FALL 2021 MASSART CINÉ CULTURE SCREENINGS

AKOSUA ADOMA OWUSU 

Nov. 30 2021

Virtual Event

 AKOSUA ADOMA OWUSU is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Her films explore the colliding identities of black immigrants in America through multiple forms ranging from cinematic essays to experimental narratives to reconstructed Black popular media. Owusu aims to create a third cinematic space or consciousness. In her works, feminism, queerness, and African identities interact in African, white American, and black American cultural spaces.

 

Since 2005, Owusu’s films have screened internationally in festivals and museums. Named by IndieWire as one of six preeminent “avant-garde female filmmakers who redefined cinema,” she was a featured artist of the 56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has received numerous awards and grants including the Gardner Film Study Fellowship (2021), the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists (2020), the Camargo Foundation Fellowship (2016), the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2015), the Africa Movie Academy Award (2013), the MacDowell Colony fellowship (2013) and the Creative Capital fellowship (2012).

 

 

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Fall 2021 | Akosua Adoma Owusu

Akosua Adoma Owusu . Stills from Me Broni Ba , 2009, courtesy of the filmmaker.

STEVEN WARDELL 

Nov. 23 2021

Virtual Event

STEPHEN WARDELL  is a queer filmmaker from the Midwest. Their work ranges from experimental 16mm practices to documentary portraiture to fiction filmmaking. Recent screenings include: Visions du Réel, Switzerland; L’Alternativa Independent Film Fest, Barcelona; Fringe! Queer Film Fest, London; ULTRAcinema, Mexico; Ann Arbor Film Festival; and Chicago Underground Film Festival. In 2020 they were the winner of the Emerging Artist jury award at the Mimesis Documentary Festival.

 

 

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Fall 2021 | sTEVEN wARDELL

Stephen Wardell. Stills from Uriah Plays the Alien, 2018, courtesy of the filmmaker.

LAURA HUERTAS MILLAN 

Nov. 16 2021

Virtual Event

LAURA HUERTAS MILLÁN is a French-Colombian artist and filmmaker, whose work stands at the intersection of cinema, contemporary art and research. Entwining experimental ethnography, ecological and decolonial thinking, historical long-term enquiries, and fiction, her moving image work engages with strategies of resistance and survival. Sensuous and immersive, her films propose embodied, emotional and reflexive experiences, third spaces imagined as healing altered states.

Huertas Millán’s films have been screened in numerous cinema festivals, and various retrospectives of her work have been organised internationally. In the contemporary art field, her latest solo exhibitions were held at the MASP Sao Paulo, Maison des Arts de Malakoff and Medellin ́s Modern Art Museum. Her films have also been exhibited and screened in art institutions (including Centre Pompidou Paris, and Guggenheim Museum NY) and biennials, and are part of private and public collections internationally.

Huertas Millán holds a practise-based PhD on “Ethnographic Fictions” developed between PSL University (SACRe program) and the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard University). She works as an educator in academic and alternative spaces, and is part of a curatorial and research initiative with Rachael Rakes and Onyeka Igwe on alter and anti ethnographies.

 

 

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Fall 2021 | Laura Huertas Millan

Laura Huertas Millan. Stills from E Sol Negro (Black Sun) , 2016, courtesy of the filmmaker.

KATHRYN RAMEY 

Nov. 9 2021

Virtual Event

 KATHRYN RAMEY is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work operates at the intersection of experimental film and ethnographic research. Her award winning and strongly personal films are characterized by manipulation of the celluloid, including hand-processing, optical printing, and various direct animation techniques. Most recently, she has been focused on creating an anti-colonial film practice with collaborators in Puerto Rico and researching environmentally-friendly photochemical processes utilizing indigenous flora. She is deeply committed to sharing her knowledge of alternative analogue technologies through workshops and publications.  

Ramey’s scholarly interest is focused on the social history of the Avant-Garde film community, the anthropology of visual communication and the intersection between avant-garde and ethnographic film and art practices. Her articles have been widely published. 

Ramey has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, and has screened her films and installations at multiple film festivals and other venues including the Toronto Film Festival, the TriBeCa film festival, MadCat Women’s Film Festival, 25fps Experimental Film Festival, J’hlava, Antimatter, Ann Arbor, Alchemy and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC

 

 

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Fall 2021 | Katheryn Ramey

Kathryn Ramey. Stills from El Signo Vascio , 2022, courtesy of the filmmaker.

TEDDY WILLIAMS 

Nov. 2 2021

Virtual Event

 

Eduardo Williams (b. 1987) is a filmmaker from Buenos Aires and an alum of Universidad del Cine (University of Cinematography). In 2012 he joined Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (National Studio of Contemporary Art) in France.

 His short films Que je tombe tout le temps? (2013) and Pude ver un puma (2011) were shown at Cinéfondation and Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival. In 2014 he had his premiere of Tôi quên rồi! at FID Marseille. He won the Pardo d’oro for Best Film at filmmakers of the present at the 69th Locarno Film Festival with his first feature film called El auge del Humano in 2016. The film was latter shown in film festival programs including Wavelengths (Toronto International Film Festival), Projections (New York Film Festival), Tate Modern, and many more. In the same year he directed Allons-y! for the festival of moving images Hors Pistes at Pompidou Center, in Paris. In 2018, with the help of the Center of Contemporary Art Geneva, he was able to produce his last short film, Parsi, which was screened at Berlinale – Forum expanded, Tate Modern, Julia Stoscheck Collection, Lincoln Center and many other festivals and museums. 

In 2019, he received the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. The Film Study Center at Harvard University awarded him with a Robert E. Fulton III fellowship in non-fiction filmmaking for 2020-21.

 

 

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Fall 2021 | Teddy Williams

Teddy Williams. Stills from Pude Ver Un Puma , 2018, courtesy of the filmmaker.

JORDAN LORD 

Oct. 26 2021

Virtual Event

JORDAN LORD is a filmmaker, writer, and artist. Their work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts, framing and support, access and documentary. Their films have been shown at festivals and venues including MoMA Doc Fortnight, Dokufest Kosovo, BFMAF, CIFF, ARGOS, and Camden Arts Centre. They have presented solo exhibitions at Piper Keys and Artists Space, and their work has been featured in publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Filmmaker Magazine, and Hyperallergic.

Image description 1: A white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair covering one eye sits, looking down, wearing a polka-dotted raincoat. A hand-held mirror sets on a counter next to her, reflecting her hand and stacks of coins. A caption appears on top of her hands that reads “so I am counting coins and putting in envelopes.”

 

 

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Fall 2021 | Jordan Lord

Jordan Lord. Stills from Shared Resources ,2021, courtesy of the filmmaker.

SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ 

Oct. 19 2021

Virtual Event

SOFIA BOHDANOWICZ  is an award-winning filmmaker from Toronto, she is the founder of the production company MAISON DU BONHEUR. She has had retrospectives of her work screened at BAFICI, The Seattle Northwest Film Forum, Cinemateca de Bogotà, DocLisboa and Festival du nouveau cinéma. In 2017, the Toronto Film Critics Association awarded her the Jay Scott Prize and in 2018 she was nominated for the Rogers Prize for Best Canadian Film for her documentary Maison du bonheur. Her third feature film, MS Slavic 7, graced the cover of Cinema Scope (and the Argentinian newspaper Página/12), premiered at the Berlinale and was featured at the Harvard Film Archive. Bohdanowicz is an MFA graduate of York University’s Film Production program, an alumni of Berlinale Talents as well as the TIFF Talent Accelerator. She is in post-production on her fourth feature titled A Woman Escapes, a co-direction with filmmakers Burak Çevik and Blake Williams which won the Churubusco Prize at FICUNAM’s rough-cut workshop, CATAPULTA. She is currently in development on her fifth feature film titled A Portrait which won the Kodak and Silverway Award during FIDMarseille’s co-production lab.

