Emma Rozanski's 3-channel video installation 'Walden [verb]' continues its journey →

Emma Rozanski's 3-channel video installation Walden [verb] continues its journey this month with screenings at these festivals/galleries:

FIC Autor, Guadalajara Jalisco – Mexico, October 2023

and

Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille and Aix en Provence, France October 2023 – January 2024

https://www.instantsvideo.com/blog/video/walden-verb/

Their videopoetics friendships will also screen the work internationally at these places/dates:
   October, 20 -> 25 : Aknoon art Gallery & Safavi Museum, Ispahan (Iran) for 2 exhibitions
   October   (date to be confirmed): screening with Cairo Video Festival (Egypte)
   October, 18 -> 1er November : [.BOX] Videoart project space in Milan (Italy) for a screening-installation
   October, 18 -> 21 November: Visualcontainer TV (Italy) for a screening program available 24h/24
   November, 2 (6.30pm) : MMAG Foundation (Amman) and Medearts association (Irbid)  (Jordanie) for two screening programs followed by a conversation
   November 6 : French Institute in Palestine for a screening in the frame of Digital November: Gaza and Ramallah.

Earlier thsi year Walden [verb] also screened in these festivals [we forgot to post the news!]

March 2023: Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Modena – Italy

April 2023: Wide Open Film Festival, Oklahoma – USA

Gonzalo Escobar Mora's 'Social Economies' to play at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago Sat Feb 1st 8pm →

Next Sat the 1st of February at 8pm, Gonzalo Escobar Mora’s latest film, ‘Social Economies’, plays at the famous Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago as part of the annual Panorama LatinX Festival.

Gonzalo will be there in person for the Q&A along with the other directors.

Synopsis:

SOCIAL ECONOMIES

2019, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Colombia 22:00 min.

A bag of used clothes. Three women. Their longings, uncertainties, fictions, and realities.

PANORAMA LATINX SHORT FILM SHOWCASE

Filmmakers in person!

The Gene Siskel Film Center’s Panorama Latinx programming and outreach initiative is pleased to announce the second edition of our short film showcase. This year’s edition introduces the works of Chicago-based filmmakers representing Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Addressing the complexities of our time through different genres and methods of storytelling, the films guide us over the nuances of identity and collectivity in the 21st century. From ecology to social dynamics, the directors present a manifold of practices that point to the relevance of imagination in today’s world. In Spanish and English with English subtitles. DCP and ProRes digital.

THIS YEAR'S JURY

• Marcela Fuentes: Associate Professor at Northwestern University and author of Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America

  Alan Medina: Co-founder of filmfront and Inga.

  Marina Resende: artist, researcher and critic for Hyperallergic and THE SEEN, among others.

Directors Carol Bedoy, Sol y Chaski, Sofia Alfaro, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Nat Pyper, Milton Guillén, Gustavo Jardim are scheduled to appear for audience discussion

Roman Susan Gallery and Wedge Projects screen Rozanski's experimental dance film →

‘On the Motion of the Heart and the Blood’, an experimental dance film by Emma Rozanski, made as part of The International Museum of Surgical Science’s Summer/Autumn Residency 2018, will screen in Chicago in a group video show at The Roman Susan Gallery and Wedge Projects streetlight space.

Works will be on two monitors at Wedge 24/7, and projected at Roman Susan after dark – both sites visible from the street when the spaces are closed. Video will be on view at Wedge May 6-26, at Roman Susan May 7-24. Both sites will be playing video on random shuffle. 

On the Motion of the Heart and the Blood in Chicago's STREETLIGHT exhibition →

Our Emma Rozanski’s dance-video installation ‘On the Motion of the Heart and the Blood’ will be exhibited in Chicago next week (4/8 - 4/14) as part of the Roman Susan Gallery’s STREETLIGHT series at Wedge Projects (Howard Street).

The work will be projected in the window of the gallery 24/7 during the week 4/8 - 4/14 , along with a piece by Tracy Miller-Robbins - so put on your spring walking shoes and take a stroll on by Chicago (it’ll be visible from the street). 

ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND THE BLOOD was originally made during Rozanski’s Artist Residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science in 2018. The piece was also photographed by @Bistrik7 ‘s Gonzalo Escobar Mora, and performed by Sienna Broglie and Steveie Stevens of SAIC.

Streetlight at Wedge Projects, 1448 West Howard Street, Chicago, IL, USA
January 7, 2019 - May 26, 2019