Assembly Cut: A Group Screening
Experimental video and film can take on many forms and mean different things to different people. For our first screening since 2019, we are surveying a wide range of experiments – from glitch art, to music video, to narrative short, to durational, and more. Perhaps the intertwining videos will contradict each other, perhaps they will inform each other. Tonight’s filmmakers are a disparate bunch, each with their own unique voice.
Program Includes:
Roland Dahwen – Las Vegas, Y La Bamba “Rios Sueltos” music video
Leslie Hickey – Phone / Memory
Lily King – November 20, 2024
Brandon Marcoux and Mariana Mora – Two Fernand Rudolph music videos
Matthew Nash – Leaving it Behind
Kai Nealis – Queen
Sarah Turner – But… You’re a Dolphin
Roland Dahwen is a filmmaker, performer, and visual artist. He studied literature and translation before starting to work in documentary and narrative film.
Leslie Hickey is a visual artist, focused primarily on photography. She works in years-long series, gradually accumulating images over time that form a universe unto themselves; a universe composed of objects, chance encounters, and questions. She recently published an image and text book, “The Most Strange Telephone, and Other Memories,” a 160-page softcover book pairing 50 solicited telephone memories from family, friends, and artists alongside photographs from her archive. A physical manifestation of the book was exhibited at PPSTMM earlier this year in a show titled “It’s about time.”
Lily was born and raised in Portland, OR. She is a lover of the everyday.
Brandon Marcoux and Mariana Mora are multidisciplinary artists in Portland, Or. Brandon works primarily in the realms of music production and photo/video. Mariana is primarily focused in the areas of print, digital media, and immersive experiences.
Matthew Nash is a queer video artist, programmer and synth noise maker living in Portland. His work is a study of indeterminacy, audio visualization, algorithmic montage, landscapes and non-human life. One day, he hopes to make a movie his cat will enjoy.
Kai Nealis‘s work ranges from the documentary study of site-specific economic and environmental concerns in Latin America to narrative inquiries into social realist issues in contemporary domestic American life. The direction of his research continues to be influenced by the Latin@ community as well youth urban mentorship initiatives and immigrant youth case management for The Office of Refugee Resettlement. Focusing on issues of land use, class, and globalization, his films have been exhibited most notably at The Cannes Film Festival and The Ivy Film Festival, among others. His video art has been featured in the Ladder exhibition, a pop-up gallery in Upstate New York, and in Feast Your Eyes at Root Division in San Francisco. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Sarah Turner is a new media and video artist who creates large scale immersive environments and performances through analog media and creative coding. She engages in ritual and contemporary mythologies to augment reality through performative psycho spiritual activations and explorations of the absurd. Her work has been shown at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Meow Wolf, Portland Art Museum, Wieden + Kennedy, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Northwest Film Center, Spaceness Festival, Marfa Open Festival, Laboratory Residency and more. Turner received an MFA at Alfred University in Electronic Integrated Art.
