the way things are. the way they are going to be. part seven.
7:30 doors. 8:00 screening (not punk time)
@ Collective Misnomer
955 24th Street, Denver, CO 80205
$15 or pay what you can. No one turned away.
Statement: A screening addressing how our current culture will define and limit the futures available to us.
This program is supported by Denver Arts & Venues through the DAV Arts & Culture Grant.
check out the trailer below!
Title: Fire Season
Artists: Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Quinn Else
Sound/Composer: Thierry Diab
Colorist: Celine Layous
Statement: As wildfires ravage California, bystanders record nature's wrath.
Year: 2021
Origin: USA
Title: Some Things We Tended
Artist: Mars Saude
Statement: Some Things We Tended explores the future of food production in a changing climate through documentation of two sites in mid Wales: an automated research greenhouse and a small-scale organic market garden. These settings lead to a miniature excursion into a speculative future rooted in Welsh soil.
Year: 2023
Origin: Wales (UK)
Title: Geolith
Artist: Brit Bunkley
Statement: An apocryphal story of an encounter between a Navaho tribal elder and the Apollo 11 astronauts is narrated by Desmond Bovey during animated flybys over cyber islands. The moon rolls.
Year: 2018
Origin: NZ/USA
Title: Signal and Noise
Artists: Director-Producers: Jess Shane, Katie Mathews
Producer: Mansoor Adayfi
Editor: Kaija Siirala
Composer: Bassel Al-Rahim
Audio Recordist/Poet: Jordan Scott
Archival footage: Leila Barghouty
Graphics: Matt Delbridge
Statement: In 2015, poet Jordan Scott set out to record the ambient sounds of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp as a means of bypassing its strict media censorship rules. In Signal and Noise, activist and former detainee, Mansoor Adayfi, recalls how sound shaped his experience there. Today, we must resist mass incarceration of migrants. Guantánamo should be shut down, not expanded.
Year: 2022
Origin: US, Canada
Title: Monolith
Artists: Teresita Carson (writer, director, editor), Mark Holt (producer)
Statement: Part essay film, part videopoem, Monolith braids found footage, documentary, experimental, 3D animation and narrative filmmaking devices to explore notions of collectivity, dissent, indigenous knowledge and time as a series of folds, splits, ruptures, loops, clusters, drifts, ascents, descents, vortexes, pulses, rhythms, linkages, aberrations, burials, and unearthings. This shape-shifting film addresses ongoing legacies of nationalist archives, archeology, and coloniality.
Year: 2023
Origin: Mexico
Title: Burner Phone
Artists: Jim Swill
Statement: Do I know you? Not in real life
Year: 2018
Origin: USA