Seeking a Way to Touch Through Film in a Time of Isolation

Monday, March 9, was a week out from the fourth iteration of Light Field, our collectively organized, celluloid-only film festival. COVID-19 was a murmur. When asked if the festival would be canceled, I said there was no way.
Two days later, on March 11, we canceled. News about the pandemic and its dangers had come fast and it had come from everywhere, flipping shreds of our reality, strip by strip, into a whole different picture. Canceling was the only option, but it made no sense. Most of us c