A Woman Escapes + 3D Shorts by Blake Williams

Acropolis Cinema Presents: A Woman Escapes + 3D Short Films by Blake Williams

About the program:

A Woman Escapes (Dir. Blake Williams, Sofia Bohdanowicz, and Burak Çevik, 2022, 81 min)

Audrey lives alone in Paris after moving there to tend to the home of her recently deceased friend, Juliane. Moving through the days without motivation or a sense of purpose, she tries to re-establish her footing in the world by beginning video correspondences with two filmmakers—Burak, who lives in Istanbul, and Blake, who lives in Toronto. This exchange of words and footage initiates a healing process, but the nature of the interaction is not what it seems.

Preceded by:

No Signal ( Dir. Blake Williams 2009, 5 min)

A consumer-grade DLP projector is powered on without connection to an external source, thus prompting the device’s default ‘No signal’ message. The artist’s hand waves through the projected message, creating something out of nothing.

2008 (Dir. Blake Williams, 2019, 12 min)

Pictures of blooming cherry blossoms, radiant colour fields, and domestic miscellany are re-photographed off the screen of an obsolete televisual device. Images rise upward, the left greets the right, and a new season arrives, telling an impressionistic story of transition, unity, and companionship.

Laberint Sequences (Dir. Blake Williams, 2023, 20 min)

Shot in and around the Laberint d’Horta in Barcelona, the film charts several journeys into the garden in search of its centre, where a statue of Eros waits. As the film navigates the maze’s false pathways, its recursive structure begins to crack, and a mysterious underworld floods its gates.

FELT (Dir. Blake Williams, 2025, 15 min)

A man sees mountains and sets out to recreate them. During a traverse across the Western United States, we observe familiar sites in a new light, and the world gets lost in the fold.

TRT: 133 min + 15 min intermission

In person: Blake Williams

Presented in Onyx 3D.