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𝗧𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗦, 𝗢𝗖𝗧 𝟴 — 𝟳:𝟯𝟬𝗣𝗠

𝗪𝗘’𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗙 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗘 returns with round four: 𝘋𝘐𝘝𝘈𝘚 𝘋𝘌 𝘔𝘈𝘚 𝘔𝘜𝘌𝘙𝘛𝘈𝘚. 💀🌼✨

Our shape-shifting multimedia series curated by poet 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗼 [ ] and writer/curator 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 [ Rachael Rakes ] merges live performance, reading, sound, and moving image — not quite a reading, not quite performance, not ekphrasis. WS2DOATN is a porous encounter between words, images, and whatever slips through.

A true diva never really dies, does she? It’s October. It’s time to invoke those merely departed from this plane, them baddies in our bones, keeping us keeping the flame. We, the nearly departed, will lay the marigolds on the altar together. Literally, bring your objects, amulets, and spells along. 🕯️

Featuring:
— Readings by poets 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘆 [ Dorothea Lasky ] & 𝗛𝗮𝗳𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗵 𝗚𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 [ Hafizah Augustus Geter ]
— A screening of 𝘚𝘖𝘔𝘌𝘞𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘌 𝘖𝘕𝘓𝘠 𝘞𝘌 𝘒𝘕𝘖𝘞 by 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗰𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗻 [ Jesse McLean ]

Each edition begins with a phrase and lets it turn, unravel, and reassemble through fragments, feelings, artworks, live interventions, and the particular urgencies of the moment.

𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗕 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 🔗 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗢

𝗦𝗨𝗡, 𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗧 𝟮𝟳 — 𝟳:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺 Join us for a special evening with filmmaker and artist 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 [ Jessica Sarah Rinland ], moving across performance, reading, and film to explore the work of pioneering Argentine experimental filmmaker and artist 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵 [ Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch ]

The evening emerges from Rinland’s ongoing work on a book centered on Hirsch’s graffiti made during Argentina’s 1976–83 military dictatorship, considering these inscriptions as political and artistic gestures within Hirsch’s expansive practice across film, performance, photography, and public intervention.

For the program, Rinland will present a performance and reading from her developing research alongside a selection of Hirsch’s films, drawing connections between her moving-image work and the marks, gestures, and interventions she made beyond the screen.

Together, we’ll trace a broader history of political graffiti and ask what it means to make an image, leave a mark, or intervene in public space under conditions of repression. Rinland will be in conversation with filmmaker and artist 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶á𝗻 𝗗´𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 [ julian d'angiolillo ].

Come through for a close encounter with Narcisa Hirsch’s extraordinary body ofwork, moving between cinema, performance, writing, and the street.

𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 🔗 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗢

𝗧𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗦, 𝗢𝗖𝗧 𝟭 — 𝟳:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺 How do documentary makers continue to work critically, responsibly, and safely in a rapidly shifting political landscape, increasingly threatening to those organizing and documenting on the ground?

Presented as part of 𝗙𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗢𝗙 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗢𝗠, join us for a special conversation bringing together filmmakers and collaborators 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 [Rachel Lauren Mueller] and 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘀, with radio producer and Radiolab creator 𝗝𝗮𝗱 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝗺𝗿𝗮𝗱 [Jad Abumrad] to consider the practical and ethical questions facing political documentary in the United States today.

Using Mueller and Poitras’ recent collaboration 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘠’𝘙𝘌 𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘌, documenting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis, as a starting point, they’ll draw from their experiences across on-the-ground organizing, investigative film, journalism, data, sound, and nonfiction storytelling to ask how makers navigate access and risk, protect sources and collaborators, and safeguard their teams and materials.

Together, we’ll think through the technical, ethical, and communal infrastructures that make rigorous and independent documentary work possible, and what it might take to strengthen them in a moment of heightened scrutiny.

Come through!

𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 🔗 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗢

𝗦𝗨𝗡, 𝗢𝗖𝗧 𝟰 — 𝟳:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺 Join us for a special evening with filmmaker and artist 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗗𝗲́𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘁, bringing together three films that move between ethnography and fabulation, archival research and critical theory to reckon with the spectral lives of images and the histories of violence that continue to haunt them.

We’ll be screening 𝘓𝘈𝘕𝘋𝘚𝘓𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘚 (2020), 𝘜𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘙 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘚𝘒𝘠 𝘖𝘍 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘍𝘌𝘛𝘐𝘚𝘏𝘌𝘚 (2023), and Déodat’s newest work, 𝘕𝘖𝘚𝘛𝘙𝘈 𝘔𝘌𝘔𝘖𝘙𝘐𝘈 (2026).

Across these works, Déodat moves through colonial archives, personal genealogies, myth, dance, and landscape to trace the enduring imaginaries of slavery, colonialism, fascism, and Empire, while asking how histories erased or distorted by dominant narratives might be encountered otherwise.

Following the screening, Déodat will be joined by writer, researcher, and film programmer 𝗬𝗮𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 for a conversation around their shared interests in African and Afro-diasporic expressive cultures, aesthetic remembrance, and the politics of camera-based technologies.

