In the Waves: Films for Our Grief Screening Program + Q&A with Malo Sutra Fish AgX Film Collective, 144 Moody Street, Building 18, 2nd Floor, Waltham, MA 02453 February 17, 2024 | Doors open at 7pm, program starts at 7:30pm Event website: https://agxfilm.org/events/2024/2/17/in-the-waves
Filmmaking, like all art forms, has the ability to act as a powerful form of catharsis. Cinema also invites us as viewers to relate on an individual level to another person's complex expressions of grief – and sometimes to process our own grief through works that carry no direct connection to loss. In this lies the potential for a transcendent experience, both wholly singular yet universal. Even when we are faced with a relentless ocean of feelings and thoughts, cinema can buoy us as we drift in the waves.
This program, curated by L'Etna member Malo Sutra Fish in collaboration with AgX members Stefan Grabowski and Genevieve Carmel, includes a selection of six films relating to grief in various forms, made by experimental filmmakers from the French artist-run film labs L’Etna, L’Abominable, MTK, and Labo K. Co-presented by the AgX Film Collective and Balagan Films.
Malo Sutra Fish will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.
Free with a $5 - $20 suggested donation to support AgX and the visiting programmer.
Program: BLADE, 2004, Sébastien Cros & Fabrice Hérédia (L’Etna), 7 min, b&w, sound, 16mm. UNE SAISON SANS GUY, 2018, Noémy, Alida, Léo and Manuel Aubry (L’Abominable), 12 min, color, sound, digital. ARCHIVISTES, 2023, Maude Gallon (Labo K), 3’00, b&w, sound, 16mm. À L'HORIZON DES ÉVÉNEMENTS, 2023, Laëtitia Foligné (Labo K), 8 min, b&w, sound, Super 8 BORGO, 2019, Lucie Leszlez (L’Abominable & MTK), 4 min, b&w, silent, 35mm. AGUA DE VINAGRE, 2021-2022, Frédérique Menant (L’Abominable), 40 min, color, sound, digital.
approx runtime: 74 mins
Visiting programmer bio: Malo Sutra Fish (b. 1985) is a French artist currently based in Paris. She has lived and worked in NYC for more than 4 years, and 2 years in Portland, Oregon. Educated at the Lycée International de St-Germain-En-Laye, she also holds a bachelor’s degrees in both Art History & Art Distribution. She has worked in film distribution, film production, stage production, film and photography festivals, publishing, and translation.