https://movingwitness.com emir west Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:01:19 +0000 https://movingwitness.com en https://movingwitness.com/Slideshow Thu, 01 Sep 2022 16:07:05 +0000 emir west https://movingwitness.com/Slideshow <img width="750" height="840" width_o="750" height_o="840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19fb0b9d622af34253a6ee8d0664b4b71f4ed18bcc80a6d15efc53abe156b8d6/X_prtfolio.jpg" data-mid="151859263" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/19fb0b9d622af34253a6ee8d0664b4b71f4ed18bcc80a6d15efc53abe156b8d6/X_prtfolio.jpg" /> https://movingwitness.com/video-works Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:00:18 +0000 emir west https://movingwitness.com/video-works <img width="3455" height="1942" width_o="3455" height_o="1942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/408ae0de54ee6554092cc2183b247d3346e1abd7137b6708e7d095c2ce9f6905/Sepia-screenshot.jpg" data-mid="223192888" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/408ae0de54ee6554092cc2183b247d3346e1abd7137b6708e7d095c2ce9f6905/Sepia-screenshot.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="1948" width_o="3456" height_o="1948" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44a462d630da763b3e003eb417888e7b5af58ef7dfdf7a05b336150ecc3f6519/CRTY--08.jpeg" data-mid="210837755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44a462d630da763b3e003eb417888e7b5af58ef7dfdf7a05b336150ecc3f6519/CRTY--08.jpeg" /> <img width="5120" height="2880" width_o="5120" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c732a2e13290e30aeb101fbde23973cb7bff688b0243ae63e0065759c17c2e85/Screen-Shot-2022-02-04-at-12.20.19-PM.png" data-mid="169777921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c732a2e13290e30aeb101fbde23973cb7bff688b0243ae63e0065759c17c2e85/Screen-Shot-2022-02-04-at-12.20.19-PM.png" /> https://movingwitness.com/sound-performance Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:13:57 +0000 emir west https://movingwitness.com/sound-performance <img width="1024" height="1544" width_o="1024" height_o="1544" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d878438b8cffa271f90e098c5ced314b1740fdfd8c657b6666e8ba81206fe185/cavesshow.jpg" data-mid="169780220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d878438b8cffa271f90e098c5ced314b1740fdfd8c657b6666e8ba81206fe185/cavesshow.jpg" /> https://movingwitness.com/commercial-commission Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:29:10 +0000 emir west https://movingwitness.com/commercial-commission Post-Production Sound + Video Sound Design/Mix | The Hive Queen dir. Tempest Creation (2025)Score/Sound Design/Mix | Monster dir. Gelare Khoshgozaran + Hande Serve (2025) Sound Design | Wasted (documentation) by Peggy Chiang (2024)Custom Foley + SFX | PURPOSES dir. Martine Syms (2024)Sound Design/Mix | Lemon Curd dir. Eleonora Saravalle (2024)Edit/Score/Sound Design &nbsp;| Ball Don’t Lie for Nike x Architecture dir. by Martine Syms (2023)Score | Pieces of Earth We Eat dir. by Lu Yim (2023)Sound Design | A Blue Estate dir. by Savannah Anthony Lyons (2022)Edit/Score/Sound Design | Nightmare/Dream dir. by Martine Syms (2022)Edit/Sound Design | The Non-Hero (Parts 1 - 4) dir. by Martine Syms (2021)Score | To My Mother dir. by Mariana Sanchez Bueno (2018) <img width="2594" height="1372" width_o="2594" height_o="1372" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b78a5b3e98b935d3458d351664569ee1d67c59de3025038bad2730150ae0bfed/Screen-Shot-2025-05-27-at-12.09.58-PM.png" data-mid="233792095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b78a5b3e98b935d3458d351664569ee1d67c59de3025038bad2730150ae0bfed/Screen-Shot-2025-05-27-at-12.09.58-PM.png" /> <img width="1024" height="576" width_o="1024" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2551f48b9185bd5f5fab57138cbdeefe0aad1d87cea34b8c90967d9f947a279c/monster.png" data-mid="233792049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2551f48b9185bd5f5fab57138cbdeefe0aad1d87cea34b8c90967d9f947a279c/monster.