 

MassArt Cine-Culture | Sofia Bohdanowicz

Sofia Bohdanowicz . Stills from Point and Line to Plane , 2020, courtesy of the filmmaker.

DOMINGA SOTOMAYOR

Oct. 12 2021

Virtual Event

DOMINGA SOTOMAYOR (*1985, Santiago de Chile) is a writer director, co-founder of the production company CINESTACIóN and CCC, Centro de Cine y Creación, a new arthouse cinema and center in Santiago. Her first feature film Thursday till Sunday was developed at the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence and won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2012. In 2013 she co-directed the short film The Island that also won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam. In 2015, she premiered Mar at the Berlinale Forum and co-directed the collective film Here in Lisbon in Portugal.

For her last film, Too Late To Die Young (2018),  Sotomayor became the first woman to receive the Leopard for Best Direction at Locarno Film Festival. She has made videos and photographs for exhibitions like Little Sun (Olafur Eliasson) at Tate Modern 2012. Recently she premiered the short film Correspondencia (2020) , co-directed with Carla Simón, and the collective feature film The year of the everlasting storm premiered in Cannes in 2021. Currently, she is a Visitor Professor in the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University.

 

MassArt Cine-Culture | Dominga Sotomayor

Dominga Sotomayor. Stills from Too late to die young , 2018, courtesy of the filmmaker.

ISIAH MEDINA

September 28, 2021

Virtual Event

ISIAH MEDINA (b.1991) is a filmmaker who lives in Toronto and makes films with his company Quantity Cinema. In 2016, Medina was nominated for Best Director of a Canadian Film by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards. His experimental feature film 88:88 (2015) has been screened at the New York Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and Locarno Film Festival. 88:88 was also selected as the sixth best undistributed film of 2015 in the 2015 IndieWire Critics Poll.

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Fall 2021 | ISIAH MEDINA

Isiah Medina. Stills from Inventing the Future, 2020, courtesy of the artist.

HELEN LEE

September 21, 2021

Virtual Event

HELEN LEE is a Seoul-born, Toronto-based writer/director working primarily in fiction, as well as experimental and essay films.

As an independent filmmaker, Helen has written and directed original dramatic films starring such Canadian talents as Sandra Oh, Adam Beach, Sook-Yin Lee, Alberta Watson and Don McKellar. Her work has screened widely at international festivals such as TIFF, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen and Busan International Film Festival.

Helen’s narrative and experimental films explore intersectionalities of place, identity and sexuality. They address diasporic gendered subjectivities in cinema, encompassing feminist and transnational perspectives. Films include: PARIS TO PYONGYANG (2021), INTO SUCH ASSEMBLY (2019), HERS AT LAST (2008), THE ART OF WOO (2001, feature film), SUBROSA (2000), PREY (1995), MY NIAGARA (1992), SALLY’S BEAUTY SPOT (1990). Her work is distributed by Women Make Movies (US), Arsenal (Germany), Indiestory (Korea), CFMDC and CFC Features (Canada).

Currently, Helen teaches at Queen’s University, Film & Media. She is a former Lecturer and Visiting Professor at Korea National University of Arts (KNUA), Yonsei University’s Underwood International College and Ontario College of Art (OCADU). She has published articles in film journals and magazines such as Cineaste, CineAction!, L’Avant-Scène Cinéma and Signs: Journal of Women, Culture and Society, and is co-editor of the monograph, Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung, with novelist Kerri Sakamoto

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Fall 2021 | Helen Lee

Helen Lee. Stills from Prey and Hers at Last, 2018, courtesy of the artist.

KAMAL ALJAFARI

September 14, 2021

Virtual Event

KAMAL ALJAFARI‘s work interweaves between fiction, non-fiction, and art.

