Eddy Falconer, Artwork 1 from Return to Valhalla, 2024
[April 22, 2025, 6:00-7:15pm EST]
Through salvaged artworks, travel videos, and recuperative actions, Return to Valhalla is an essay film that traces the scale of the personal against that of the epic. It has a particular sense of lost time, and of blurred boundaries between realities lived, imagined, and hypothesized. An obsession is lived out in pursuit of the elements of a 30 year old trauma: can what seems fated be rewritten through some digging in history, or language, or location?
Eddy Falconer, Artwork 2 from Return to Valhalla, 2024
Valhalla, the home of the gods in Norse mythology, famously depicted in the operas of Richard Wagner as a place of final rest when the light dims on these waning superpowers….Here, a cinematic meditation on what the superpower of stitching tenses and moments and even new words together might really mean to the filmmaker.
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Still image of Ring Cycle flexidisc playing on turntable
Artist Bios
Patricia White is Centennial Professor of Film and Media Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies Coordinator and Aydelotte Foundation Director at Swarthmore College. Her books include Rebecca; Women’s Cinema/World Cinema, and Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability. She is on the boards of Camera Obscura and Women Make Movies.
Eddy Falconer, Franklin Furnace intern alum, is an 89er, someone who experienced the Wendezeit in Berlin and was formed by their battles for queer and non-German recognition there and then. In the early 90s, they created the performance character Eduardo Falcone, Super 8 films, installations, and paintings, and studied theater with Achim Freyer.. In the US, in 2000-01 Eddy helped stage the premiere of Solanas’ Up Your Ass with George Coates Performance Works. In 2003 Eddy co-founded The Icarus Project website, a peer support network. Since 2007 they have created experimental and animated festival videos.