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1429" width_o="2000" height_o="1429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c343d0cd5343439ba42cb1a54481a34776cf5a7c7d9d332ca1a5b67fd798fab/wastedpc.jpg" data-mid="233791660" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c343d0cd5343439ba42cb1a54481a34776cf5a7c7d9d332ca1a5b67fd798fab/wastedpc.jpg" /> <img width="773" height="580" width_o="773" height_o="580" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45ec39109f72ddef1ee4317bd2d2140c17737f92b4d8e0b6238f0150b400973b/installation_view__martine_syms__present_goo__sadie_coles_hq__davies_street__14_september_-_4_november_2023_1.jpeg" data-mid="233791979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/773/i/45ec39109f72ddef1ee4317bd2d2140c17737f92b4d8e0b6238f0150b400973b/installation_view__martine_syms__present_goo__sadie_coles_hq__davies_street__14_september_-_4_november_2023_1.jpeg" /> <img width="2250" height="1392" width_o="2250" height_o="1392" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/621c19e4756da09de493a8b49f5e80a451034f1d47d46fe72646866e1db72265/Screen-Shot-2025-05-27-at-12.05.37-PM.png" data-mid="233792031" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/621c19e4756da09de493a8b49f5e80a451034f1d47d46fe72646866e1db72265/Screen-Shot-2025-05-27-at-12.05.37-PM.png" /> <img width="739" height="415" width_o="739" height_o="415" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c9179f0766b7079e15f2156fe24cfd031e200067536c6dbb0893466c5387860/ezri-maya_739.jpg" data-mid="223190661" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/739/i/7c9179f0766b7079e15f2156fe24cfd031e200067536c6dbb0893466c5387860/ezri-maya_739.jpg" /> <img width="2560" height="1439" width_o="2560" height_o="1439" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c90d34c928cf40ba39c43f29a17247d057140415c05a391af043ab251d4d751/Actors-The-Blue-Esate-scaled.jpeg" data-mid="223190711" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c90d34c928cf40ba39c43f29a17247d057140415c05a391af043ab251d4d751/Actors-The-Blue-Esate-scaled.jpeg" /> <img width="3449" height="1945" width_o="3449" height_o="1945" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/788468fcf778117ddcd5e547c104ebf98eff67766086b4f604109bb280e3f8d2/NightmareDream_Still-.png" data-mid="169847787" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/788468fcf778117ddcd5e547c104ebf98eff67766086b4f604109bb280e3f8d2/NightmareDream_Still-.png" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7973a4c9a0d276cdc717ac0baf8fb986ecf5fc56e3f44e93fe2b1b18521cb0d/dsc_7408-2.jpg" data-mid="169847832" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7973a4c9a0d276cdc717ac0baf8fb986ecf5fc56e3f44e93fe2b1b18521cb0d/dsc_7408-2.jpg" /> <img width="3046" height="2226" width_o="3046" height_o="2226" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/169fd35efc46dc092152eade2dcb7963a6a94cd6ce373ac34c124eb39c64a668/Screen-Shot-2023-02-28-at-10.04.39-PM.png" data-mid="170075432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/169fd35efc46dc092152eade2dcb7963a6a94cd6ce373ac34c124eb39c64a668/Screen-Shot-2023-02-28-at-10.04.39-PM.png" /> Production Producer | Revolver Magic Wand dir. by Cherry Nin (2024)Associate Producer | Subterranean Moon dir. by Sky Hopinka (2024) Assistant Camera | What is Perverse is Liquid dir. by A.K. Burns (2023)Art Department Coordinator | The African Desperate dir. by Martine Syms (2022)Assistant Director + Producer | PEAK HEAVEN LOVE FOREVER dir. by Jordan Strafer (2022)Associate Producer | maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore dir. by Sky Hopinka (2020) Script + Production Assistant dir. by Ephraim Asili&nbsp;(2020)Art Department Leadman | Salacia + Mary Ill of Fame dir. by Tourmaline (2019) <img width="3446" height="1937" width_o="3446" height_o="1937" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e12b0a8e9a95f5abe51228b2599118466fb3ea8bda6c65887a472027f89eab4/rmw.jpg" data-mid="223190878" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e12b0a8e9a95f5abe51228b2599118466fb3ea8bda6c65887a472027f89eab4/rmw.jpg" /> <img width="4096" height="2160" width_o="4096" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce3c1bd43315acb0510ade0cc7c51a2e22357794688bcd26df8632e9734c343f/subterraneanmoon.jpg" data-mid="223191382" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce3c1bd43315acb0510ade0cc7c51a2e22357794688bcd26df8632e9734c343f/subterraneanmoon.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ca10f8633922957f8200e860c33213a875ca63cd001b5b6324590d69f07fe14/whatisperverse.jpeg" data-mid="223191202" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ca10f8633922957f8200e860c33213a875ca63cd001b5b6324590d69f07fe14/whatisperverse.jpeg" /> <img width="1935" height="936" width_o="1935" height_o="936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74247d173383353d72a756ba84bbd3f89ca2fb3a698148b9cc738f503b979cbd/Screenshot-2023-02-27-at-14-42-52-The-First-Feature-Film-From-Martine-Syms-Is-a-Hazy-Alluring-Send-Up-of-the-Art-World.png" data-mid="169869780" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74247d173383353d72a756ba84bbd3f89ca2fb3a698148b9cc738f503b979cbd/Screenshot-2023-02-27-at-14-42-52-The-First-Feature-Film-From-Martine-Syms-Is-a-Hazy-Alluring-Send-Up-of-the-Art-World.png" /> <img