The Match That Started My Fire
This unconventional comedy explores women’s sexuality through candid stories of sexual discoveries, fantasies and pleasures. Visually stunning, yet unnerving, the film is a visual montage of found industrial films and original footage of swirling skirts, monumental machinery, ocean life, and befuddled reaction shots. The phone rings and the girl-talk begins: secrets emerge and confessions build as the audience is taken on an adventure of sensual humor.
SCREENINGS (selected)
2023 – Rhizome DC (Solo show), Washington, D.C.
2022 – Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
– Seattle Int’l Women’s Film Festival, Seattle, WA
1997 – IMPAKT, Film/Video Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1997 – MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, (14 city tour) NYC, NY
1994 – Harvard University, MA
1993 – National Film Board of Canada
– Pacific Film Archives of Berkeley, CA
1992 – Input ’92 PBS Screening Conference, Baltimore, MD
– Melbourne Int’l Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
– Sydney Film &; Video Festival, Sydney, Australia
– 13th Black Maria Film Festival &; Tour, Orange Co., NJ
1991 – PS. 122, “Marriage, Sex &; Patriarchy”, New York, NY
AWARDS
AWARDS
2021 – Preservation Grant from (NFPF)
– National Film Preservation Foundation
1992 – Best of Festival Award – 1992 Ann Arbor Film Festival
– 1st Place (Experimental) – Baltimore Intrn’l Film Festival
1991 – Juror’s Award – Black Maria Film/Video Festival & Tour
– Honorable Mention – 16th Atlanta Film & Video Fest., GA
1993 – 39th Annual Flaherty Film Conference, Wells College, NY
1989 – Film in the Cities Production Grant, St. Paul, MN
BROADCASTS
1992 – “Eat Carpet” – SBS Australia
1993 – WNET – PBS – New York, “Independent Focus”
1995 – Channel Four, London, “Red Light Zone”
Director, Editor & Cinematography: Cathy Cook
Music/Audio Collage: Paul Dickinson
Funding: Film in the Cities Production Grant, (Jerome Foundation)
DISTRIBUTION
Not in distribution