Another Experiment By Women 
presents a show with guest curator Sasha Waters Freyer

Try a Little Tenderness is a selection of old and new works in 16mm film and video about being vulnerable – exposed and unsafe.  Susceptible, yet ready.  The program is a personal and collective response to the ontology of artistic canons in and of themselves.  It presents a selection of works that cross and expose the boundaries by including Net Art, music video, performance-documentation and video art alongside more traditional approaches to experimental cinema.  These nine works address, in very different ways and formats, acts of being naked to the world – the human body in search of love, food, adventure or acceptance; the human challenge to “acceptable” conduct based on race and gender stereotypes. Try It  –  Try a Little Tenderness.  With works by Greta Snider, Kelly Gallagher, Tova Mozard, Ira Eduardovna, Jennifer Chan, Alma Alloro, Laurel Nakadate, Leslie Hall, Roger Beebe and Sasha Waters Freyer.

VISIONS in collaboration with the Festival du nouveau cinéma presents : Richard Kerr + Michaela Grill + Emmanuel Lefrant (16mm, 35mm, 60mins)

Shot in the deserts of the American Southwest, Kerr’s The Last Days of Contrition (1988) is a poetic, harrowing vision of the apocalyptic consequences of militarism and the bankruptcy of the American ideal. The film is set after the fall. Disembodied voices prophesize and attest over a swirling ménage of unsettling desert landscapes, weaponry and dystopian nationalist symbolism. Richard Kerr’s film is followed by shorts by Emmanuel Lefrant (France) and Michaela Grill (Austria). Lefrant’s film work is based on abstraction being apprehended as landscape — a landscape that is the actor or producer of emotions and subjective experiences. The films are based on the idea of representing or revealing an invisible world, a nature that one does not see, through the secret forms of the emulsion. Grill builds her work via the digital format, which she considers the most radical form for rethinking the film image. Her videos, a skillful synergy between image and sound, address the question of cinematic perception and its reduction into abstract forms.