width="2800" height="1575" width_o="2800" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c9452f52a878bca92ce6b134802aba5d88cb29cf367d1ba4d430d076759979c/videostill5.jpg" data-mid="169869468" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c9452f52a878bca92ce6b134802aba5d88cb29cf367d1ba4d430d076759979c/videostill5.jpg" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3406f22e4b9d8fb8cdc53bc164bab67f17c5dcd8b5f09af2a5faa1ae9b8ae423/babfc62d-e705-4567-aa01-4ddb757740b9.jpeg" data-mid="223191384" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/3406f22e4b9d8fb8cdc53bc164bab67f17c5dcd8b5f09af2a5faa1ae9b8ae423/babfc62d-e705-4567-aa01-4ddb757740b9.jpeg" /> <img width="1500" height="844" width_o="1500" height_o="844" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1cd99cd9d8ff2ebce5959a0b617ef5f1f4adcbd13b1050193764605d3ab213e/Ephraim_Asili_2020.jpg" data-mid="223191565" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1cd99cd9d8ff2ebce5959a0b617ef5f1f4adcbd13b1050193764605d3ab213e/Ephraim_Asili_2020.jpg" /> <img width="900" height="475" width_o="900" height_o="475" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5505c4474f76e5630f9e088fd7622af4dc3cc66c937f9229245c7e2bfb9c784f/Tourm-6.jpg" data-mid="170075883" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/5505c4474f76e5630f9e088fd7622af4dc3cc66c937f9229245c7e2bfb9c784f/Tourm-6.jpg" /> Special ProjectsMixing Engineer &nbsp;| maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore by Thaddeus Kellstadt (2020) Sky Hopinka Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Vinyl EP <img width="2400" height="1700" width_o="2400" height_o="1700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8db890d8dfeae209afa8e1e8c6622c9c025480bf6145ee30cdfb81ac4acc5ffe/052021_malni_lp_mockup-front1.jpg" data-mid="169848322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8db890d8dfeae209afa8e1e8c6622c9c025480bf6145ee30cdfb81ac4acc5ffe/052021_malni_lp_mockup-front1.jpg" /> https://movingwitness.com/concrete-resources Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:01:19 +0000 emir west https://movingwitness.com/concrete-resources Concrete Resources&nbsp;(Thank you for keeping me a company of images) <img width="1765" height="1170" width_o="1765" height_o="1170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c87785b5626006d2f5c250d5bbe755f7b82e4e2506aa08107c6d98a7343cbe9/interrupted-vista.jpg" data-mid="169784338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c87785b5626006d2f5c250d5bbe755f7b82e4e2506aa08107c6d98a7343cbe9/interrupted-vista.jpg" /> Inseparable from its legacy as ‘the land of lakes and volcanoes’ is Nicaragua’s legacy as a ‘country of poets,’ rendering a resistance that is encountered in all physical senses. Through visual and sonic collage, CONCRETE RESOURCES (Thank you for keeping me a company of images) examines the enmeshment of poetry and violence within Nicaragua’s national identity and the mirrors of this tension in the space of my memory of it as both a home and a destination. Including a text excerpt "La ciudad deshabitada," Ernesto Cardenal. Research and development for this project made possible by EMPAC in Troy, NY. <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01629fafecea09c24e3303dfb1002aa6124240efcbb10edb89b01e45e3c1080c/EmirWest06editedstill-copy.jpg" data-mid="210837494" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01629fafecea09c24e3303dfb1002aa6124240efcbb10edb89b01e45e3c1080c/EmirWest06editedstill-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a13da1904423bc82dcf4fc071a0bc5004ccb8ebde5c0470c57496e09aed8d4d/Bus-Projects---01.05.24-25.05.24-053.jpg" data-mid="210837437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a13da1904423bc82dcf4fc071a0bc5004ccb8ebde5c0470c57496e09aed8d4d/Bus-Projects---01.05.24-25.05.24-053.jpg" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d217d69adcf297af2aa9ba8288273ce3a11ca2804fe55ce98d0ab74ea0d8b7c2/EmirWest03-copy.jpg" data-mid="210837497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d217d69adcf297af2aa9ba8288273ce3a11ca2804fe55ce98d0ab74ea0d8b7c2/EmirWest03-copy.jpg" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85bd21035502783e00928dcb08b21f7c1facd0da36f2aee81b2b7d6fd5a72a6a/EmirWest04editedstill-copy.jpg" data-mid="210837496" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85bd21035502783e00928dcb08b21f7c1facd0da36f2aee81b2b7d6fd5a72a6a/EmirWest04editedstill-copy.jpg" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca41d8657218cd79e973219d29cbb7dc91e2a748823ac4e6ffbc1b7db0812755/EmirWest05editedstill-copy.jpg" data-mid="210837495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca41d8657218cd79e973219d29cbb7dc91e2a748823ac4e6ffbc1b7db0812755/EmirWest05editedstill-copy.jpg" /> 9-min video loop on monitorHD video, found footage, inkjet photo collage on transparency, aluminum foil tape, monitor, stereo sound2024 Installation image courtesy of Bus Projects. Photographer: Christo Crocker. