When artist Erin Johnson and film editor Charlotte Prager moved into a seaside house in 2021, they knew only a handful of facts about the two women who designed and built it in 1971. The two women - art collector Mary-Leigh Smart and artist Beverly Hallam - were exacting about their specifications for the house, and they lived there together for over forty years. In "To be Sound is to be Solid," the filmmakers venture to decipher the house's opaque queer history by studying its complicated and circuitous floor plan. "To be Sound is to be Solid" is a film of layered intimacies and vicarious encounters. By investigating indefinability, erasure, and transparency in queer archives and scientific research, the film builds connections between lesbian, architectural, and environmental histories.
Release Date: February 27, 2023
December 15, 2023
November 24, 2021
September 19, 2023
December 04, 2023
May 20, 2022
February 16, 2023
January 25, 2023
December 14, 2018
December 06, 2023
November 11, 2023
June 24, 2021
November 14, 2022
September 09, 2020
September 14, 1980
September 16, 2019
January 01, 2001
April 22, 2023
February 06, 2023
October 22, 2020
January 23, 2025