Bookmarks of Discomfort: A timely transdisciplinary collective program that is grounded in reality yet transcends to unify. In recent years discomfort, unfamiliarity, unprecedented events have become our new normal and changed, shook, transformed our lives as we never imagined was possible. The heart of this show is rooted within that deep sense of discomfort, the pleasure and pain to address issues, crises that challenge us, motivate us, move us to grow, understand, empathize, and ultimately heal and bring us together.
The first annual Wide Open Experimental Film Festival will be taking place at Rodeo Cinema on Film Row (701 W Sheridan Ave) in Oklahoma City, OK April 9 + 10.
Screening in person & online James Fotopoulos, Jim Fletcher, Christina Masciotti, Laurena Allan and Danusia Trevino in attendance
Microscope is very pleased to welcome back artist and filmmaker James Fotopoulos to the gallery for the premiere of his new video TIMON. The artist will be in attendance — along with actors Jim Fletcher, Christina Masciotti, Laurena Allan and Danusia Trevino — for this event taking place both in person and online. The work will be preceeded by a new short video by the artist titled “Faustus.“
Dates:
Monday, March 28, 2022 (All day) to Thursday, March 31, 2022 (All day)
The Kodama Film Festival was conceived as a means of emulating a sense of earthly reverberation, by finding creative voices that would meaningfully reflect the wonder of the natural world onto contemporary society.
The brief for submissions is as broad as nature is vast; to present short, feature films or photography that explore the physical and spiritual landscapes of the planet; to connect the rhymes and rhythms of the people with the land; and to generate a sense of communal reflection upon humanity’s often tumultuous relationship with its various habitats.
"By insisting on giving shape to the images, it would be necessary to start from the relationship between them and time. Without it there is no insistence possible. Repetition and search need time from which to expand.[...] then, the life of the images would not consist so much in simple immobility or in the successive recovery of movement, but rather in a pause charged with tensions between the two. "
Curated by Biviana Chauchi , Nicole Remy & Sofía Tudela.
Join us at 2pm BST on Saturday 2nd April for an online launch of MIA Journal Issue 4! For this event we will be joined by artists Loosii Ninjas, Edd Carr, Léna Lewis-King, Sapphire Goss and Lee Campbell who will present talks, films and performances.
