Film & Video Programming
Employees Only Cineclub
Co-curator
Co-curator
SPECIES BEING, featuring experimental works by Mary Helena Clark + Mike Gibisser, Jesse Malmed + ONO, and Dana Dawud. The program focuses on the ways in which capitalism inscribes worlds and futures for living beings through codes, patents, myths, and other syntaxes. December 7 at 7pm, Sweet Void Cinema in Humboldt Park, followed by Q&A with Mike Gibisser and Jesse Malmed.
December 7, 2024 – 7pm
Sweet Void Cinema
Employees Only Cineclub Edition 5
Noah’s Ark – Dana Dawud (2024, 8 min)
WHIRRED, WHIRLED – Jesse Malmed + ONO (2015, 7 min)
A Common Sequence – Mary Helena Clark + Mike Gibisser (2023, 78 min)
TRT 93 min
December 7, 2024 – 7pm
Sweet Void Cinema
Employees Only Cineclub Edition 5
Noah’s Ark – Dana Dawud (2024, 8 min)
WHIRRED, WHIRLED – Jesse Malmed + ONO (2015, 7 min)
A Common Sequence – Mary Helena Clark + Mike Gibisser (2023, 78 min)
TRT 93 min
Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival 2024
Guest Programmer
Guest Programmer
Cloudwards: Waiting is a Dreaming ascends through various spaces of anticipation—pauses between strikes of lightning, a bus full of passengers nodding off, city alcoves in a downpour, reality TV elimination rounds, or the instructional stage of an indoor skydiving facility. Each work dreams in such spaces, steadfastly aspiring toward flight, progress, inflation, chance encounter, the taste of winning, dry ground, or a truer sleep. Documentarian sensibilities intermingle with found footage free-form experimentation and infrared interludes. By way of bats and pilots, rockets and space dogs, earthquakes and birds, the works of this program always tilt cloudwards. (1976-2024, 46 mins, Digital Projection.)
September 29, 2024 – 7pm
Sweet Void Cinema
Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival 2024
Laika – Deborah Stratman (2021, 4:33 min)
Helianthus Corner Blues – Jem Cohen (2013, 2:48 min)
Lightning – Paul & Marlene Kos (1976, 1:23 min)
ADARNA – Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan (2017, 1:00 min)
ROCKET – Katharina Bayer (2024, 5:00 min)
Somewhere only we know – Jesse McLean (2009, 5:15 min)
All Days Make Their End – Julian Flavin (2023, 13:30 min)
Life Without Dreams – Jessica Bardsley (2022, 13:30 min)
Memory Drum brings together memory, water, and family on 16mm film with a percussive throughline. The works of this program are elemental yet figurative, exploring kaleidoscopic relationships between parent and child, distortion and fidelity, rhythm and stillness. Leighton Pierce’s Glass (1998) initiates the program with an impressionistic tableau of children in the backyard through a glass menagerie of lens manipulation. Alee Peoples’ Hey Sweet Pea (2023) stages fanciful recitations that sweep us into a strange, hollowed-out nostalgia of sci-fi scripts and mama’s old voicemails in the LA suburbs. Carl Elsaesser’s How to Run a Trotline (2024) holds the drumline as the program’s luminous cornerstone, a spirited reflection on paternal tethers, both filmic and genealogical, that fishes for something alive and kicking in each of its brimming images. O Banho (The Bath) (2022) is Maria Inês Gonçalves’ turn to the phenomenology of water as filtered through childhood memories of bathing. As if beckoning us through amniotic fluid, toy boats and stuffed animals dunk and bob like repressed things, water goes where it shouldn’t go, and in the tumult we catch sight of Winnie the Pooh’s Heffalumps galloping through the ether, having long forgotten how they haunted us so. (1998-2024, 55 mins, 16mm Film and Digital Projection.)
September 29, 2024 – 5:30pm
Sweet Void Cinema, Projected by Ben Creech
Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival 2024
Glass – Leighton Pierce (1998, US, 16mm film, 7:00 min)
Hey Sweet Pea – Alee Peoples (2023, US, 16mm film, 11:11 min)
How to Run a Trotline – Carl Elsaesser (2024, US, 16mm film to digital, 18:10 min)
O Banho (The Bath) – Maria Inês Gonçalves (2022, Portugal/Spain, 16mm and 8mm to digital, 8:00 min)
Comfort Film
Guest Programmer
Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) at Comfort Station alongside shorts by video artist Shana Moulton. Log into new age everyday animism, good old human connection and/or lack thereof.
April 10, 2024 – 8pm
Comfort Station
Whispering Pines 5 – Shana Moulton (2005)
MindPlace ThoughtStream – Shana Moulton (2014)
Me and You and Everyone We Know – Miranda July (2005)
April 10, 2024 – 8pm
Comfort Station
Whispering Pines 5 – Shana Moulton (2005)
MindPlace ThoughtStream – Shana Moulton (2014)
Me and You and Everyone We Know – Miranda July (2005)