His first film The Roof (2006), won best soundtrack at Fidmarseille, followed by Port of Memory (2009), which received the Prix Louis Marcorelles at Cinema du Reel Paris. In 2015 he made the film Recollection, in which he removed actors from the foreground of films shot in Jaffa, to narrate the fate of a vanished city and passersby caught in the backgrounds. The film was premiered at Locrano, and toured in many art venues and museums. This was followed by An Unusual Summer (2020), made with surveillance camera material filmed by his father, narrating poetry of daily life through one corner of the street in his native city. Premiered at Burning light, Visions du Reel, and hailed by many critics as one of the top films of 2020, the film played in many festivals, including Viennale, Rotterdam, and Seville, winning several awards. Currently he is editing A Fidai Film, a film about a crime committed against images.

He was a featured artist at the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in New York, and in 2009-2010 was the Benjamin White Whitney fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and Film Study Center. He taught at The New School in New York, and at the German Film And Television Academy, Berlin. Showcases of his work took place at Lussas Film Festival in France and at the Cinémathèque québécoise Montreal. In 2021 he was a member of the international jury at Visions du Réel film festival as well as the Locarno film Festival in Switzerland.

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Fall 2021 | Kamal Aljafari

Kamal Aljafari. Still from An Unusual Summer, 2020, courtesy of the artist.

SPRING 2021 MASSART CINÉ CULTURE SCREENINGS

IAN SCOTT CLEMENT

Apr. 20 2021

Virtual Event

Ian Scott Clement is a 31 year old writer/director/editor based in Kathmandu, who has been living and working in the city for over 8 years. Hailing from a small town in New Hampshire, Ian got his start making films as a teenager, getting together with friends on weekends to shoot short movies to compete in his high school’s annual film festival. In 2008 he traveled with his high school best friend Viraj Thapa to his hometown of Kathmandu. Here he spent three months traveling around Nepal, making friends with the locals and immersing himself in the vibrant contemporary culture of the city. In 2010 he returned to Nepal to begin shooting his thesis project at Massart ‘Mango Pickle‘, a gritty post war youth based narrative with the help of his close group of Nepali friends. After travelling back and forth to Nepal multiple times for re-shoots and dubbing, in 2014 he moved back to Kathmandu to finish the post production. In 2016 he teamed up with longtime friends and collaborators Suraj Mainali and Gourav Basnet to co-found Gaurishankar Entertainment, an independent film production house, and began writing their first feature film ‘Basenji‘. Wrapping their production in late 2020, ‘Basenji‘ has gone on to participate in a handful of festivals including Salerno and Black Hills, and is still currently in the midst of it’s festival run. Apart from directing films Ian is a fixture in Nepal’s flourishing hip hop community and has made a number of music videos for the top emcees in the country.

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Spring 2021 | Ian Scott Clement

Ian Scott Clement. Still from Basenji, 2020, courtesy of the artist.

ERICKA BECKMAN

Apr. 13 2021

Virtual Event

Born in Hempstead, NY in 1951, Ericka Beckman is an artist and filmmaker, living and working in New York and Boston.  Graduating from Cal Arts in 1976, she started to exhibit in the mid-1970s in such renowned independent spaces as The Kitchen, Artist’s Space and Franklin Furnace in New York.  Since then her work has shown in museums in the U.S. and abroad: the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The MET, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Broad Museum, Los Angeles; The List Gallery, MIT Boston;The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Tate Modern, London, UK; Secession, Vienna, Austria; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Le Centre de Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; The Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK; Le Magasin, Grenoble, France;  Raven Row, London and Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland.  In addition, she has been included in four Biennials at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Her current solo exhibition ‘Fair Game is at M’ Leuven Museum in Belgium and will travel to Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, Germany in September 2021. She is currently working on Stalk a video/performance for Perform 2021 in NYC. She will be screening You The Better and Reach Capacity at ‘Modern Mondays’ on May 10th 2021 at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC (online). Her work is also currently on display in the group exhibition ‘Inventaire’ at MAMCO, Geneva Switzerland until June 2021.

