An intimate theater experience where screenings for pieces within the ITS-IN-SCOPE cinematic archives and pieces from aligned creators are exhibited.
This offering includes tea service, quick bites for sale at the snack bar, showroom access, and a 420-friendly porch. Limited to 10 people per screening.
Our 3pm screening includes the following films (total runtime: 33:45), showtime will begin promptly at 3:30pm:
Desert Is A Stage (4:17)
by So-Lar
This is a visual record captured April - October 2023 during a residency experience in New Mexico. This six-month residency was a collaboration with Carrizozo Artists-In-Residence, and artist Paula Wilson’s MoMAZoZo organization. So-LAR hosted a series of artists, writers, archivists who appear in the video. To learn more visit: so-lar.org/residency
Searching_ (14:20)
by Juniper Jones
In crafting affirmative documents for my archive, I began to consider how social media stored on the internet influences my relationship with my body. This curiosity led me to assemble a short film comprised of footage found on the internet. While working with the footage I considered how the decontextualization of imagery could altogether subvert or unearth a narrative that wasn't there prior. From that curiosity, I moved to assemble footage that pointed to the iconography of Blackness, queerness, masculinity, intimacy, movement, pornography, and familial dynamics with the overarching goal of answering a question for myself: what images subconsciously influence your understanding of sensuality? The resulting answer came in the form of a video with a runtime of 14:20 titled “Searching_”.
The Sun Seeker (15:08)
by Jacob Nadir Gray, Kristina Marie Garnett, and Marvin James
In the spirit of jazz cinema, The Sun Seeker is an ode to our collective inclination towards movement: the intuitive-ancestral type we call Telepathic Rhythms. Through the magic of music, memory, and movement, this visual poem captures the whimsical imaginations of youth coloring beyond the bounds of city life.
Stick around after the screening to chill and chat with other film fans until 5pm.