WRONG NUMBER: FILMS BY FRANK HEATH
PROGRAM 3

SUNDAY, MARCH 15 – 5PM + Q&A with Heath and composer Nate Wooley moderated by Isaac Hoff (THIS EVENT IS $10)
FRIDAY, MARCH 27 – 7:30PM

SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
Dir. Frank Heath, 2022
5min.

Despite an encroaching inferno, the party rages on in this video, compiled entirely from film and television programs that include the eponymous 1933 song by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. Music: ‘Combustion 2’ by Cory Smythe from the album Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (2022).

ASYMPTOMATIC CARRIER
Dir. Frank Heath, 2013
English, 14min

The lone resident of North Brother Island in the East River attempts to procure a new flag and finds out just how long he’s been away during his self-imposed isolation, which has surprising correspondence with the infamous quarantine of Mary Mallon (aka “Typhoid Mary”) on the same island nearly a century before.

CENTRALIA
Dir. Frank Heath, 2022
English, 57min

This portrait of Centralia, Pennsylvania—a near ghost town slowly consumed by what lies beneath—captures the blighted and largely depopulated landscape, widely known as the inspiration for the horror franchise Silent Hill, as well as the futile efforts of government agencies to contain the catastrophe and control the local population. Devoid of dialogue or diegetic sound, the film is set to the entirety of Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes, the LP by Columbia Icefield (Nate Wooley), excavating a sense of synchronicity between the unaltered soundtrack, particularly its use of field recordings, and the uncanny ruins of a once-thriving community of coal miners.