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11/11/2022

Films from our 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖/𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 screening The Land: Artists' Film & Video that Listens to the Earth are now online at https://antiaesthetic.com/time-space-The-Land-ONLINE

Films by Woodrow Hunt, Olivia Camfield, Melina Kiyomi Coumas, Julia Oldham, Jen Vaughn & Erin Mallea.

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Terra
Julia Oldham, 2020, 10 minutes & 23 seconds

Terra envisions a post-climate change, post-apocalyptic future. The video depicts earth as a deserted wasteland with a female artificial intelligence (AI) system named Terra, performed by the artist, who acts as both companion and guide to the remaining humans on Earth, teaching them how to navigate the harsh environment.

11/09/2022

Last chance to see Home Movies: Personal Narrative in Artists' Film & Video!

At https://antiaesthetic.com/time-space-Home-Movies-ONLINE until Nov 10

Pictured: Still from No More Dope Parties by Cambria Matlow.

10/24/2022

Eugene Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the next screening in our artist film and video screening series 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖/𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖, titled The Land: Artists’ Film & Video that Listens to the Earth. This is the fourth and final screening in the series curated by Portland-based filmmaker, videographer and documentarian Julie Perini.

The Land connects seven films, all focused in some way on planet Earth, concerned with the land and its relationship to people, history, language, belonging, and the future. These films take viewers on journeys through time and space, across landscapes, even across the galaxy. The intentional use of sound and image is important to all of the films, with considered voice-overs and soundscapes and layered, textured imagery. The films invite viewers to listen to all the stories the land can tell us, to think beyond what’s visible on the surface.

Films by Sky Hopinka, Caroline Monnet, Julia Oldham, Woodrow Hunt, Olivia Camfield, Melina Kiyomi Coumas, Jen Vaughn & Erin Mallea.

All films are by Pacific Northwest artists from ECA’s call-for-work except Mobilize by Caroline Monnet, an Algonquin French Canadian artist based in Montreal, Quebec and Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary by Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) who was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California; Portland, Oregon; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The Land: Artists’ Film & Video that Listens to the Earth will take place at 7pm on Thursday November 3, 2022, at Broadway Metro, 888 Willamette St, Eugene, OR.

Tickets for the screening are $10 general admission and are available online at https://broadwaymetro.com/films/PuCcwZxWtMFZORmL6ubv and at the door.

This program is supported by the Oregon Cultural Trust.

10/13/2022

The extraordinary program from our time/space screening Home Movies: Personal Narrative in Artists' Film and Video curated by Julie Perini is now online at antiaesthetic.com until November 10.

The films in Home Movies invite viewers into the private worlds of the artists: domestic spaces, homelands, families, and interior lives. These artists take control of their own representations, often rejecting limited mainstream portrayals of their identities in favor of crafting more nuanced and authentic portraits of who they are and how they experience the world. The full range of human emotion pulses through these films, each artist transforming individual experiences into sensitive works of art.

The online program includes works by seven Pacific Northwest artists: Peter Christenson, Jenn Sova, Ashley Campbell, Cambria Matlow, Jalen Thompson, Melina Kiyomi Coumas, and Kerr Cirilo.

10/06/2022

Don’t miss the screening tonight! 7pm at Broadway Metro.

Tickets $10 at broadwaymetro.com or at the door.

10/04/2022

Curator Julie Perini has selected Home Movies Gaza by
Basma Alsharif to be included in the upcoming 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖/𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 screening alongside films by 7 Pacific Northwest artists. We can't wait to watch the full program on Thursday!

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Home Movies Gaza
Basma Alsharif, 2013, 24 minutes & 10 seconds

Home Movies Gaza shares a view of everyday life in the occupied Gaza Strip. Daily life persists, but with constant disruptions and reminders of Israeli control, such as surveillance drones interfering with television broadcasts. Home Movies Gaza is an intimate portrait of a place and a people engaged in a constant struggle for basic human rights.

