Film Program: Critical Geography Shorts

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Film Program: Critical Geography Shorts

Thursday, March 28 | 6:30–8 PM

Silver Street Studios, 2000 Edwards Street
Free and open to the public

Presented in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, assistant professor of art at Rice University, and independent curator Michael Robinson, the FotoFest Biennial 2024 film program includes short films, artist videos, and feature-length films that reflect themes explored in the Biennial exhibitions Critical Geography and Ten by Ten: Ten Portfolios from the Meeting Place 2022–23. Held over the course of the Biennial, the program features contemporary cinematic works by directors from around the globe.

Curated and organized by Houston-based independent film curator Michael Robinson, this program includes video and short films by artists and filmmakers whose works examine relationships between disparate global systemic issues and cultural events that are shaping contemporary political and social discourses. Designed as an expanded view of themes explored in the FotoFest Biennial central exhibition, Critical Geography, topics range from the psychological effects of war and displacement to geographical division induced by ecological disaster, political ideology, and/or colonial racial capitalism. The program features films by Pedro Costa, Janah Elise Cox, Christopher Harris, Mona Hatoum, Suneil Sanzgiri, Blake Williams, and Eduardo Williams.

Learn more about the FotoFest Biennial 2024, its exhibitions, and programming at fotofest.org/fotofest-biennial-2024.

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