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; https://movingwitness.com/the-visible-city Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:47:30 +0000 emir west https://movingwitness.com/the-visible-city The Visible City Will Perish <img width="4718" height="2624" width_o="4718" height_o="2624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/318e91647328e07f2ddfcada0cf912ef9cd09a3532237e70b9bcd8f715fd3940/Still_TVC2.jpg" data-mid="141592591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/318e91647328e07f2ddfcada0cf912ef9cd09a3532237e70b9bcd8f715fd3940/Still_TVC2.jpg" /> HD video, found footage, animation, stereo sound, 2019. In 2018, Nicaragua’s presidential leader Daniel Ortega announced sweeping reforms to the nation’s social security, placing a threat on the pensions and protections of the working class and elderly. Promoting socialist policies for the working-class in his early presidency and instilling a sense of hope after the overthrowing of the Somoza dictatorship by the Sandinista army decades prior, the protests and subsequent killings following Ortega’s actions rectified feelings of loss and corruption of a country salvaged by the scapegoat of US imperialism. Headlines of the atrocities taking place throughout the country’s capital only several weeks after they occurred further exemplified the lasting effect of the US invasion of Nicaragua and the promises set into place that echoed into the present state of affairs between the two countries. The Visible City Will Perish investigates this feedback loop of promise and loss by stitching together the sparse imagery available online of the Contra Wars and Sandinista Movement and creates new amalgamates of conflict and dissolution through digital animation, overlay, and decay. The work takes its title from the remarks delivered by Ronald Reagan at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in 1984, surrounding the time the US declared a state of emergency in Nicaragua. In stating “the visible city will perish without the invisible city,” Reagan alluded to the powers of a religious kingdom ever-present as a protection against all people under God. The title here examines the meaning of this statement when contextualized as a tool of US imperialism and the false promises of protection from an alleged invisible power. https://movingwitness.com/microphone Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:47:31 +0000 emir west https://movingwitness.com/microphone Microphone, 2015 Mini DV to video, stereo <img width="490" height="467" width_o="490" height_o="467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dc49248922b9e39b80c453f8f5812eaa9d520d12288bb57307a04ed3d900887/Screen-Shot-2016-02-28-at-11.57.51-PM.png" data-mid="141592671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/490/i/3dc49248922b9e39b80c453f8f5812eaa9d520d12288bb57307a04ed3d900887/Screen-Shot-2016-02-28-at-11.57.51-PM.png" /> <img width="3791" height="2873" width_o="3791" height_o="2873" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3106038b397dc9c66eeabade2f6c31442c7c981335d724a3964d754e537eba2f/Microphone---2.png" data-mid="141592882" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3106038b397dc9c66eeabade2f6c31442c7c981335d724a3964d754e537eba2f/Microphone---2.png" /> https://movingwitness.com/physical-media Wed, 04 May 2022 01:15:04 +0000 emir west https://movingwitness.com/physical-media <img width="2550" height="2040" width_o="2550" height_o="2040" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0329fcd95ee6bc4095430ee792f53a556650d3445ddca813f786442e06e9d5cc/Crescendo_GN_01-copy-smallest.jpg" data-mid="141593483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0329fcd95ee6bc4095430ee792f53a556650d3445ddca813f786442e06e9d5cc/Crescendo_GN_01-copy-smallest.jpg" /> Crescendo, 2020Graphic notation on paper https://movingwitness.com/Ellipsis Wed, 04 May 2022 02:01:58 +0000 emir west https://movingwitness.com/Ellipsis Ellipsis Screening Series, 2019 Curated by Mariana Sanchez and Emir West In the words of its founders, the goal of Ellipsis is to provide “a space in which different contexts and modes of storytelling can build off one another,” with each program “geared towards connecting two languages, either