Today! (clockwipe trailer 18) super 8, 16mm & DV on DV, 2009
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The last film I saw had mandarin elegance and homespun fancy; a travelogue of clamdigging, Mayan seafarers hitching home on formica seahorses and making fun of effervescent containers and all matters postal. If this film pertains to you clap your hands and say yeah.
—Mark McElhatten, curator, NYC Jessie Stead's sublimely intermittent epic Today! plays as episodes in an open-ended and wide-eyed adventure series, accumulating meaning even as it becomes increasingly mysterious. —Steve Polta, San Francisco Cinematheque
Today! is the missing cinematic link between Maya Deren's 1944 film At Land and the curent worlds of virtual traversings offered by "Second Life".
—Anonymous, USA
Today! episode screening history
46th New York Film Festival
Anthology Film Archives / NYC
37th International Film Festival Rotterdam
Gallery Ske / Bangalore, India
51st London Film Festival
San Francisco Cinematheque
PDX Festival / Portland, Oregon
PLNYWN Brooklyn, NYC
Maria Pandora Gallery / Madrid, Spain