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Home Movies: Personal Narrative in Artists’ Film & Video⁠
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Thursday Oct 6 at 7pm | Runtime 84 mins + Q&A with artists⁠
Tickets $10 at https://broadwaymetro.com/films/I723RZBlkhaLYmBDX99c⁠

10/03/2022

Home Movies: Personal Narrative in Artists’ Film & Video⁠
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7 films by Pacific Northwest artists + Home Movies Gaza by Basma Alsharif⁠
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Thursday Oct 6 at 7pm | Runtime 84 mins + Q&A with artists⁠
Tickets $10 at https://broadwaymetro.com/films/I723RZBlkhaLYmBDX99c
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Almost Always
Kerr Cirilo, 2022, 4 minutes & 12 seconds

Almost Always is an artist monologue that tries to make sense of the self through personal, affective rules that dictate one’s own personal navigation of the world. In making the private public, I hope to explore the interiorities of everyday life. It is an homage to my mother, a quiet rebellion against her, and an exploration of what (and how this ‘what’) dictates “how one should be.”

10/02/2022

Home Movies: Personal Narrative in Artists’ Film & Video⁠
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7 films by Pacific Northwest artists + Home Movies Gaza by Basma Alsharif⁠
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Thursday Oct 6 at 7pm | Runtime 84 mins + Q&A with artists⁠
Tickets $10 at https://broadwaymetro.com/films/I723RZBlkhaLYmBDX99c
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Call Me Back
Melina Kiyomi Coumas, 2019, 2 minutes & 38 seconds

Originally made just for family, the filmmaker uses the last voicemail left on her phone by her Grandmother in this experimental short that becomes a meditation on loss and haunted spaces. Footage was shot on Super 8mm film one summer upon returning home to Hawaii, a few years after her Grandmother's passing.

10/01/2022

Lovely work by ECA artist .aono at the Eugene Airport.

10/01/2022

Home Movies: Personal Narrative in Artists’ Film & Video⁠
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Thursday Oct 6 at 7pm | Runtime 84 mins + Q&A with artists⁠
Tickets $10 at https://broadwaymetro.com/films/I723RZBlkhaLYmBDX99c
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Untitled (portraits)
Jalen Thompson, 2021, 7 minutes & 18 seconds

This work is a visual meditation on black q***r identity in Eugene during the COVID-19 pandemic. Communicated in a series of slow motion shots with references to black self-portraiture and black performance art, it asks the viewer to confront the reality of black q***r identity.

09/30/2022

Home Movies: Personal Narrative in Artists’ Film & Video⁠
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7 films by Pacific Northwest artists + Home Movies Gaza by Basma Alsharif⁠
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Thursday Oct 6 at 7pm | Runtime 84 mins + Q&A with artists⁠
Tickets $10 at https://broadwaymetro.com/films/I723RZBlkhaLYmBDX99c
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No More Dope Parties
Cambria Matlow, 2019, 29 minutes & 5 seconds

Through a hyper-local landscape essay focused on a pair of trees in Portland’s deep southeast Lents neighborhood, the filmmaker compares her experience as an artist-parent to that of folk singer Woody Guthrie, who once lived blocks away. Guthrie’s lyrics celebrating opportunity for the family man play out against historical and cyclical forces of pioneer land domination, rampant, divisive construction, and homeless and indigenous displacement. While life as a mother challenges the filmmaker’s identity as an artist, truths about Guthrie’s personal life emerge that reveal a more compromised vision of a Western paradise than his lyrics would suggest.

09/29/2022

Home Movies: Personal Narrative in Artists’ Film & Video⁠
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7 films by Pacific Northwest artists + Home Movies Gaza by Basma Alsharif⁠
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Thursday Oct 6 at 7pm | Runtime 84 mins + Q&A with artists⁠

Tickets $10 at https://broadwaymetro.com/films/I723RZBlkhaLYmBDX99c
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A Rug That Never Dries Out
Ashley Campbell, 2019, 5 minutes & 45 seconds

A Rug That Never Dries Out subverts narrative and character tropes by focusing on visual imagery of the mundane, the background information gives a subtle but deeper understanding of a main character. The occupier of these spaces' presence is hinted at through diegetic sound, decoration, and blurry flashes allowing for new relationships to form between sound and image.

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