Mimesis 2024 spotlights expanded cinema with an opening night of installation, live performance, and conversation. Grappling with grief, power, and transformations of form, these works translate documentary into embodied experience. Listen to all 3 episodes of How We Stopped It at this <a href="https://www.noahteachey.com/how-we-stopped-it" target="_blank">link</a>

This sound documentary follows Eva, a Spanish tour guide living in Paris for the past 7 years. Eva conducts the Mysteries and Legends Tour every week in the heart of the city in Île Saint-Louis. The tour traces the dark history of Paris, where she introduces her audience to the violence that consumed the city in the Middle Ages. Through Eva’s undying passion for discovery, the piece invites the listener to see beyond what is mostly known of Paris today; asking them to patiently observe the city, and listen deeply to the sound of its ghosts.

The sound of the ghosts

A sensory, sound-centric, visceral observation of female strength, stamina, and struggle, depicted through the visual metaphor of a female fighter. Presented as a three-channel immersive audiovisual installation, it envelops audiences within a trifold of screens to invite a comprehensive witness to female power. This conceptual nonfiction project is in conversation with the echoes of gendered violence, and invites viewers into an experience of female strength that transcends biography or justification.

KILLFACE

One of the late Fred Dewey’s most penetrating texts is reimagined as a film. In the process the text of “What Is Power?” becomes a chorus of very different voices rising to affirm what we find hardest to believe: that power does not reside among the powerful but is always there for the people to reclaim.

Reading Aloud: What Is Power? by Fred Dewey

A meditation on technologies of memory, with close attention paid to medium specificity, this installation considers how Zoom and other pandemic technologies composite onto screens, and also into rooms, flattening and deepening connection, attention, and care.

Holding Patterns

A three-part audio documentary about a small group of people who came together to stop NRG from building an unnecessary fracked gas peaker plant in Astoria, Queens.

How We Stopped It - Episode 1

How We Stopped It - Episode 2

How We Stopped It - Episode 3

Opening Night: Movement Aloud - Q&A

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