Contact Film Series: An Evening of Film Shorts

2125 Adelbert Road,Cleveland OH 44106

15 November, 2022

Description

An Evening of Film Shorts Programmed by Suneil Sanzgiri ​ Priya Sen & Nicolás Grandi, Faasla (Distance), 2020 Bassem Saad, Congress of Idling Persons, 2021 Akosua Adoma Owusu, Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us Natasha Raheja, A Gregarious Species, 2021 Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Spit on the Broom, 2019 About the Contact Film Series: In conjunction with Contact, an exhibition conceived and organized by Renée Green for moCa Cleveland as part of FRONT International 2022, the artist has curated a film series expanding on the exhibition’s exploration of the poetics of relation. Beginning with the 1997 film Contact, an inspiration for the exhibition and a lens through which to interpret it, the series is an essential component of Green’s project. The series, screened in Case Western Reserve University’s Strosacker Auditorium, includes a wide breadth of films by Green, her peers, and filmmakers who have been influential to the artist’s practice. ​Presented in partnership with FRONT International and the Case Western Reserve Film Society.