The Length of Day by Laura Conway

A collaged essay film that tells an emotional history of socialism in the United States. Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic seance using archival documents to communicate with her departed communist grandparents and ask them questions about the end of capitalism. An account of the dreams, struggles, and losses of revolutionaries in the United States. At its heart is the question - how can we imagine an alternative to capitalism?

Artist Bio

Laura Conway is a filmmaker, DJ, and curator based in Denver, Colorado. Laura’s filmmaking practice uses absurdity and surrealism to grapple with the complexities of life in late capitalism. As a DJ and musician, Laura’s films operate as visual remixes and often start with music as a centerpoint. Employing whimsy to confront power structures Laura’s films navigate a terrain between the grotesque and the sensual, the sonic and the visual, and the cliched and the still-possible. Laura believes that cultivating creative communities is as crucial as the creative act itself and aims to facilitate and create in equal measure. Laura, therefore, curates art events, hosts DIY music shows, and books alternative film events. Laura’s films have screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Artist Television Access, with Michelle Ellsworth’s Lamp Project, and at the Denver Art Museum. She is the recipient of the 2019 MFA Completion Fellowship, The Barry and Sue Baer graduate fellowship, and the Emma Strain Memorial Scholarship.