NEW YORK PREMIERE
SYNOPSIS
APPLIANCE follows Sophie Weiss, whose house and its malfunctioning appliances become extensions of her biological self deconstruction. Just after a week of moving into her new home, Sophie's sense of reality takes on a distorted form as she begins to believe her house is living and breathing around her. Perhaps a result of her isolation? The side effect of a fertility treatment? Or even an outside antagonist? Appliance makes light of the disturbing history shaping the American delusion that homeownership is both an accessible tool for social mobility and a means by which one can value their self-worth.
STARRING: Callie Hernandez, Sasha Frolova, Rose Mallick, Jules Muir
RUNTIME: 17 minutes
DIRECTOR: Olivia Erlanger
SCREENPLAY: Olivia Erlanger
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Mia Cioffi Henry
EDITOR: Anthony Miralles
MUSIC: Alexis Georgopoulos
PRODUCERS: Jill Ferraro, Ani Schroeter, Paradise Productions
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jill Ferraro, Andrea Longacre-White, Seth Stolbun
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Olivia Erlanger (b. 1990, New York) works across sculpture, film, writing and performance to examine American dreams and delusions. Mining the myth of suburbia affords the artist a focus on the semiotics of the periphery, analyzing its architecture, infrastructures and ecosystems. Erlanger was awarded the 2024 International Sculpture Prize by Fondazione Henraux and the 2017 BMW Open Work Prize. Selected recent exhibitions include If Today Were Tomorrow at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas (2024, solo); Humour in the Water Coolant at ICA London, UK (2024, performance); Appliance at Kunstverien Gartenhaus, Vienna (2022, solo); Post Human at Jeffery Deitch, Los Angeles (2024); Nonmemory at Hauser Wirth, Los Angeles (2023), Dream Journal at Company Gallery, New York (2023); On Failure, at Soft Opening, London (2023) and Shell at Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles (2022). Erlanger is the author of Appliance (Wild Seeds, 2022) and the co-author of Garage (MIT Press, 2018) with architect Luis Ortega Govela. Her writing has appeared in publications including Tank Magazine, PIN UP, Flash Art, and Harvard Design Magazine. Her work is in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; KADIST, San Francisco and X Museum, Shanghai. Erlanger’s films have premiered and been screened internationally at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, NW Aalst, ICA London, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, CPH:DOX; and through DIS.art platform.