Her work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, The Broad Museum, The High Museum, The Zabludowicz Collection, Le Centre de Georges Pompidou, The British Film Institute, MAMCO, Geneva Switzerland, Saastamoinen Foundation, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland; The Collection of Peter and Jill Kraus, and the Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern and Anthology Film Archives.

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Spring 2021 | Ericka Beckman

Ericka Beckman. Still from Reach Capacity, 2020, courtesy of the artist.

ADAM KHALIL

Mar. 30 2021

Virtual Event

ADAM KHALIL, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor, relation, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of COUSINS Collective. Khalil’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Arts Center, Lincoln Center, Tate Modern, HKW, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Toronto Biennial 2019 and Whitney Biennial 2019, among other institutions. Upcoming exhibitions will be held at Gasworks in London, Spike Island in Bristol, and Artists Space in NYC. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants, including but not limited to Sundance Art of Nonfiction, Jerome Artist Fellowship, Cinereach and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Spring 2021 | Adam Khalil

Adam Khalil. Still from Empty Metal, 2018, courtesy of the artist.

THEO ANTHONY

Mar. 23 2021

Virtual Event

THEO ANTHONY is a filmmaker and photographer based in Baltimore and Upstate New York. His first feature documentary, RAT FILM, premiered to critical acclaim, with a successful festival and theatrical run followed by a broadcast premiere on PBS Independent Lens in early 2018. Theo is the recipient of the 2018 Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship and the 2019 Sundance and Simons Foundation Science Sandbox Fellowship. In 2015, he was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. His new feature, All Light, Everywhere won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Nonfiction Experimentation at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. 

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Spring 2021 | Theo Anthony

Theo Anthony. Still from Subject to Review, 2019, courtesy of the artist.

ARISLEYDA DILONE

Mar. 16 2021

Virtual Event

ARISLEYDA DILONE (b. 1982, Santiago De los Caballeros, Dominican Republic) is a filmmaker, actor and performance artist. She is currently working on This Body, Too/Y Este Cuerpo Tambien a feature length biographical documentary digging into femininity and womanhood in her Dominican American family through her gaze as an intersex woman. Her work is a testament that the state of witnessing is full of power, there is nothing passive about it.

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Spring 2021 | Arisleyda Dilone

Arisleyda Dilone. Still from This Body Too / Y Este Cuerpo También, 2022, courtesy of the artist.

EPHRAIM ASILI

Mar. 9 2021

Virtual Event

EPHRAIM ASILI is a filmmaker, artist, educator and DJ whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. His award-winning films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world, including the New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Milano Film Festival, Italy; International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands; MoMA PS1, LAMOCA, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Whitney Museum, NY, and The Barbican Center in London. Asili’s 2020 feature debut premiered at the 2020 Toronto International film festival and was recently picked up for distribution by Grasshopper Films As a DJ, Asili has been a regular program host on WGXC, and done guest sets for NTS Radio, Afropop Worldwide, and WFMU. He also hosts a monthly dance party Botanica. Asili currently resides in Hudson, NY, and is a Professor in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College.

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Spring 2021 | Ephraim Asili

Ephraim Asili. Still from The Inheritance, 2020, courtesy of the artist.

DANI RESTACK

Mar. 2 2021

Virtual Event

DANI RESTACK is an associate professor of art at Ohio State University. In 2009 she received an MFA in film/video from Bard College, and in 2003, an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has screened her single-channel videos at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, PS1, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Lincoln Center, and Anthology Film Archives, among others. Her work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. ReStack is a recipient of the UnionDocs UNDO fellowship, Kazuko Trust Award, a Wexner Center Film/Video Residency, the Milton Avery Fine Arts Award, and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Visual Arts Grant. Residencies include MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, The Headlands, Cove Park Scotland, Kunst Eckenforde and The Women’s Studio Workshop. Her experimental videos have been purchased by Vassar College, Mills College of Art, Light Works, The University of Buffalo, and NYU. Her drawings are included in the permanent collection of MoMA.

