Colombian French artist and filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán has earned international acclaim for films as visually rich as they are thought-provoking, weaving together documentary, ethnography, and speculative fiction. Over the past decade, she has focused her practice on the coca plant, using it as a lens to reframe colonial legacies, Indigenous knowledge systems, and the […]
Join artists and game developers Jake Elliott, Tamas Kemenczy, and Ben Babbitt for an evening of live performance, unique playthroughs, and rare materials from Kentucky Route Zero. Widely regarded as one of the most important video games of the last decade, Jake Elliott, Tamas Kemenczy, and Ben Babbitt’s Kentucky Route Zero is a haunting odyssey of debt and […]
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Artist Sharon Hayes presents Ricerche: four, an expansive and deeply moving two-channel video composed from interviews with LGBTQ+ elders across the United States. The final installment in her decade-long series exploring sexuality and gender in the US, the work draws inspiration from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1963 film Comizi d’Amore (Love Meetings), in which the filmmaker interviewed Italians about […]
In Shared Resources, artist Jordan Lord offers a radical rethinking of documentary, debt, and the ties that bind. Shot over five years, the film follows Lord’s family through bankruptcy after their father Albert loses his job as a debt collector, the accumulation of loans to fund Jordan’s education, and Albert’s increasing disability from chemical exposure during his […]
Winner of the Contrechamp Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Seth and Peter Scriver’s freewheeling animated documentary follows Peter—an artist and storyteller from the Shamattawa First Nation—through a series of shaggy dog tales about growing up with his white half-brother Seth in 1980s Toronto, and later raising his own children in the […]
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Join artist and filmmaker Frédéric Moffet for a screening that pairs three of his recent films with works by kindred artists Jamie Ross, Zuqiang Peng, and Amina Ross. For over three decades, artist and filmmaker Frédéric Moffet has cultivated a practice rooted in queer relationality—drawing inspiration from early gay liberation and thinkers like Michel Foucault, […]
The work of Chicago-based artist and activist Mary Patten operates between the realms of poetry and politics, posing expansive questions drawn from a life deeply engaged with social and political movements. In a program wryly titled after a truncated quote by Che Guevara, she presents a selection of readings and videos spanning from the mid-1990s […]
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In 1973, Chicago artist and scientist Dan Sandin debuted the Sandin Image Processor, a groundbreaking analog computer that enabled users to create astonishing video effects in real time. By encouraging other artists to “copy-it-right,” he paved the way for the production of dozens of image processors across the United States, making the machine one of […]
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Winner, New Vision Award, CPH:DOX 2024 Part film essay, part sound experiment, Aura Satz’s electrifying Preemptive Listening is an urgent exploration of the social, political, and sonic dimensions of the siren. Tracing its evolution from shepherd’s bugle to World War II air raid alarm, Satz reflects on the siren’s omnipresence today—from warning systems for environmental and man-made […]
Winner, New:Vision Award, CPH:DOX 2022Winner, Prix Bartók, Jean Rouch International Film Festival 20222022 Whitney Biennial In the visually and sonically stunning What About China?, renowned artist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha revisits Hi8 video footage she shot in rural China in the 1990s to explore the country’s complex and evolving narratives about itself. She draws on […]