FILM SCREENING: EMILY PEACOCK’S AUGUST

Join us for the world premiere screening of artist Emily Peacock’s first film, August (2016), on Thursday, July 14 at 7 pm in Matchbox 4 at the MATCH. There will be a q&a with Peacock immediately following the screening.

TICKETS: The film screening is free, but reservations are highly encouraged and may be made online here.

Carrying the weight of looming family tragedy and past heartbreaks, young artist August finds herself in limbo as she quietly goes through the motions at family gatherings, her job at a photo processing business, her own artist presentations, gallery openings, and awkward relationships. This personal, poetic film portrait conveys the mixed emotions of growing into independent adulthood, as well as celebrating photography and capturing slices of both rural and urban East Texas life. Inspired by director Emily Peacock’s personal experiences during her own mother’s illness and death in 2015, August is ultimately about the need to connect, grow, and find one’s own path.

August was written and directed by Peacock, produced by Peter Lucas, and stars Sophie Farzam.

Emily Peacock is an artist who lives and works in Houston, Texas. She received her M.F.A. at the University of Houston, with an emphasis in Photography and Digital Media. Peacock was a 2013-2014 Lawndale Artist Studio Program artist in residence and she recently received the Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant for 2016. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States, Vienna, Austria and the U.K. Peacock’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.