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Feral Domestic

Gathered together under the title Feral Domestic, these three videos – Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, Come Coyote and Future From Inside – are a marker of time, queer desire, family, place, relation and conflict. Using both documentary and fictional footage from their lives, the ReStack’s forge fragmented possibility inside a world that often feels broken.

The works are a continued collaborative attempt to find resolution through connection – using form, color, sound, children, and artmaking as narrative through lines that propose the domestic as a place of unexpected catalyst and re-invention. 

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# Title Artists Run Time Year Country
1 Strangely Ordinary This Devotion Dani Leventhal ReStack, Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack 00:26:23 2017 United States
2 Come Coyote Dani Leventhal ReStack, Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack 00:07:32 2019 United States
3 Future From Inside Dani Leventhal ReStack, Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack 00:18:51 2021 Canada, United States

Strangely Ordinary This Devotion

Dani Leventhal ReStack, Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
2017 | 00:26:23 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

DESCRIPTION

Strangely Ordinary This Devotion is a visceral exploration of feral domesticity, queer desire, and fantasy in a world under the threat of climate change. Utilizing and exploding archetypes, the film offers a radical approach to collaboration and the conception of family. Dani and Sheilah collect and arrange images and moments that are at once peculiar and banal, precious and disturbing, creating resonance and contrast through experimental modes of storytelling.

This title is also available as part of the trilogy Feral Domestic.

Come Coyote

Dani Leventhal ReStack, Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
2019 | 00:07:32 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

DESCRIPTION

“The second in a planned trilogy of films about desire and domesticity that began with Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (2017), Come Coyote examines issues around queer reproduction, intimacy, and motherhood. Collaborators and partners Dani and Sheilah ReStack capture in fleeting, diaristic images the tender and terrifying feelings they have around ushering new life into the world, conveyed with both humor and a powerful immediacy."

— Projections at NYFF, 2019 catalogue

"A quixotic intimate portrait, Come Coyote portrays the reproductive challenges of same-sex couples with sensual poetry and humor, plus a pinch of despair."

— Ela Bittencourt, Hyperallergic, October 2019

This title is also available as part of the trilogy Feral Domestic.

Future From Inside

Dani Leventhal ReStack, Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack
2021 | 00:18:51 | Canada, United States | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

DESCRIPTION

Future From Inside is the last in the trilogy begun in 2016, by Dani and Sheilah ReStack (also including Strangely Ordinary this Devotion and Come Coyote.) The work traces the ReStack collaboration, as it manifests in life and in work. The porous line between real and fantasy is further elaborated in this video -- FFI utilizes body doubles, a continuing journey for answers and oracles, animal synthesis, queer desire, children and radical community to weave a fragmented future. This final offering of the trilogy does not offer answers to the personal and societal conflict, but continues the possibility of the feral domestic as a way to inhabit the space of living to yield surprising results.

This title is also available as part of the trilogy Feral Domestic.