An Evening of Feral Domesticity with the Restacks

Collaborators and partners Dani and Sheilah ReStack’s trilogy of films beginning with Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (2017) is a radical and intimate exploration of queer family and motherhood. The ReStacks have embarked on an artistic collaboration that is formally and emotionally intertwined with their domestic lives, which they share with their daughter Rose. Cinema Scope’s Michael Sicinski described SOTD as “A domestic mini-epic capacious enough to include witches in the heartland, the painterly use of blood or blood substitutes, Chantal Akerman and Prince, the oral application of smooth stones, gardens and mesas, the draining of a sebaceous cyst, and the enthusiastic eating of pussy. It is very possibly the film of the year.” Screening courtesy of Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This program was made possible through funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
About the Filmmakers

Dani and Sheilah ReStack’s films have screened at the Whitney Biennial (2017), the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Gene Siskel Film Center, MOMA PS1, Oberhausen, Cine Cycle, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Union Docs and VIEWS of the Avant Guard and Anthology Film Archives.

Sheilah received her BFA from NSCAD University, Halifax and MFA from Goldmiths College, London. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Studio Art at Denison University. Dani received her MFA in sculpture from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003 and an MFA in Film/Video from Bard College in 2009. She is Associate Professor of Drawing at Ohio State University.