Her films have screened at festivals, internationally including Cannes Film Festival, Outfest LGBT Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and SXSW. Wolkstein has been named a “New Face of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. A 2017-2018 Women at Sundance fellow and 2018 MacDowell Colony Fellow. She is known for directing the 2017 drama-thriller The Strange Ones with Christopher Radcliff and serving on the directorial team for the third season of Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar. Lauren Wolkstein is an American film director, writer, and editor. She is the Associate Faculty Director for Undergraduate Studio Arts in Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has been awarded residencies by The MacDowell Artist Colony, Yaddo, Djerassi, The Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Galveston Artist Residency. Programs of her short work have shown at the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley, Anthology Film Archives in NYC, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Portland Art Museum, and the SF Cinematheque. She views animation as a critical practice, cutting out and collaging as a way to intervene and expand the context of appropriated source materials. Her award-winning films have screened at festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, American Film Institute, Los Angeles Film Festival. Kelly Sears is an experimental animator that recasts and reframes American archetypes and institutions to reimagine our own social and political legacy. She currently teaches in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She is the recipient of Rockefeller and Creative Capital grants. These films have shown around the world, including at the Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale, the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, SXSW, the Wexner Center, and in The Whitney Biennial. Her award-winning narratives borrow from a range of forms including after-school specials, amateur music videos, and magical realism. Jennifer Reeder constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma, and coping.
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This short experimental dance for screen tells a story using a visual language that juxtaposes classical ballet and masked professional wrestling in the lucha libre style. The tone of the animation changes from one of relaxation and healing to the dissociative and traumatic, reflecting on conversations from this past year surrounding bodies, massage, and assault. Instructional massage images sourced from dozens of bodywork books are altered, reordered, and overlaid to shift the emphasis from the actions on the body to reception of the touch.
Lie prone, breathe deeply, release tension. Reeder’s feminist horror fever dream offers a fresh take on the modern Western.Įase the pain from past physical and mental distress. The results boldly reframe the gaze, the body, and representations of desire through resistance and the reclamation of film language.Ī lone woman (Angelica Ross) marks her trail and sheds some excess baggage along the way. The short films in this program investigate the gendered body through tropes and traps of cinematic production, growing out of conversations (both recent and historical) about assault in the filmmaking industry. Light Work’s Urban Video Project is pleased to present the group exhibition HOLD/RELEASE: works by Jennifer Reeder, Kelly Sears, and Lauren Wolkstein from November 7 – December 21, 2019.
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