Interiors of the Liquid Gap is an experimental documentary that focuses on five Cuban exiles and the intimate sites of their lives before, during, and after crossing the liquid divide between Cuba and the United States.  The conceptual premise of this project is based on the notion that as all humans inhabit space, space simultaneously inhabits humans, and within this, the main question that is raised is how does the relationship between intimacy, trauma, and space function in the life of a displaced person? Joshua Weissbach received a Princess Grace Award for filmmaking in 2008. Join filmmaker Joshua Weissbach on October 6th for the film screening of Interiors of the Liquid Gap.

Joshua Weissbach currently inhabits a house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He started making movies with miniDV tapes when he was seventeen. He purchased a Bolex three years later. He has shown his 16mm films and digital videos in festivals on four continents. These festivals include $100 Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Berlin International Directors Lounge, Cannes Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, and The International Experimental Cinema Exposition.

Benjamin Balcom, raised outside of Chicago, received a BA from Hampshire College and is currently a candidate for an MFA at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.  He is co-curator of Microlights, a micro-cinema specializing in avant-garde film & video.  Working in both analog and digital mediums, Ben is curious about shifting notions of materiality.  His work occupies liminal states, attempting to illustrate various small functions in the machinery of the unconscious.