IT WAS A PLEASURE THEN CU Boulder Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts Graduate Student Showcase
IT WAS A PLEASURE THEN
CU Boulder Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts Graduate Student Showcase
With works by (in order of appearance): Mckenzie Blake, Emily Van Loan, Kate Hinshaw, Jona Gerlach, and Laura Conway.
May 15th, 2020
8pm (not punk time)
The screening is suggested donation of $10 but please pay what you feel comfortable paying and enjoy the work.
Send donations to (venmo *preferred*) @Adan-DeLaGarza
(paypal - *can charge a fee to transfer*) adanschool86@hotmail.com
All money collected goes to the artists in the screening equally.
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Artist: Mckenzie Blake
Title: Word Intelligibility by Picture Identification is a book of the same name
Statement: Word Intelligibility by Picture Identification is a book of the same name, utilized by audiologists as a way to test their patient’s hearing ability. Drawing from my personal memory of this testing I seek to impart the experience onto the viewer. Language and hearing become fragmented visually and audibly.
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Artist: Emily Van Loan
Title: compulsory heterosexuality
Statement: how can we queer a body in solitude? inspired by Adrienne Rich’s Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.
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Artist: Kate E. Hinshaw
Title: Ten Leaves Dilated
Statement: Ten Leaves Dilated is a documentary about the make-believe world crafted by Cabbage Patch Kids to examine the discourses surrounding childbirth and motherhood. A household name in the 80s and 90s, Cabbage Patch Kids are plush dolls that are said to be born out of a head of cabbage. The headquarters, located in Cleveland, Georgia, offers an experience where children can watch their dolls being born through a simulated medical birth where store employees dressed as nurses act out birthing a babydoll from a cabbage patch. The film uses audio interviews of mothers, doulas, and birth professionals alongside a visual exploration of cabbage birthing myths and fairytales throughout history in order to investigate the modern-day cabbage patch fairy tale and its connection to the lack of candid discussion about birthing in our society.
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Artist: Jona Gerlach
Title: The Ken Burns Effect
Statement: Inspired by John Baldessari’s assignments, an absurd journey though cliche and into the digital wilderness.
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Artist: Laura Conway
Title: The Length of Day
Statement: The Length of Day is a collaged essay film about Billie and Dave Bramhall, the artist’s maternal Grandparents and their involvement in the communist party during the McCarthy era. The film explores an archive both inherited and generated of texts, objects, and cinematic fragments in a kind of cinematic seance. Marinated in a bittersweet sadness, The Length of Day mourns loss in multiple timelines; young radicals losing their ideals in the face of history, the death of the protagonists, and the loss of an alternative to capitalism.