Photosensitivity Warning: These films contain strobing, flickering, flashing and other erratic visual elements. Viewer discretion is advised.

Flickering visions of the everyday mediated by torn, scratched and painted celluloid, Solondz’s films play like diaries of a subconscious channeling the mundane, profane, comic and ghastly elements of existence in equal measure. Ordinary objects take on totemic charge and landscapes become part of an unstable psychic geography under Solondz’s spasmodic eye. Filmstrips dance wraithlike, guiding ghostly images, while the artist’s synthesizer fills the ether with richly cacophonous, fragmented soundscapes that enhance the disorienting slippage between masked faces, distant places and celluloid artifacts. Through all this abstraction, a surfeit of feeling makes light of love, lust and loss in their most immediate, sensational forms, indicating nothing less than the messy drives towards sex and death that animate human life.

Featuring:

Luna E Santur (2016, 11min, 35mm)
(tourism studies) (2019, 7min, 35mm)
NE Corridor (2022, 7min, 35mm)
We Don’t Talk Like We Used To (2023, 36min, 35mm)
Xtended Release (Work-in-progress, 15min, 16mm-to-DCP)

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

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