We hope you will join us tonight, October 13, 7pm at e-flux Screening Room for Altered States: Bruce Conner’s Border Crossings, a lecture by Johanna Gosse and a screening of Connor’s LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS.
Our October programs at e-flux Screening Room continue with let’s all be lichen: Slow Growth on October 18, presented by Flaherty NYC and programmed by asinnajaq with films by Sunna Nousuniemi and Nivi Pederson; Souvenirs of Frictions: Three films by Peng Zuqiang on October 20, including a post-screening conversation with Peng; Impending Catastrophe and Female Agency: A Screening of Peggy Ahwesh’s Work on October 25, including a post-screening conversation with Ahwesh; and A Reality Between Words and Images: Films by Lynne Sachs on October 27, including a post-screening conversation with Sachs and her collaborators Kristine Leschper and Kim Wilberforce.
On October 26, join us at Bar Laika for a screening of Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore.
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Thursday, October 13, 2022, 7pm
Altered States: Bruce Conner’s Border Crossings
A lecture by Johanna Gosse
e-flux Screening Room: 172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Join us at e-flux Screening Room for Altered States: Bruce Conner’s Border Crossings, a lecture by Johanna Gosse, with a screening of Conner’s LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS (1959–1967, 3 minutes). This talk focuses on Bruce Conner’s LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS, an exemplary instance of experimental film’s engagement with the psychedelic counterculture. Inspired by Conner’s experience living in Mexico City in the early 1960s and his avid experimentation with psychedelics, particularly hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms, the film features ethnographic views of rural village life, cameos from LSD guru Timothy Leary, and multiple allusions, literal and symbolic, to an atomic mushroom cloud, all set to a lively rock soundtrack by the Beatles. The talk will trace how the twin motifs of border crossing and atomic anxiety surface in LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS, and in turn, how Conner’s film illuminates the complex cultural politics of race and nation within the 1960s counterculture. The discussion will focus on how the film’s psychedelia is shaped by a colonialist logic of “expansion” and (self-) discovery, in which primitivist projections of Indigeneity play a constitutive role. Read more on the lecture here.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 7pm
let’s all be lichen: Slow Growth
e-flux Screening Room: 172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Join us at e-flux Screening Room for Slow Growth, the third program of the five-part series “let’s all be lichen” presented by Flaherty NYC and programmed by asinnajaq. Slow Growth will feature a pair of films highlighting going patiently through all the feelings while experiencing the lifelong journey of experiencing sexualized violence—dealing with court proceedings, and ways to move through the personal feelings. With Sunna Nousuniemi’s Boso Mu Ruovttoluotta (Breathe Me Back to Life, 2021, 24 minutes), and Nivi Pederson’s Pilluarneq Ersigiunnaarpara (Happiness Scares Me No More, 2020, 70 minutes). The screening will be followed by a cake and tea reception. Read more on the films and event here.
Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7pm
Souvenirs of Frictions: Three films by Peng Zuqiang
e-flux Screening Room: 172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Join us at e-flux Screening Room for Peng Zuqiang: Souvenirs of Frictions, featuring a screening of Peng’s keep in touch (2021, 14 minutes), Sight Leak (2022, 12 minutes), and The Cyan Garden (2022, 8 minutes) and followed by an in-person Q&A with the artist. Working with associations and coincidences, tracing steps of failed attempts, whether it’s a revolution or assassination, Peng Zuqiang is interested in figures in dislocated time and space, where a subject at times cannot take form. His works often start from memories, souvenirs of the past, which he fictionalizes in order to approach history from a different angle. Focusing on frictions between body and language, Peng’s works propose an alternative regime of visibility in which associative gestures, coincidences, and telling silences become the primary source of meaning. Read more on the films and event here.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 7pm
Impending Catastrophe and Female Agency: A Screening of Peggy Ahwesh’s Work
e-flux Screening Room: 172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Join us at e-flux Screening Room for Impending Catastrophe and Female Agency, a screening of films and videos by Peggy Ahwesh, followed by an in-person conversation with the filmmaker. Over the course of her career, Peggy Ahwesh has produced one of the most diverse bodies of work in the field of American experimental film and video. Often mixing narrative and documentary styles and repurposing the archival imagery, Ahwesh has expanded the project of the American avant-garde film, reinforcing it with an exploration of cultural identity and the role of the subject. The screening is organized as part of e-flux Screening Room’s series Revisiting Feminist Moving Image, and will feature Ahwesh’s The Color of Love (1994, 10 minutes), The Vision Machine (1997, 20 minutes), The Star Eaters (2003, 24 minutes), She Puppet (2001, 15 minutes), The Third Body (2007, 8 minutes), Warm Objects (2007, 6 minutes), Bethlehem (2009, 8 minutes), and The Falling Sky (2017, 9 minutes). Ahwesh’s works are resistant to cooptation by dominant media or advertising and produce alternative narratives of intersectional politics, feminism, and everyday life. Ahwesh’s works showcased in this program exenplify several techniques used by the artist from the early 1990s to the present, including found-footage appropriation, digital animation, and the usage of Pixelvision video. With these strategies, Ahwesh has developed a film practice that stresses on politically and socially relevant subject matter while being mindful of the pleasure of the audience. Her subtle and ironic dealing with charged subjects has made her work as highly entertaining as it is critical. Read more on the films and event here.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 9pm
A Screening of Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
Bar Laika by e-flux: 224 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Bar Laika is very pleased to announce a screening of Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999, 14 minutes), a short film about the UK’s clubbing scene. Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore was edited from found and original video footage of disco parties and raves across Britain spanning fashion and attitude trends from the 1970s to the 1990s. By merging amateur video footage from dance clubs with an amalgamation of sounds, Mark Leckey explores the cultural history of the UK’s nightlife revealing the poignant energy among, and socio-economic backgrounds of its participants. Via Leckey’s juxtapositions, fashion and material symbols appear as unmistakable constants in an otherwise ephemeral remix of three decades of the UK’s club dance scene. Despite the differences amongst the clubbers’ style and their music preferences, Leckey’s film connects disparate cultural eras in a whirlwind of ecstatic ritual. Read more on the event here.
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 7pm
A Reality Between Words and Images: Films by Lynne Sachs
e-flux Screening Room: 172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
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Join us at e-flux Screening Room for A Reality Between Words and Images, a program of selected films by Lynne Sachs, and a post-screening conversation with Sachs and her collaborators Kristine Leschper and Kim Wilberforce. In this screening we invite you to watch and discuss select works by Sachs that defy genre through the use of hybrid forms and cross-disciplinary collaboration, incorporating the essay film, collage, performance, documentary, and poetry. Sachs’ self-reflexive films explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. With each project, she investigates the implicit connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself searching for a reality between words and images. featuring Sachs’s The House of Science: A Museum of False Facts (1991, 30 minutes), Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam (1994, 33 minutes), Window Work (2000, 9 minutes), The Task of the Translator (2010, 10 minutes), Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor (2018, 8 minutes), and Figure and I (2021, 2 minutes). Read more on the films and event here.
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