Daniel Schmidt presents: Alienating Resurrections
A moving-image mixtape centered around artist Stan Douglas's broadcast work, with short films by Zia Anger, Eduardo Williams, Honor Levy, Kane Parsons and others.
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Feb 08, 2023, 8:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057, USA
Alienating Resurrections: Stan Douglas’s broadcast work and other artist films
Curated and presented by filmmaker Daniel Schmidt (Diamantino)
We are pleased to welcome filmmaker Daniel Schmidt to guest program a moving-image mixtape, centered around artist Stan Douglas’s Television Spots (1988-88) and Monodramas (1991). A voracious cinephile and perverse satirist whose films bend genres toward the unclassifiable, Schmidt’s ongoing interest in themes of cinematic reincarnation and resurrection is borne out in this wide-ranging selection of films, which span from the early talkies era to millennial arthouse cinema to creepypasta and TikTok videos. These are playfully interspersed and placed into conversation with Douglas’s single-channel works, mimicking their disruptive and dissociative deployment on Canadian television in the 1990s.
Special thanks to Gal Amiram and David Zwirner Gallery.
Monodramas
Stan Douglas, Canada, approx. 5m
TV Spots
1987-1988, Stan Douglas, Canada, approx. 4m
Tomatoes Another Day
1930, James Sibley Watson, U.S., 7m
This Is My Kingdom (Estes es mi reino)
2010, Carlos Reygadas, Mexico, 13m
I Remember Nothing
2015, Zia Anger, U.S., 18m
Could See a Puma
2011, Eduardo Williams, Argentina, 17m
The Backrooms
2022, Kane Parsons, U.S., 9m
Selected TikToks
2022, Honor Levy, U.S., 5m
Total runtime: approx. 75m