lost and stranded in an abandoned town, which isn’t on any maps. They’re joined by a ragtag trio of civilians and a weird prisoner in a mask.” – Adult Swim
Survival Skills
Written and Directed by by Quinn Armstrong
Costume Design by Rachel Kinnard
“Survival Skills is a lost training video from the 1980s. In it, Jim, the perfect policeman, gets in over his head when he tries to resolve a domestic violence case outside the law.” – SurvivalSkillsMovie.com