aesthetic or literal,” invigorating both the cinema and the gallery with perspectives that look to horizons beyond the Western canon. – Courtesy of Light Industry MAY 04 / ELLIPSIS: REFRACTIONS Ellipsis, a new moving image series that takes place every four months, debuts today at Spectacle Theater with Refractions, a selection of four short films that reinvigorate the language of landscape. Curated by Mariana Sanchez Bueno and Emir West, the series aims to connect moving image works across languages, either aesthetic or literal, and shift conversations of art-house cinema beyond the Western canon. Additional screenings this month include an evening at Light Industry and the Center for Performance Research. Each of the artists in Refractions uses specific technicalities of their media to alter the possibilities of how the image is seen on screen and the ways it is experienced within the cinematic space. In El Laberinto’s montage of hand-held footage and clips of the American soap opera Dynasty, Laura Huertas Millan mediates on the insolvency of dreams built on smoke and mirrors. Following a man through the southern jungle of Colombia to the ruins of drug trafficker Evaristo Porras’ palace, the man narrates his experiences working for Porras as viewers are left to connect what little they can from the house’s scattered underpinnings. By pairing 16mm with reused television footage, Huertas Millan shifts the immediate feeling of nostalgia often produced by witnessing film to one of distance and curiosity. A similar feeling returns with Nuotama Bodomo’s short film Boneshaker. Both works could operate on different planes, yet there is a delicate balance between the pointed textual offerings of El Laberinto and Bodomo’s open-endedness that stresses a similar longing for closure. Boneshaker follows a West African family as they make their way through the American south to the church they hope will heal their problem child. Approaching the church her parents hope will heal all wounds, the young girl breaks free again and again to run unafraid into the woods surrounding them. With little dialogue, Boneshaker unearths the nuances of family, the space that brings them together and the space that keeps them apart. Turning from narrative to myth, the immersive sonic experience of Basma Alsharif’s DEEP SLEEP draws on the fallacies of monument and ruin as opposite. Viewers are immediately implicated in an experience of what Alsharif coins “bi-locating,” using binaural resonances to shift one’s geographic location. Touring the monuments of Malta and Greece, Alsharif uses the sonic space from Gaza–a home Alsharif cannot access–to render the affinities between ancient civilizations not only seen but felt. Through the physical feeling of Alsharif’s work, the act of sighting can embody the act of being within “ the site.” Ojos Para Mis Enemigos uses the transformation of site more literally, as a point for the reclamation of culture, religion, and nature. Beatriz Santiago Muñoz studies the physical leftovers of a US-controlled military site in Puerto Rico, a man-made structure and product of US colonialism, that are overgrown with plants and animals that now claim homes there. This becomes a site of ritual in which santero and activist Pedro Ortiz may collect flowers for spiritual offerings. Refractions brings these works together to highlight the importance of geography not only as a structure for understanding one’s place in the world, but for questioning its boundaries and altering its forms through sound and image. MAY 10 / ELLIPSIS: ECHOES Ellipsis: Echoes is a double-bill of short films built around the locus of cultural resonance through labor. Curated by Mariana Sanchez Bueno and Emir West, the series aims to connect moving image works across languages, either aesthetic or literal, and shift conversations of art-house cinema beyond the Western canon. In the absence of dialogue, both of these films emphasize a choreography around labor and labor histories. As a result, intimacy takes a central role in each film’s world. Kevin Jerome Everson’s Sound That follows employees of the Cleveland Water Department on the hunt for leaks in the infrastructure in Cuyahoga County. Moving through the city, the techniques for sourcing these leaks evolve into a sonic ritual and a form of communication between laborers and the city. O Peixe (The Fish), a short film and installation work by Jonathas de Andrade, focuses on fishermen from a village on the northeast coast of Brazil as they enact a ritual of embracing the fish that they have caught. The affectionate gesture that accompanies