25 Films For 25 Years! EPFC’s Online Anniversary Celebration!

Film 22: You Are Not A Ghost (2016), selected by Jennifer Saparzadeh

“I'll never forget the first time I came to EPFC. My friend and I took the bus from Santa Monica which goes all the way down Sunset Blvd to Echo Park. It was the late afternoon and the sun was shining through their front windows in that dreamy way that when blended with memory feels like a dream. Lisa Marr was there and in her secure and confidently guiding way lead us through threading a super 8mm projector. We left and listened to Joanna Newsom on shared headphones (of course) on our bus ride home. It must have been 2006 or so.

I picked this film which was made years after my initial visit to EPFC when I was teaching an all-girls film class. This film has stayed with me since. The title alone, "You Are Not a Ghost" feels like a reminder I need to hear sometimes. Presence, absence, and the sensation of being in between are what I feel from this film.”