And To That I Say This
This Friday, January 18, from 7 to 7:30.
Samson Projects is showing “And To That I Say This”, a film program from six artists with poetic musings on contemporary global issues. I think my news intake would much appreciate a balance of poetic musings.
From the Samson Projects description (with a tidbit about each video piece):
Apropos to the demographical range of artists, the works run the gamut from reverent to light-hearted, verbose to succinct, agitated to unflappable. The meditative, textually rich qualities of Susan Jahoda’s …of a worm in a pomegranate emphasized when juxtaposed with the repetitive tension posed by Emily Roysdon’s POW. Similarly, Sighting In, a short narration of a hunt scene by Justin Kemp. Newspeak, by Liz Unterman, points out certain tendencies of the media in a way that is both clever and poignant and Jesal Kapadia’s This is not a… is at once visually simple, complex, telling and ambiguous.