the passage of death is a testament to a relationship between species that is imbued with strength, violence and domination. This film was made with a group of fishermen of Piaçabuçu and Coruripe, by the river São Francisco and the sea, Northeast of Brazil. Ellipsis’ curators would like to thank Center for Performance Research, Trilobite-Arts DAC Picture Palace Pictures, Kevin Jerome Everson, and Jonathas de Andrade for their generosity and contribution to our program. Image credit and by-line courtesy of the artists’ studios. MAY 15 / ELLIPSIS: Jorge Jácome's Flores + Basma Alsharif's Ouroboros(TEXT COURTESY OF LIGHT INDUSTRY) Light Industry hosts an evening with Ellipsis, a new quarterly screening series taking place in venues across New York City, organized by Mariana Sánchez Bueno and Ehm West. In the words of its founders, the goal of Ellipsis is to provide “a space in which different contexts and modes of storytelling can build off one another,” with each program “geared towards connecting two languages, either aesthetic or literal,” invigorating both the cinema and the gallery with perspectives that look to horizons beyond the Western canon. Flores, Jorge Jácome, 2017, digital projection, 26 mins A hypnagogic narrative rooted in both the speculations of science fiction and the investigative operations of documentary, Flores imagines an Azores that has become overrun with hydrangeas, a species already abundant in the region whose presence, in Jácome’s telling, has proliferated to the point of forcing all human inhabitants to emigrate to the Portuguese mainland. The story unfolds through the wanderings of a pair of soldiers who remain stationed on the islands, where they patrol a homeland now transformed into a flowery wilderness. Their military figures set against a tinted, lavender-blue landscape, the two young men become paradoxical emblems of tenderness and resilience, nostalgia and resignation. Ouroboros, Basma Alsharif, 2017, digital projection, 74 mins “An homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is both end and beginning: death as regeneration. An experimental narrative film that turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak, Ouroboros asks what it means to be human when humanity has failed. Taking the form of a love story, the film’s central character is Diego Marcon, a man who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain only to experience it, again and again. In the course of a single day, his travel fuses together Native American territories, the ancient Italian city of Matera, a castle in Brittany, and the ruins of the Gaza Strip into one single landscape.” - BA https://movingwitness.com/CV Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:06:33 +0000 emir west https://movingwitness.com/CV CV EDUCATION &nbsp;&nbsp; 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; MAUMAUS INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM Lisbon, Portugal 2018 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; BARD COLLEGE Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, B.A. in Art History&nbsp; RESIDENCIES + WORKSHOPS 2022 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SILVER SUN FOUNDATION | Woodstock, NY | Artist in Residence 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; EUREKA RESIDENCY | Kingston, NY | Artist in Residence 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SIGHTSEEING FOR COMPOSITION: SCORING VISUALS + MOVING IMAGE | Brooklyn, NY | Workshop Facilitator GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, PERFORMANCES 2022 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 24 HOUR LIVESTREAM @ Automata LA | Group Screening | Los Angeles, CA | Participating Artist 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; KNOCK OFF @ On Canal Gallery | Group Exhibition | New York, NY | Participating Artist 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PANGEA @ H0L0 | Group Performance | Brooklyn, NY | Participating Artist + Organizer 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SUMMER SAPLINS @ The Living Gallery&nbsp; | Group Exhibition | Brooklyn, NY | Participating Artist 2018 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE OUTER SPACE WITHIN US @ Allouche Gallery | Group Exhibition | New York, NY | Participating Artist 2018 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; HARMONIC DISCOURSE/RICHARD KENNEDY | Sound + Movement Performance | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | Performer 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; MAKING SPEECHES ELSEWHERE | Video Compilation | Participating Artist CURATORIAL 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Cave Show, Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale, NY | Curator 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SEEING SOUND | Independent Curators International (ICI) Touring Exhibition | Exhibition Coordinator 2019-20 &nbsp;SOUNDINGS: AN EXHIBITION IN FIVE PARTS | ICI Touring Exhibition | Exhibition Coordinator 2019-20 &nbsp;NEVER SPOKEN AGAIN | ICI Touring Exhibition | Exhibition Coordinator 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ELLIPSIS | Film Program | Brooklyn, NY | Founder + Curator 2017-18 &nbsp;ALTERNATIVE SYNTAX | Film Program | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | Founder + Curator 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NEW MEDIA INTIMACIES | ICI Public Programs | New York, NY | Curator 2018 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; JULIUS EASTMAN’S SYMPHONY No. II RESTORED | Music Performance | New York, NY | Coordinator 2018 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; TANGLED UP AND MORE: KALUP LINZY | Music Performance | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | Curator 2017 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; HANNAH BLACK | Artist Talk | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | Coordinator 2017 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;JAMES KIENITZ WILKINS | Artist Talk + Screening | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | Coordinator 2017 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; COUPLES THERAPY: MY RELATIONSHIP TO BLACKNESS | Performance | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | Coordinator PUBLISHED WRITING2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; CORRIENT.ES | “Black Beach/Horse/Camp/The Dead/Forces” by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz”2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; VoCA BLOG | “Video/Art: The First Fifty Years: An Evening with Barbara London”2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; BOMB MAGAZINE | “A Dream Deferred: Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston”2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SCREENSLATE DAILY | “Ellipsis | Refractions” FILM + SOUND PRODUCTION2022&nbsp; &nbsp;Powwow People dir. Sky Hopinka |&nbsp; ≤ Associate Producer | 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; What is Perverse is Liquid dir. A.K. Burns |&nbsp;Assistant Camera 2022 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; PVC BATHWATER (comp. Bassel Al Rahim) | Video Producer + Editor 2022 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; POW WOW PEOPLE (dir. Sky Hopinka) | Associate Producer 2022 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; NIGHTMARE/DREAM (dir. Martine Syms) | Editor + Sound Designer 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; THE NON HERO (dir. Martine Syms) | Editor + Sound Designer 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LOVESTOPS (dir. Jordan Strafer) | Assistant Director 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE AFRICAN DESPERATE (dir. Martine Syms) | Art Department Coordinator 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; MAŁNI - TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE Vinyl Soundtrack | Mixing Engineer 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; MAŁNI - TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (dir. Sky Hopinka) | Associate Producer 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE INHERITANCE (dir. Ephraim Asili) | Production Assistant 2019 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;SALACIA + MARY OF ILL FAME (dir. by Tourmaline) | Art Department Coordinator 2018 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; TO MY MOTHER (dir. Mariana Sanchez Bueno) | Composer AWARDS AND GRANTS&nbsp; 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; E.M.P.A.C. RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT GRANT | Troy, NY 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FCA COVID-19 BRIDGE FUND | New York, NY 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; HEART HUDSON AWARD | Hudson, NY2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FREE TO CREATE GRANT | Catskill, NY 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; JEAN FRENCH RESEARCH AWARD | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; COMMUNITY ACTION AWARD | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; COMMUNITY ACTION AWARD | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FUND FOR VISUAL LEARNING | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY