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ONLINE: Movie Night! ~ Experimental Shorts
August 28, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Our next installment of Movie Night! features a selection of experimental short videos that asks viewers to shift focus from the visual to song, recorded voices, and noise making.
In the video, “Espoketis Omes Kerreskos,” the artist Elisa Harkins sings the Muscogee (Creek) Hymn that was sung on the Trail of Tears. The song continues to be sung in Muscogee Creek churches today.
Adam Farcus’s “Protest Song” is an ongoing project where participants and collaborators are prompted to use text (an automatic writing translation of Donald Trump’s inauguration speech) to write and/or perform a protest song. The songs in this video come from the Protest Song project.
In “Calling,” Perez points his cell phone out a window to overlook rooftops, palm trees, and a blue sky. In the distance, the faint sounds of protests echo and meld with the din of the city.
Coral Shorts’s “Scream Choir” is comprised of a large group of people standing in the formation of a traditional choir. Instead of sung notes, they blast the public. The screamers pour out emotions of anger, pain and more, in tonal yells and primal screams. This cathartic work releases pent up rage against the frustrating capitalist patriarchal machine. This sound ritual aims to be a transformative experience for both performers and audience.
Aram Atamian’s “Badland,” filmed in South Dakota and at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Michigan, is a reflection on relational baggage, fossils, and letting go.
In Andrew Slater’s “Cassette Mythos Episode 4: Janette,” a human archivist takes orders from a mysterious AI. This film takes place in an unknown room with a cassette player and a light-up video phone.
Liz McCarthy makes clay whistles built for multiple people to play together. “Whistling In Place” was made in April of 2020 during the beginning of quarantine. In this piece she considers what it means to share space, share breath, share presence, and tools for mediating bodies in the face of global pandemic.
About the artists:
Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist and composer whose work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. She is a Tulsa Artist Fellow and an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) tribe.
Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist and composer whose work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. She is a Tulsa Artist Fellow and an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) tribe.
Aram Atamian is a US born diasporan Armenian artist and educator living and working in Chicago and Yerevan. He makes live performance, video, installation, and 3D rendering work that represents the ways that fantasy infiltrates experience of self, identity and geography.
Andrew Slater is a Chicago-based media artist creating work for a blind future. He is the founder of the Society Of Visually Impaired Sound Artists and is the director of the “Sound As Sight” field recording project.
Coral Short is a sound, video and performance artist and curator. Through their creative work, they harness the collective imagination of the communities they live in whether in intimate collaborations or large interactive performances. Coral’s practice casts magic spells on their audiences enabling them to understand that many fantastical realities can and do happen at any given moment.
Juan-Carlos Perez is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. Perez creates intense landscapes where visual and complex relationships revolve around the themes of politics, immigration, violence, racism, religion, and interwoven histories.
Adam Farcus is an activist, artist, curator, feminist, and teacher based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Their work is interdisciplinary and social, concept-based, and contends with the emotions that extend from climate change and social injustice.
Liz McCarthy is a Chicago based artist working through clay and performance to explore social and material performativity. She is also owner of GnarWare Workshop, a ceramics school based out of the Pilsen neighborhood.
Filmmakers will be present for a post-discussion!!!
Zoom link will be shared closer to the event.