Join us for our very first major courtyard yard sale and help support the Philosophical Research Society's nonprofit cultural programming!
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Featuring a screening of the following films in the auditorium: AFTERMATH
All Alone Before Frozen Gods // E.T. Vazquez
VHS meditation on the deterioration of technologies created, abandoned and distorted by the hypergrowth of human civilization.
Sad Girl // Dolan Chorng
A babysitter traverses the suburbs at night in search of happiness.
Rapid Eye Mania: Vol. 1 // Eliana Mullins
What lurks beneath the surface of A Boy Full of Joy?
Station 5 // Nina Koyfman
Amidst the agricultural fields of California, the oil rigs bobbing ceaselessly become the companion for a probing marionette.
O Pequeno Chupa-Dedo / Little Suck-A-Thumb // Emanuel Lavor, Pedro Buson
During a night of incantations, haunted stories, and games, a child ignores his tired mother’s warning to not suck his thumb.
Everybody Goes to the Hospital // Tiffany Kimmel
A stop motion animated exploration of physical, psychological, and familial trauma, telling the tale of 4-year-old Little Mata as she's taken to the hospital in 1963 with appendicitis.
Luna // Prem (Premstar) Santana
The story of one woman's journey of self discovery.
Bite Mark Evidence // Daniel Watkins
A film about a highly controversial forensic technique that gained national prominence during Ted Bundy's trial for the murder of Lisa Levy.
Man in the Mirror // Alastor Arnold, Curtis Tamm
A collaboration between a veteran FotoKem colorist and an environmental sound-artist reclaiming the trash heap of our image culture as a place of exploration and innovation, utilizing unique visual algorithms and densely composed soundscapes.
Head of a Woman / Head of a Man // Michael Dorsey
What you are looking for is what is looking.
WELL BORN
Acedia I & II // Sterling Hedges
Acedia describes “a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world.” It can lead to a state of being unable to perform one's duties in life. Its spiritual overtones make it related to but arguably distinct from depression.
Vale e Harkut / The Bow Wake // Silvi Naçi
The Bow Wake is constructed as both a two-channel installation and as a feature length film to illustrate connections and tensions between two LGBTQIA+ communities in Albania: the Burrnesha and the Alliance Against Discrimination of LGBTQ., as well as a larger portrait of Albania and the cities and people Silvi Naçi worked with and visited.
Neuter Ality // Yunuen Rhi & E.T. Vazquez
A video meditation on the violence of imperialism and colonialism, and a documentation of artist Yunuen Rhi’s traveling transmutation of a historically cursed relic they inherited.
អារម្មណ៍ធ្ងន់ / Heavy Feelings // Vinhay Keo
The first part of an on-going video series that examines intersectional identities and inherited trauma through the artist’s personal connections.
Coyolxāuhqui/Cōātlīcue // Zen Cohen
From 2015-2019, Zen collaborated with performance artists who identify as gender-fluid, queer, two-spirit or as border crossers to create an eco-mythological, multi-channel video and sound installation. Each artist created visual performance personas based on the intersections of their own trans-cultural, political and spiritual identities.
Beauty Standards // Toni-Marie Gallardo, Rosalee Bernabe, Joi Purvy, Seo Yun Son
This high-camp horror anthology film explores the traumatic effects of eurocentric beauty standards on teenagers of color.
inside the spiral // Noah Gokul
Gokul connects their anxiety to spirals in nature, specifically the fern. While in Portland, NYC, and Berlin, they interacted with their environment by taking video and noticing anxiety showing up in each place, and used this footage to create this video piece.
meaning escapes us but the river wont (a chiasmus) // Star Feliz
2018, single channel video.
KauyumariTatewari // Edgar Fabián Frías
From Perpetual Flowering, Edgar Fabián Frías' first museum exhibition. A descendant of the Wixarika, Fabián Frías utilizes colors associated with the sacred directions and re-interprets ancient ceremonial songs into contemporary music videos.
FILM SPELLS
拜六下晡 Pài-La̍k Ē-Poo / Saturday Afternoon // Erica Sheu
A half-moon on the blue sky. A quiet offering connects the unreachable world with the physical earth. A Japanese childhood song comes in the wind.
In Full Bloom // Maegan Houang
The story of Cecile, an elder Vietnamese hoarder, whose life is upended when worms open a black hole in her house and threaten to take all her stuff.
Ocean Song // Phoenix Ocean, Phoebe Unter
Fueled by desire to glimpse ocean creatures, Phoenix and Phoebe narrate their ocean plunge with reflections on their relationship to the sea and what they can learn from marine relatives.
La Mirage // Arianne Ayu Alizio
The routine of a motel housekeeper quickly disintegrates upon losing her cleaning glove. Now trapped in a surreal purgatory, she sets out to vanquish the perilous forces that haunt each room.
Ave Nacional // Stephen Cervantes
The national bird of Panama goes missing from its cage. Two elderly Panamanians share stories from their childhood. A Grandson dreams.
Where I’m @ in Love // Amara Norman
Set against the backdrop of changing city scenery, this film explores hopeful romance and the transience of love.