Tiny Flicks
OPEN FRIDAY & SATURDAY 12 - 5 PM
March 4th - April 29th, 2023
Tiny Flicks is an ephemeral exhibition featuring a selection of short videos viewed through a peephole.
The showing presents eleven different artists and a variety of film styles ranging from but not limited to: Film Noir, Realistic Documentaries, and even Moving Still Images.
Video Descriptions
01. Sara Madandar “Prayer Cloak”
A nude Iranian woman uses a typical Muslim prayer veil to cover her body and speak to issues of gender disparity and censorship.
02. Elivira Castillo “Amor Breathwork Therapy Session”
Cut to popular films of couples arguing, a live breath-work therapy session was curated and filmed in December 2022 for the artist to make peace with ideas of love, and witnessed past relationships.
03. Garima Thakur “you swim, you fly, you scream, you be”
Addresses, teeters, dissects but does not reconcile with the idea that pleasure and desire is placed in dichotomies -- the paradoxical form of sleaze, lusciousness and violence wrapped up together under linen sheets.
04. Varvara Degtiarenko “Barbara’s Game”
A film within a film, about a game of shadows on the beach devised by the artist when she was 6 years old as she struggled to adapt to a new life in the United States after moving with her family from Moscow, Russia. The game was documented by her mother using photography, collage, and expressive storytelling, exploring themes of tolerance, resilience and identity in order to give her child the gift of confidence and self-esteem. Upon discovering her mother's project nearly 20 years later, the artist returned to that healing space of the beach.
05. Theo Eliezer “Patty Cake”
Filmed in early May 2020, Patty Cake is a 20 minute long single channel video depicting a game of patty cake. Through the use of video and archive this work considers intimate proximity and fluctuating conditions of risk during an era of pandemic.
06. Kelsey Scult “Slice”
An experimental film following a relationship born out of the violence of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile interwoven with a budding queer romance between a mortician and the granddaughter of the man she is embalming. SLICE explores how trauma calcifies in the body, how those who perpetuate violence are often survivors of violence themselves, the passage of intergenerational memory, and how new lovers can help heal and release the ghosts we carry.
07. Ruth Owens “Spring”
Home movies are cut to footage of the artist’s daughter singing a classic Nina Simone song.
08. Sally Heller “Aerial View”
Moving images are remixed from films made in New Orleans between 1926 and 1966 by the artist’s father and grandfather. They are pieces of family history and at the same time, the history of New Orleans. The images reveal a city that vacillates between eras, issues of race, and its unique culture.
09. Tom Walton “Painting Install”
The artist interacts with his paintings in new and disorienting ways.
10. Tabitha Nikolai “Shrine Maidens of the Unseelie Court”
Is a playable virtual environment for PC and Mac in which players investigate a strange suburban apocalypse and the queer possibilities for online life in the wreckage. Available free for download at tabithanikolai.itch.io, music by Ultrademon.
11. Nurhan Gokturk “Endless Bloom”
A cluster of flowers scatter and animate until they become a color field of deep magenta.