Intertextuality: Performance/Subjectivity in Experimental Shorts
In dialogue with Hammer Projects: Ja’Tovia Gary, which features THE GIVERNY SUITE, this screening of short films situates Gary’s work in the context of Black women’s experimental films across a 25-year period. By gathering video, photos, sound clips, and printed media, these filmmakers give an account of what gendered blackness feels like in North America and the UK. Artist and scholar Ayanna Dozier joins Gary for a post-screening discussion and Q+A.Film programIntro Cultural Skit-Zo-Frenia, Jamika Ajalon (1993, 10 min.)Sapphire and the Slave Girl, Leah Gilliam (1995, 20 min.)Be Sarah, Zoë Charlton (2009, 2 min.)Imitation, Zoë Charlton (2011, 3 min.)An Excavation of Us, Shirley Bruno (2017, 10 min.)Fucked Like a Star, Stefani Saintonge (2018, 8 min.)Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), Ja’Tovia Gary (2017, 6 min.)
This event is presented by the Hammer Museum at UCLA.
Event Date: Wednesday, Mar. 11, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum
Price: Free
The Hammer is located at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire exit.
Parking is available under the museum.
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