Wenhua Shi pursues a poetic approach to moving image making, and investigates conceptual depth in film, video, interactive installations and sound sculptures. His work has been presented at museums, galleries, and film festivals, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, European Media Art Festival, Athens Film and Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, West Bund 2013: a Biennale of Architecture and Contemporary art, Shanghai, Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism, and the Arsenale of Venice in Italy. He has received awards including the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Juror’s Awards from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. He is the founder and one of curators of RPM Fest.
Threshold to Threshold is pleased to welcome Boston-based, time poet, experimental filmmaker Wenhua Shi to present a solo screening of selected work from 2012 to 2023. There will be a post-screening Q&A with the filmmaker.
More info: https://www.automatala.org/films-by-wenhua-shi-let-the-light-in
Program:
- Die Nacht (2017- 2018, 4:00, Color, Sound, 16mm>Digital) (DEDICATED TO PHIL SOLOMON)
- Sense(s) of Time (2017- 2018, 5:00, Color, Sound, 16mm>Digital)
- Morgen (2018, 4:00, Color, Sound, 16mm>Digital)
- Because the Sky is Blue (2020, 4:00, Color, Sound, Cyanotype, 35mm>Digital)
- Walking Cycle (2016, 8:00, Color, Sound, SD>HD digital)
- Gutai (2019-20, 7:31, Color, Sound, 16mm>Digital)
- Mother (excerpt, 4:46, Color, Sound, 16mm>Digital)
- monosabishii (物寂) (2023, 4:00, Color, Sound, 16mm>Digital)
- Descending a Staircase x3 (2012, 10:00, Color, Sound/Silent, 35mm>Digital)
Tickets
$10 students, members, underemployed
$12 general admission