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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
The videotape MONEY is assembled from downloaded MP4 sequences depicting exchange and currency transfers – whether digital or old school paper variety. This hyper-pecuniary landscape also hosts a cellphone dialogue between two friends overwhelmed by technological determinism and by post-post Fordist economies strained… ⊕
2025, 17:27 minutes, B&W and colour
tapecode 653.21
Monument is an experimental documentary that pairs chemically altered Super 8 footage of the decaying monuments of Presidents Park (Croaker, VA), with original and community-sourced video footage captured on Monument Avenue (Richmond, VA) between 2020 and 2025. Themes of registration and re-calibration, and metaphor and… ⊕
A young woman (my sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma) dances on a subway platform to music only she can hear. As we watch her move through this public space with unselfconscious expression, we hear her thoughts on the vulnerability of dancing in front of others, the poetry of interacting with strangers, and the wonder of… ⊕
This film weaves a collective portrait of five women united by spirituality and poetry, five women who challenge the camera with their words, they don’t know each other personally but the force of their declamatory speaking which is unique to each of their territories brings them together in forming a filmic braiding that… ⊕
2025, 46:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 626.38
In this powerful documentary, Jewish activists, elders, and community members share deeply personal testimonies about their heritage, Zionist upbringing, and awakening to Palestinian suffering. Facing fear, shame, and accusations of betrayal, they choose to act, declaring that the pledge of “Never Again” cannot… ⊕