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shareFeels like I’m dreaming, but I’m not sleeping. Kitch cartoons bobbing up and down, AI dopplegangers stretched out in limos, mermaids gorging on each other, BTS joining the army – images so strange and unsettling they rise to the level actually describing our reality. This program brings together four visionary filmmakers who approach media and fantasy as parallel dimensions to our own, shaping us just as much as we invent them. There’s no beginning and there is no end.
Post-screening Q&A scheduled with filmmakers.
Join us for a very special Artist Talk on Monday, November 11, 4-5PM at University of San Diego, with ALISON NGUYEN contemporary artist and HISTORY AS HYPNOSIS filmmaker. This talk is free and open to the public.
In this program
A Child Already Knows
Directed by Tiffany Sia
Public imageries archive private imaginaries in Tiffany Sia’s latest, a story of a family’s escape from Shanghai, recounted through the fragmentary perspective of a child, Mao-era cartoons, and train sounds.
OT7
Directed by Sofia Chang
Two friends process news of their favorite boy band, while footage of the band captures deep cut and earnest fandom, its escapist pleasures, and changes within oneself.
The Land At the Bottom of the Sea
Directed by Jen Liu
The final chapter of Jen Liu’s Pink Slime Caesar Shift series is a cannibalistic communion of lab-grown meat, CD-ROM era effects, biotech marketing and hungry mermaids.
history as hypnosis
Directed by Alison Nguyen
Three Vietnamese women, reprogrammed by AI, cruise the LA streets in a white stretch limousine in Alison Nguyen’s experimental comedy about forgetting, remembering, and coming in the air tonight.
