January 13, 2017
Echo Park Film Center
New Works Salon XLII

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Ariel Teal
Untitled 1 (2018)
8 minutes, video

Embodying a body after trauma. Blowjobs, self-objectification and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are interwoven in an attempt to process and find bodily autonomy. 

Karissa Hahn
open window (2016)
2 minutes, digital 8, color, sound.

Karissa Hahn
Please step out of the frame (2018)
5 minutes, digital, b&w, sound

Alee Peoples
Decoy (2017)
10.5 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound

Decoy sees bridges and walls as binary opposites and relates them to imposters in this world. Humans strive for accuracy. You don’t always get what you wish for.

Jonathan Almaraz
Black Tezcatlipoca (2017)
5 minutes, Super 8, b/w, sound.

Black Tezcatlipoca, whose name means “Smoking Mirror” in ancient Mexico, exhibits an array of conflicting opposites to bring life or death and was often associated with space travel, discord, rulership, strife or darkness. Black Tezcatlipoca is often depicted with a smoking mirror, such as obsidian, to peer into other realms.

Francesco Gagliardi
Some Cities (2017)
2 minutes, 16mm, color silent

…when skies at night when wind and buses and streetlights when window when glass when houseplant and mountain when stars and cars and traffic lights when flickering sign when windswept skies when chair and curtain when wall and pillow when wet reflection wash when silver light when void when fall when open night…

Minjung Kim
(100ft) (2017)
3 minutes, 16mm, color, silent.

We have different sizes of feet. You are 1ft. I am 0.75ft.