Screening Room
REALITY. . . WHAT A CONCEPT
A film program curated by Cuyler Ballenger, Maddie Butler, and Emily Greenberg
Wren Gardiner
Monologue 3 Performance Test
13:53 min.
An on camera performance test of Monologue 3. Part of a work in progress.
Maddie Butler
Mirrorball
8:35 min.
Mirrorball witnesses a mother and child morphing and multiplying through one another’s eyes. It collapses its two subjects’ perspectives – along with their memories and fantasies – into a single narrative stream, making visible the messy space between self and other.
Jack Coventry
Momentum
14:23 min.
Aural inkblot, a garbling, a barking dog and a creature feature, a bird call and the rumble and timbre of a Spanish guitar (holding), the shuffling of a deck of cards or typing really fast with hands like water, a mournful whistle.
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If you try to call for the steppe coyote, you waste your voice. You waste your soft, plaintive noise. He
has to drag you up a hill while you sleep, then gently extend to you a slobbery artefact. A gift from the
mouth of the coyote means that you’re in it for the long haul.
“A spiralling painting, a bronze sculpture, a marble fountain with a golden orb at its centre.” Before you start decorating your new home make sure you update your address with UPS. An oneiric viewfinder out of fever eats transistor TVs spews out creases in linen turns San Francisco into Foltýn’s Košice.
Can you still feel the hot animal breath massaging your face? I can.
Victorville Ashland Cary San Diego Eatonton Ashland
The orchestra sings for the porcelain puppet and a dusty lemon sits at the witness stand that soon turns into bedsheets and rope sausage. I am warm and troubled by a rash shaped like sheet music that covers my small back. In dizzy bliss we see mirrors in the stars so we look for ourselves in the scatter points the flocks the chatter the singsong. A contiguous hum. A banshee shrieks in feedback loop.
If you call this number you might swallow a magnet.
A coiled wafer (Corinthian) flogs an agitating mare and somewhere in the distance a church bell crackles and hisses.
Proliferation. The road dips ahead. Hit the booster coil before the flywheel loses all its impetus.
-- Ariane Jaccarini
Emily Greenberg
On Exactitude in Science
14:58 min. (removed by artist's request)
Filmed almost entirely in Google Earth, On Exactitude in Science is a three-part video work melding fact and fiction, archive and allegory into a speculative documentary about the rise of digital mapmaking among technology companies.
Hazel Katz
Sulka's Daughters
7:47 min. (removed by artist's request)
Sulka’s Daughters is a multichannel video eulogy to transfeminine ancestors who found moments of euphoric performativity in contexts of exploitation. The project consists of re-edited moving image loops from Dream Lovers [1980], one of the first transexual porn movies, and stars Sulka, the first transsexual porn star. This video is a one-channel excerpt from the installation, and features an interview with Sulka’s friend.
Cuyler Ballenger
Dumpster 4
7 min.
Companies that manage our waste, be it sewage or garbage, water or metal, conspicuously hide their work. This is not because they are evil or practicing without environmental regard. It’s more nefarious than that. It’s to hide our own filth, our own consumption, from us, the filthy consumers. In rarely confronting our waste we are not asked to change our ways, only to replace what is lost, and consume further.
