ONION CITY PROGRAM 6: CLOSURE WAS IN THE AIR | JUNE 9-13
ONION CITY PROGRAM 6: CLOSURE WAS IN THE AIR | JUNE 9-13
The 31st Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival is streaming online from June 9 to 13. This year’s festival includes several in-person screenings and installations. Check out the full program at Onioncityfilmfest.org! Admission is a sliding scale suggested donation.
PROGRAM 6: CLOSURE WAS IN THE AIR
Streaming June 9 – 13, Artist Q&A on Saturday, June 12 at 1:30 pm
Who won the battle, and who’s losing the war? A profound disconnect between the political feeling in the air and its actual manifestation on the ground has defined daily life in recent years. With no clear end in sight, these brief dispatches from the United States, Germany, Sri Lanka, and Palestine focus on sacrifices made and victories won in a new era of exhaustion and fear.
A POTENTIALITY
Adding elements of time and sound to a graphic artwork by Susan Silton, A POTENTIALITY is a structural film about looming totalitarianism that joins the front pages of the 1933 New York Times with a mythic opera from 1944.
Dana Berman Duff
United States, 2020, 16:00 mins
Paper Bag Test
In between spaces; a camera test for access.
Trevon Jakaar Coleman
United States, 2020, 05:00 mins
Passing Through
A call and response to impermanence.
Linda Mary Montano
United States, 2020, 05:00 mins
Misery Next Time
This associative stream of visuals, culled from the past, reflect on the roles of art, labor, and journalism in contemporary Sri Lanka, facing a dubious future ahead.
Rajee Samarasinghe
Sri Lanka / United States, 2021, 05:00 mins
Primavera
A frenetic experimental animation that documents the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests as they intersect in springtime Brooklyn.
Adrian Garcia Gomez
United States, 2020, 05:00 mins
The Jump
Set within the tectonic rift of the Jordan Valley, the film is narrated by a robotic voice that guides us through dizzying shots of the landscape while speculating the conditions surrounding a Palestinian man’s jump into the Mediterranean.
Shuruq Harb
Palestine, 2021, 10:00 mins
News From Nowhere
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not misery but refinement.” - William Morris
Ben Balcom
United States, 2020, 08:00 mins
East Technical High School (Smart)
A Smart car blindly learns how to parallel park at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio graduated the brilliant Jesse Owens.
Kevin Jerome Everson
United States, 2021, 04:00 mins
WHIMP
Footage from the Chicago Federal Center Plaza captured by Julia Fish in 2018 and edited by Jesse Malmed in 2020.
Julia Fish and Jesse Malmed
United States, 2020, 02:00 mins
