VAGUELY HUMAN
dir. Various, 2001-2021
USA/France, 70 min
In English
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 – 7:30 PM w/Q&A (This event is $10.)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21 – 10 PM
Vaguely Human is a video art program alongside LA Freewaves, a community based arts organization from Los Angeles who are dedicated to exhibiting culturally relevant independent new media. Our collaboration includes work by contemporary experimental filmmakers from Europe & US. Artists explore existential dilemmas in relation to the body, using conceptual erotic imagery, Fluxus techniques (i.e, chance, inderminancy, improvisation), and humor. We are pleased to present films by: TARWUK, Bradford Kessler, Miles Pflanz, Sophie Hoyle, Broderick Fox, and Calvin Phelps.
There will be a Q&A panel with the filmmakers in-attendance after the screening on Friday, 12/9, hosted by Sabrina Tamar.
Special thanks to Anne Bray from LA Freewaves, for more information visit: freewaves.org
Program selection includes the following works:
-1%
dir. Bradford Kessler, 2015
USA, 7 min
In English
A young Upper East Side Princess who hunts Liberal arts students around NYU for her sexual appetite.
3 SHORT FILMS: SAVAGE NECESSITIES / WAR CODA / NET OP LOSS
dir. Miles Pflanz, 2019
USA, 30 min
In English
SAVAGE NECESSITIES, features Kembra Pfahler along with group of NYC art students stuck in a room with an obscene amount of pennies that they choose not to spend.
WAR CODA, explores the inner world of couch potatoes who relish on bodega fries while musing on true crime; they want to solve a murder mystery but cannot proceed without the perfect victim.
NET OP LOSS, digital art and stream of consciousness merge in this dark comedy about an unknown narrator who feels estranged from their family, society, and especially, politics.
dir. TARWUK & Matthew Goedecke, 2020
USA, 15 mins
In Croatian w/ English subtitles
First time screening in NYC, Baka is a body horror short about a family while surrounded by one another at the dinner table.
HYPERACUSIS (PART 1)
dir. Sophie Hoyle, 2021
France, 8 min
In English
Set in a biohacking lab, Hoyle’s short explores transcultural psychiatry, and the intergenerational impact of racism and colonialism.
dir. Broderick Fox, 2001
USA, 10 min
In English
A short film that explores the intersection between anorexia, sexuality, and gender shot in the intimate confines of the home.
THE KISS
dir. Calvin Phelps, 2002
USA, 1 min
In English
This is a short film shot from across someone’s window; it’s mundane voyeurism but not quite what you think.