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ECSTASIE
ECSTASY THRIVES BEYOND THE STATUS QUO IN ECSTASIE“Ecstasie is an inquisitive and aesthetically beautiful film that captures a queer body in ways we rarely see.” –SAM FEDER of Disclosure (2020) and Heightened Scrutiny (2025)
An intimate conversation between interdisciplinary artist Liz Rosenfeld and director Lily Baldwin, ECSTASIE explores the privilege and responsibility of physical presence, prompting viewers to reconsider the power dynamics inherent in our role as observers. This evocative hybrid film re-visions cinematic conventions through a fusion of experimental documentary storytelling with live performance. Produced by Margo Mars (Imogen, Êxtase) and executive produced by Sam Feder (Heightened Scrutiny, Disclosure), ECSTASIE is a transcendental filmic experience of personal freedom and rapture.
**UPCOMING SCREENING EVENT WITH MAVERICK PHILOSOPHER SIMON CRITCHLEY**
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FILMMAKER’S NOTE: How does ecstasy move? Can it be captured? What harm might a director cause by exploiting shared intimacy? What lives in the intersection between a true lived act, performance, and digitization? In the spirit of art as an always ongoing process, this experimental film embraces indeterminacy and documents these queries without hard knock conclusions.
ECSTASIE lives between ephemeral performance and filmic experiment, resisting voyeurism and acknowledging the camera's proclivity to exploit a subject.
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APRIL 19 SCREENING EVENT @ THE CENTER NYC
ECSTASIE / TRAVESTY SCREENING AND CONVERSATION
Conversation with Lily Baldwin, Liz Rosenfeld, Courtney Powell, and Katy Pyle (Ballez)
Moderated by Ansley Vandebrouke and Mara Mills
* see Artistic Tribe’s coverage of the event here *
Director LILY BALDWIN
Featuring LIZ ROSENFELD
Production Company LIEF
Producers MARGO MARS, LILY BALDWIN
Executive Producer SAM FEDER
Production Company (Berlin) KANU
Line Producer SIMON RUDOLPH
Executive Producer LUTZ MULLER
Director of Photography GRETA CONTE
Sound Design and Mix Q DEPARMENT
Colourist YOOMIN LEE
Editors MONICA DE ALWIS, MACKIE MALLISON, LILY BALDWIN