Come through!

𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 🔗 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗢

𝗦𝗨𝗡, 𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗧 𝟮𝟳 — 𝟳:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺 Join us for a special evening with filmmaker and artist 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 [Jessica Sarah Rinland], moving across performance, reading, and film to explore the work of pioneering Argentine experimental filmmaker and artist 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵.

The evening emerges from Rinland’s ongoing work on a book centered on Hirsch’s graffiti made during Argentina’s 1976–83 military dictatorship, considering these inscriptions as political and artistic gestures within Hirsch’s expansive practice across film, performance, photography, and public intervention.

For the program, Rinland will present a performance and reading from her developing research alongside a selection of Hirsch’s films, drawing connections between her moving-image work and the marks, gestures, and interventions she made beyond the screen.

Together, we’ll trace a broader history of political graffiti and ask what it means to make an image, leave a mark, or intervene in public space under conditions of repression.

Come through for a close encounter with Narcisa Hirsch’s extraordinary body of work, moving between cinema, performance, writing, and the street.

𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 🔗 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗢

𝗙𝗥𝗜, 𝗢𝗖𝗧 𝟮 — 𝟳:𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺

Join us for a special screening and conversation with essay filmmaker 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗻 [Charlie Shackleton], kicking off our upcoming workshop weekend!

We’ll be screening two of Shackleton’s recent films: 𝘊𝘈𝘔𝘌𝘙𝘈 𝘛𝘌𝘚𝘛 (𝘒𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘊𝘈𝘋𝘉𝘜𝘙𝘠), a documentary readymade that turns a routine camera test into an investigation of a mysterious mid-century Cadbury’s commercial preserved in family lore, alongside 𝘡𝘖𝘋𝘐𝘈𝘊 𝘒𝘐𝘓𝘓𝘌𝘙 𝘗𝘙𝘖𝘑𝘌𝘊𝘛, his ingenious account of the true crime documentary he tried and failed to make.

Winner of the NEXT Innovator Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, 𝘡𝘖𝘋𝘐𝘈𝘊 𝘒𝘐𝘓𝘓𝘌𝘙 𝘗𝘙𝘖𝘑𝘌𝘊𝘛 reconstructs Shackleton’s unrealized film beat by beat, using vacant Bay Area landscapes, stylized re-enactments and his own wry narration to turn an abandoned project into a playful critique of true crime and its familiar conventions.

Following the screening, Shackleton will join us for a conversation about first-person filmmaking, documentary persona, and what becomes possible when a filmmaker’s own perspective and personality become part of the method.

Plus, join us for the full three-day workshop, 𝗢𝗖𝗧 𝟮–𝟰: 𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗗𝗢𝗡’𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗪: 𝗔𝗗𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧-𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚

There are only a couple of spots remaining!

Led by 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗻, the workshop turns the old documentary mantra “show don’t tell” on its head to ask how a filmmaker’s personality, perspective, positionality and biases can become creative tools. Across screenings, discussion and experimentation, we’ll explore the possibilities of first-person cinema and what an unmistakable authorial voice can bring to nonfiction filmmaking.

Shackleton will be joined by an incredible lineup of guest filmmakers: 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿, 𝗝𝗼𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗔𝗿𝗻𝗼𝘄 [Joanna Arnow] and 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘁 [ Rebeca Huntt ]!

Catch the Early Bird Registration by SEP 22 and get $55 off! 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥 🔗 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗢

New workshop alert! 𝗨𝗡𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗬 𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦: 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗚𝗘, 𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 & 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗩𝗘 ✂️

𝗢𝗖𝗧 𝟮𝟯–𝟮𝟱, join filmmaker and animator 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 [Kelly Sears] for a three-day workshop exploring what becomes possible when images are displaced, recast, cut up, and reassembled. We’ll think through the politics and aesthetics of reappropriation, approaching the image as raw material: flexible, unfixed, and available for transformation.

What can be revealed when an image is released from its original context? What happens when historical documents, institutional archives, family photographs, fragmented media, and the scraps of everyday visual culture are brought into collision? How might we turn a culture of surveillance and consumption into material for its own critique?

Through screenings, discussion, and experimentation, participants will explore how remix, animation, and transformation can unsettle the intended function of an image and generate new narratives, temporalities, and unexpected connections.

Sears will be joined by an incredible lineup of artists with distinctive approaches to reworking existing images: 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 [Bill Morrison] will delve into his recent work with surveillance materials; 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 will share how composite imagery can reframe the assumptions of mainstream media; and acclaimed photographer 𝗞𝗲𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 [Keisha Scarville] will explore her iterative approach to reinterpretation and artistic reappropriation.

Come ready to cut up, reassemble, and reconsider the images that surround us, and leave with new ways of thinking about collage as both an aesthetic and political strategy.

Early Bird Registration ends on 𝗢𝗖𝗧 𝟭𝟲 — register early to get $55 off! 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥 🔗 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗢