Close-Up Film Committee Shorts & Performance Program
7:00 pm
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Location: AGH Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Pavilion
7:00 pm
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Tickets Required
Location: AGH Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Pavilion
Contributing a range of voices to international conversations around identity in the digital age, the Close-Up program features 8 films and a performance exploring the mask of anonymity and the online re-shaping of identity through “archival tools” such as YouTube videos, Google Streetview, and video games.
TRIUMPH IN THE SKIES
Fang Di, 5 minutes
Three stewardesses explore changing their appearance into anyone else’s wish.
TRANS TALKS
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, 3 minutes
An experimental, animated talk show seeks to “get this trauma show on the road!”
MONUMENT OF DISTANCE
Saiyar Azar, 7 minutes
The artist deconstructs a video of a beloved Iranian-Azerbaijani singer through repeated copying.
TAKING IS TOO EASY, BUT THAT’S THE WAY IT IS (DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION?)
Alvin Luong, 2 minutes
An absurdist revolutionary embodiment, complete with Spice Girls and video games.
ON THE LINE
Tina Takemoto, 6 minutes
A queer meditation on the Japanese women employed at pre-war canneries in San Diego.
YOUR FATHER WAS BORN 100 YEARS OLD, AND SO WAS THE NAKBA
Razan Al-Salah, 7 minutes
Google Maps Streetview offers the only path back to a Palestinian grandmother’s hometown.
SIRA
Rolla Tahir, 6 minutes
Starting with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, this film tracks the displacement of a family through excavated footage and narration.
AYESHA
Yanyu Dong, 20 minutes
An imagined biography of the artist’s mother, who once dreamt in her youth of becoming a Bollywood dancer.
APOCALYPSE IN YOUR BEDROOM
James Knott, Live Performance
Layers of projection, audio, choreography, and stage props coalesce in a black-box style theatrical spectacle investigating the elusive and dichotomous nature of the artist’s identity.
Single Tickets: $12
10-Pack Pass: $108
Festival Lover All-Access Pass: $250
AGH Member Single Tickets (until October 11): $10
Portrait de Mlle Durand (Portrait of a Lady) 1853
Jean Léon Gerome (French 1824-1904)
oil on canvas, The Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Collection, 2002