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After the initial live event, the program will be available for on-demand viewing until 12am midnight EDT on 3/31


Recent experimental films that include facts and imaginations, memories and impressions; the Quinta da Regaleira; vintage automobiles and faded mannequins; spoken word poetry; a subversive spin on the traditional mythology of women; and tension between the in and out of focus. Jessica Mensch closes the program with a live performance invoking the keeper of the threshold that separates the living from the dead.


Sponsor: College For Creative Studies

In a space between past and present, nostalgia and jargon, signal and image, Dialectic is an experimental single-channel video that explores an old 1950s gas station museum in rural Missouri. The vintage automobiles and faded mannequins are imbued with the myth of American exceptionalism and cannot stand against the condition of their encoded contradiction.

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    9 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Note
    Clarence, Missouri
  • Filmmaker
    Jason F Bernagozzi