Is it a documentary about making a horror film? Or a horror film about making a documentary? Artist & Filmmaker Winnie Cheung crafts a haunting metafictional tale about women artists pushed beyond their limits.
Celebrating the spirit of DIY punk filmmaking while wielding the chaos manfinested through situationist exploration, RESIDENCY has traveled to art spaces, film festivals, educational workshops and cultural insitutions in THE NETHERLANDS, RUSSIA, CANADA, PORTUGAL, ITALY, AUSTRALIA and beyond. In fact, we’ll come to your living room if the wind blows hard enough.
This site documents RESIDENCY as an ongoing transient experience where practice and exhibition are in constant flux.
Celebrating the spirit of DIY punk filmmaking while wielding the chaos manfinested through situationist exploration, RESIDENCY has traveled to art spaces, film festivals, educational workshops and cultural insitutions in THE NETHERLANDS, RUSSIA, CANADA, PORTUGAL, ITALY, AUSTRALIA and beyond. In fact, we’ll come to your living room if the wind blows hard enough.
This site documents RESIDENCY as an ongoing transient experience where practice and exhibition are in constant flux.
RESIDENCY is produced by
The Locker Room NYC.
The Locker Room NYC.
- Variety
"resurrects the collective spirit that once defined New York City’s artistic ecosystem, yet the zombified venture spirals into derangement as the film shifts into the mode of funhouse horror"
- Artforum
"a concise and concentrated evil diamond of a feature debut"
- Rebecca Falvey
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
2024 OCTOBER - SPECTACLE THEATER
27 October 2024
Brooklyn, New York
Opening film
“Body is a Car” by Lucy LG Grehring
Q&A following
27 October 2024
Brooklyn, New York
Opening film
“Body is a Car” by Lucy LG Grehring
Q&A following
PREVIOUS SCREENINGS
WORLD PREMIERE International Film Festival Rotteram - Rotterdam, NL
2024 DCTV Firehouse Cinema
2023 SPACE 538 Art Center
2023 Scope Art Show - Miami, USA
2023 SXSW - Sydney Australia
2023 Motel X - Lisbon Int’l Horror Film Festival - Lisbon, Portugal
2023 Halifax Independent Filmmakers Film Festival - Halifax, Canada
2023 Monsters Horror Festival - Torino, Italy
2023 Amfest - Moscow, Russia
2022 Untitled Art Fair - Miami , USA
BEHIND THE SCENES, A LOOK BACK
WITH PHOTOS BY MARA CATALÁN
RESIDENCY was conceptualized and produced during filmmaker Winnie Cheung’s month long artist residency at The Locker Room NYC in 2022 where she invited fellow cohorts to perform fictionalized versions of themselves.
Filmmaker Winnie Cheung with artists Kalina Winters and Brendan Elefante
Kalina Winters performs her final scene
Manuela Viera Gallo gets ready for her mango
15 FEB 2023
Five Things We Learned About
Festival Strategy and Film Distribution at IFFR
For FILMMAKKER MAGAZINE
We did the impossible. We made a feature film. When our docu-horror Residency was accepted into the International Film Festival Rotterdam, we learned that we needed yet another miracle—we needed a sales rep to get our film in front of the right audiences. It used to be that getting selected by a festival like IFFR meant automatically getting acquired by a sales rep, but those days are long gone.
On a predictably gray day during the festival, Residency director Winnie Cheung sat on a panel to speak about this very issue: the drastically changing landscape of indie distribution. Moderating the panel was Marika Kozlovska (sales consultant at Komarika). Other speakers included were Wouter Jansen (sales and & acquisitions at Square Eyes Film), Lidia Damatto (managing partner at film agency More Than Film), Kathleen McInnis (Producer/PR Strategist with See Through Films) and María Vera (festival distributor and sales agent at Kino Rebelde). READ MORE HERE.
Samara Bliss, Winnie Cheung and Dan Rosato at the Residency World Premiere at IFFR (photo credit: Vera Cornel).
23 NOVEMBER 2022
RESIDENCY MULTICHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION
AT UNTITLED ART FAIR, ART BASEL MIAMI
Exploring a transdisciplinary model of distribution, RESIDENCY travels the world as a both a feature length experimental film as well as a multichannel installation.
“Residency” multi-channel installation and paintings at
Untitled Art Fair, Miami FL Nov 2022
Right: Special screening during Art Basel Miami 2022
08 MARCH 2022
RISING FILMMAKER WINNIE CHEUNG UNLEASHES RESIDENCY
A DOCU-HORROR VIDEO INSTALLATION AT THE LOCKER ROOM’S
“NEW YORK WOMEN” EXHIBITION
The Mother of Exiles Statue (Winnie Cheung & Innua Robinson) on display in front of RESIDENCY multichannel video installation at New York Women Exhibition in Little Italy New York.
Fresh off the laurels of voted "Best Gallery in New York City", Brooklyn based underground art gallery The Locker Room launched into their second annual residency program capped by a month-long pop up show in Little Italy. This year, they celebrate "New York Women", featuring 10 artists across different mediums.
Amongst the paintings, sound installation, light sculptures and photography is filmmaker Winnie Cheung's docu-horror video installation projected across six television sets and a projector screen. Each channel displays sexy and bloody images of women painting, sculpting, feeding each other, taking naked selfies and mutilating themselves. READ MORE HERE