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Spring 2021 | Dani Restack

Dani Restack. Still from Draft 9, 2003, courtesy of the artist.

JANIE GEISER

Feb. 23 2021

Virtual Event

JANIE GEISER is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes performance, film, installation, and visual art. Geiser’s work is known for its recontextualization of abandoned images and objects, its embrace of artifice, and its sense of suspended time. Geiser is the recipient of a 2016 Doris Duke Award.

Geiser’s films have been screened at the National Gallery of Art, Microscope Gallery, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, MOMA, Pacific Film Archives, the Centre Pompidou, the Salzburg Museum, San Francisco MOMA, LACMA, the Sharjah Biennial, and NY Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, and Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Geiser’s films are in the collections of MOMA, The NY Public Library’s Donnell Media Center, CalArts, and others. Her film The Red Book is part of the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The Academy of Motion Pictures Archive has selected her work for preservation, and The Fourth Watch (2000) was selected by Film Comment as one of the top ten experimental films of the past decade.

Geiser lives in Los Angeles, and teaches at CalArts School of Theater. She is a founding Co-Director of Automata, an artist-run performance gallery.

MassArt Ciné Culture | Spring 2021 | Janie Geiser

Janie Geiser. Still from the series Double Vision, courtesy of the artist.

PALOMA MARTINEZ

Feb. 16 2021

Virtual Event

PALOMA MARTINEZ is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and educator from Houston. She first picked up a camera as a labor organizer in Texas. Her short documentaries, Enforcement Hours, Crisanto Street and The Shift, have been distributed in The New York Times Op-Docs, The Guardian and The Atlantic, respectively. Crisanto Street was also broadcast nationally on POV Shorts on PBS. Paloma holds an MFA in Documentary Film from Stanford University and a BA in Economics from Boston University. She is currently a Documentary Film Fellow at The University of Utah Department of Film and Media Arts.

MassArt Ciné Culture | Spring 2021 | Paloma Martinez

Paloma Martinez. Still from Crisanto Street, 2018, courtesy of the artist.

WENHUA SHI

Feb. 09 2021

Virtual Event

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.

MassArt Ciné Culture | Spring 2021 | Wenhua Shi

Wenhua Shi. Still from Because the Sky is Blue, 2020, courtesy of the artist.

MARTÍN REJTMAN

Silvia Prieto and Shakti

Feb. 02 2021

Virtual Event

MARTÍN REJTMAN studied filmmaking at New York University. Before his debut feature, Rapado (1992), he wrote and directed two medium-length films: Doli vuelve a casa (1984-2004) and Sitting on a Suitcase (1986). Later he made Silvia Prieto (1999); Los guantes mágicos (2003); the documentary Copacabana (2006); Entrenamiento Elemental para Actores, co-directed with Federico León (2008); Dos disparos (2014) and Shakti, his latest film, a short from 2019.

In recent years, several retrospectives have been mounted of Rejtman’s work at venues including BAFICI; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California; Festival de Valdivia; Harvard Film Archive; Jeonju International Film Festival, Corea del Sur; Lincoln Center, New York; Tabakalera, San Sebastián; Cinemateca Portuguesa, and the online platform MUBI, among others.

In addition to his filmic work, Martín Rejtman is also a writer. He published Rapado (Planeta, Buenos Aires, 1992), Treinta y cuatro historiasVelcro y yo (Planeta, Buenos Aires, 1996), Literatura y otros cuentos (Interzona 2005/ Random House Mondadori 2018), and Tres Cuentos (Mondadori, 2012), among other books. In 2018 he was awarded with the Premio Nacional de Cultura for the script of the film Dos disparos. He’s currently shooting a documentary, Riders, and preparing a new feature film, The Practice.

MassArt Ciné Culture | Spring 2021 | Martín Rejtman

Martín Rejtman. Still from Silvia Prieto, 1999, courtesy of the artist.