Screening and discussion
Admission starts at $5
May 13, 2023, 5pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Saturday, May 13 at 5pm for a screening of films by the French-German artist Maya Schweizer. The evening will feature a curated selection of Schweizer’s film and video works spanning the last fifteen years, and will be followed by an in-person conversation with the artist.
Schweizer’s body of works explores themes such as memory, perception, and representation. Blurring the line between artistic and documentary expression, Schweizer’s films reverberate voices of human and non-human histories and scrutinize mnemonic structures and infrastructures, focusing on their social and political shifts over time. By blending personal narratives and historical contexts, Schweizer continues to captivate audiences with cinematic reflections on the human experience within the ever-changing landscape of modern society.
The program is organized with the support of the German Film Office.
Films
Texture of Oblivion (2016, 18 minutes)
This thought-provoking film reflects on the construction of history through material memorials.
Voices and Shells (2020, 18 minutes)
This intricate film-collage entwines historical traces with natural forms.
L’étoile de mer (The Starfish) (2019, 11 minutes)
This experimental voyage through the Mediterranean Sea intermingles underwater shots, silent films, and the artist’s own video archives.
Sans histoire (2023, 28 minutes)
In Sans histoire, Maya Schweizer follows a thought experiment on a consciousness without history. She delves into fears and hopes of impermanence, exploring the museum as an immediate location as well as larger societal processes. What happens when memory fades in the face of historical upheavals, climate catastrophe and, ultimately, the finitude of human existence? Does the past still impact upon the future? Does digital storage delay or hasten an incipient collective amnesia? Alternating between impulses of threat and liberation, the artist explores transhuman and posthuman scenarios.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.