Film Programs
Geologic Listening
Author Sukhdev Sandhu and filmmaker Deborah Stratman will probe critical debates around the
Anthropocene, monumentality, and the politics of audibility through an inquiry that looks to geology as
an experimental pedagogy, an archive from which to ponder the ways in which our society dwells
between past and future catastrophes. Drawing on speculative fiction as well as forensic non-fiction,
their research will extend Stratman's longstanding engagement with the politics of landscape.
Fundamentally, they ask: how can we begin to formulate a progressive politics – or even a vision of the
future – that does not pedestalize the human species?
Deborah Stratman Film Program
Saturday 24 OCT - 11AM-1PM
Second Sighted, 2014, 5m
The Illinois Parables, 2016, 60m
Hacked Circuit, 2014, 15m
Optimism, 2018, 15m
Vever, 2019, 12m
Two Spirit Life Cycles
Writer and critic Jas Morgan and filmmaker / artist Thirza Cuthand propose to advance Two-Spirit
Indigiqueer life cycles through forms of mutual recognition, contemporary kinship, and world-building.
Reflecting on the ways Indigenous queer, trans, Two-Spirit, and gender non-conforming peoples have
lost knowledge about their social and cultural roles, and of homophobic shame imposed on Indigenous
Peoples through punishment and policing of non-normative sexualities, they will expand on the impact
of feminist material aesthetics, private documentary style filmmaking, and experimental realms for
consciousness raising. Cuthand and Morgan will engage in a “call and response” dialogue working
through archival material, photos and journal entries, from Cuthand’s personal archive with autotheoric
responses by Morgan reflecting on what they have learned about Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer life cycles.
Thirza Cuthand Film Program
Sunday 24 OCT - 11AM-1PM
Neurotransmitting
Anhedonia
Just Dandy
2 Spirit Dream Catcher Dot Com
Extractions
Less Lethal Fetishes
Thirza Cuthand Is an Indian Within the Meaning of the Indian Act
Reclamation
Medicine and Magic
The Site of Whispers
Writer Ashon Crawley and Artist Crystal Z Campbell will examine the various ways that ideas, stories,
and narratives are collected and ask what happens when the things collected are ephemeral? They will
imagine ways that knowledge about Black geographic translation—in its variance and shade, in its
color and texture, in its weight and lightness, in its vibration and sound—moves, how it spreads. The
sound of glances and glimpses, the sight of whispers and hushed words, is where their research resides.
They ask if the sonic component in film is the augmentation of the relationship between remembering
and forgetting, or is the sonic a way to get at the archive and what exceeds its capture? Campbell’s
sonic-centered documentary work honors the untranslatable, strategies of opacity, and rumor. They will
posit together if fragments and gaps in archives can act as historical conductors, offering new
translations or urgent questions, around Black geography, land and body, and the public secrets
embedded in landscapes.
Crystal Z Campbell Film Program
Monday 25 OCT - 11AM-1PM
Hi, Hi, Hi, Highway
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Go-Rilla Means War
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A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse
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Viewfinder
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Futures for Failures
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Monday 25 OCT - Film Program
Forms of Errantry
How can the form of experimental documentary address the legacies of colonization as they are lived
today? Scholar Lakshmi Padmanabhan and Filmmaker Miryam Charles will be following the routes opened
up by this question, traveling and filming in India and Haiti (places of origin and belonging for them), to
hear from women both dead and alive about their histories of survival and aesthetics of errantry. They will
seek answers in the fissures between image and sound, personal narrative and political history, and in the
juxtapositions between the dream of an anticolonial future, and the nightmare of our globalized present.
Miryam Charles Film Program
DEC 8 12:00 EST - CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE
Towards The Colonies , 5 min
A Fortress, 6 min
Drei Atlas, 6 min
This House (sneak peak WIP), 77 mins
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