Currently:
feature film in-progress. Bryan Saner and Sarah Stambaugh, pictured.
Set in an unsung corner of middle-America, The Latest Sun is Sinking Fast chronicles an unlikely bond between a solitary woman and two reclusive ministers.
Intentionally accumulating material for over a decade, with actors aging in real time, this project interweaves fiction, real-life events of performers, and the filmmaker’s family history.
An expansive, multi-part film project designed to accumulate over time, encompassing site-specific installations, short films, and -currently in-progress – a new feature film.
Directed by Melika Bass. Featuring Sarah Stambaugh, Bryan Saner, Matthew Goulish, and Terri Kapsalis.
Super16mm to 2K, 2013-present
Excerpt from video installation:
The Latest Sun is Sinking Fast project films & installations:
feature film in-progress
short film 2017, S16mm to digital, 32 mins.
Devotional Animals, Gene Siskel Film Center
split screen film 2015, S16mm to digital, 15 mins.
Screening the Speculative, New Museum, New York
4-channel installation 2015, S16mm to digital, 13 mins. / 15 mins. / 9.5 mins. / 12 mins
Solo Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center
Best New Video Installation 2015 –Chicago Reader
“One of the most exciting film events happening in Chicago. . .Beautiful, yet vaguely terrifying.” -Time Out Chicago
“Bass spawns sensory pleasures which guide viewers around the mesmeric space.” -Gapers Block
Exhibition Essay by Karsten Lund, Associate Curator, Renaissance Society
Installation photos by Clare Britt
2 channel installation Phoebe and Nanty, 2013, S16mm to digital, 9 mins. / 7 mins.
Outside the Screen, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
single-channel installation Nanty, 2013, S16mm to digital, 13 mins.
Presence of Absence, Hairpin Arts Center
Curated by Dave and Debra Tolchinsky, sponsored by Contemporary Arts Council
“Bass’s short film [is] a fragmentary character study — intense, repetitive and unguarded.”-Chicago Tribune
“A wonderfully odd, powerful, thoughtful show.” –Huffington Post
“One of the best art gallery shows in Chicago right now.” –Chicago Magazine
Installation photo by Tom Van Eynde.
This project partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.