She Puppet, Peggy Ahwesh, 2001, 15 min
Part I: Despair, Catalina Segú Jensen, 2020, 26 min
Impresiones para una máquina de luz y sonido
(Impressions of a light and sound machine),
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2014, 7 min

Screenings will begin at 6:15 p.m.

The 19th Installment of On Film presents: Performance Through Cinema, a three-day series that explores different iterations of performance as a conceptual paradigm in cinema. It features works by Peggy Ahwesh, Catalina Segú Jensen, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Meredith Monk, Basma Alsharif, Thirza Cuthand, Standish Lawder, Harun Farocki, and Naomi Uman.

The first screening, “Body/Place/Performance,” underscores how performing bodies create imaginary geographies and activate histories of place. The second screening expands on these explorations of performance with a program titled “Performance/Anti-performance,” which features three works that test the limits of what constitutes performance. Our final screening, “Performing Mediums,” presents filmmakers figuring the mediums of film, TikTok, and video games as performing entities in themselves. Together, the three screenings inquire into the complex relationship between cinema and performance and the possibility of cinema to critique various kinds of performance.

Sponsored by: Visual and Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies, Digital Media Studies, and Modern Languages and Cultures, Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs

Partnered event with the Dance and Movement Program’s inspireDANCEFestival