Danielle Siembieda employs emerging technologies as a new media artist to explore the sublime entanglement of humankind, nature, and technology, as revealed specifically by the climate crisis and recent radical innovations in science. Her work is a form of cyborg-eco-feminist, science-fiction, rooted in real discoveries, that works to articulate new hybrid forms of living and being at these liminal borders.
Dates:
Saturday, May 11, 2024 - 18:00 to Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 15:00
Theme: (Re) Cover StoryDaily front pages across platforms circulate crisis, desperation and disasters, fueling division and despair. Our focus fragmented, analysis paralyzed, we struggle to discern urgent news from narratives designed to mask them. War, post-pandemic economic doom, scarcity, conflicts, inflation, deficit, unregulated AI, climate apocalypse, displacement and new wars broadcast a hopeless reading of our times.
Established in the 2000s and has held The South Award—Chinese Films Competition since its 3rd edition, The South Taiwan Film Festival (STFF) and the Competition aim at encouraging filmmakers, regardless of their gender, race or nationality, who are dedicated to issues concerning the Chinese community, as well as offering the audience film works that embody multi-perspective, radical, avant-garde and innovative spirits.
Join us for a retrospective of works by Tara Najd Ahmadi, presented in partnership with Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film (BEEF).
Ahmadi is an Iranian artist and filmmaker whose recent body of work focuses on creating a panorama of rarely-heard, marginalised stories. Her playful use of the camera reveals subtle socio-political nuances beneath the everyday experience.
The following shorts that will be shown at this screening:
Other Cinema's seasonal celebration of all things Animated is anchored on local hero Jeremy Rourke's sensational set of pixillated eye-poppers, featuring his new piece The Rain Is a Friend of Mine! Jeremy gigs, jigs, and zig-zags over our gallery pedestals in his five-title, half-hour hullaballoo ending with a Toon Tune dedicated to dear departed Helen Hill. Jeremy does a podium handstand in her honor!
In April, OVID.tv is excited to exclusively premiere a selection of recent experimental short films by the polymorphously brilliant “pleasure-seeker par excellence” Wayne Koestenbaum—an acclaimed poet, critic, painter, filmmaker, and distinguished professor at CUNY. Rolling out over the coming months to spread the joy, we bring you the first batch of these strangely mesmerizing encounters, including:
