Take What You Can Carry
Currently shown at Grandfilm VoDA character study as well as a meditation on communication, creativity, and physical space, Take What You Can Carry is a picture of a young woman seen through the interiors she occupies and the company she keeps. A North American living abroad, Lilly aspires to shape an intimate and private place of her own while connecting to the world around her. When she receives a letter from home, it provides the conduit she needs to fuse her transient self with the person she’s always known herself to be.
Credits
Director and Writer
- Matt Porterfield
Editor
- Amanda Larson
DoP
- Jenny Lou Ziegel
Sound Design
- Gene Park and
- Danny Meltzer
Producers
- Zsuzsanna Kiràly and
- Matt Porterfield
Technical information
USA, Germany 2015DCP · 1 : 1.85 · 5.1 Mix ·
With
- Hannah Gross ,
- Jean-Christophe Folly ,
- Angela Schanelec , and
- Gob Squad – Sebastian Bark, Mat Hand, Tina Pfurr, Sharon Smith, Laura Tonke, Bastian Trost, Simon Will
Festivals
- Berlinale – Shorts Competition ,
- Art of the Real at Lincoln Center ,
- IndieLisboa ,
- Maryland International Film Festival ,
- Melbourne International Film Festival ,
- Berlinale Shorts Go Abroad – Asia and India Tour ,
- La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival ,
- 2MORROW Zavtra International Film Festival ,
- AFI Fest ,
- Kurzfilmfestival Köln ,
- Diálogo de Cinema International Film Festival , and
- Berlin Art Film Festival
Distributors
- Arsenal, Institut für Film und Videokunst ,
- Stadtkino Verleih , and
- Grasshopper Film
Bio/Filmo
Matt Porterfield is a writer, director, and creative producer. He has written and directed four feature films — Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011), I Used to Be Darker (2013) and Sollers Point (2018) — all set in his native city of Baltimore. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Harvard Film Archive and has screened at the Whitney Biennial, the Walker Arts Center, Centre Pompidou, Cinematheque Française, and film festivals such as Sundance, the Berlinale, San Sebastien, Rotterdam, BAFICI and SXSW. Matt is a Creative Capital grantee, the recipient of a Wexner Center Artists Residency, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Currently, he is based in Mexico City.