[Frameworks] Final Day: Talena Sanders | Katie Vida (online screening) until 10:30pm ET tonight

[LBurchill]

Watch here: https://tinyurl.com/y8z8afmf

Microscope presents another edition of its emerging artist series Yes with
a pair of works by Talena Sanders and Katie video. The two medium-length
video works in the program are both devoted to deeply influential,
pioneering, and boundary-pushing women artists who lived and died around
the same time, at the turn of the twentieth century. These two
controversial figures, Mary MacLane and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven,
advocated for sexual freedom, gender equality, women’s empowerment, and
generally the need to live their lives by their own terms, which they did
in uncompromising fashions still inspiring today.

Talena Sanders’ 2018 film “Between my flesh and the world’s fingers” is
centered around queer writer, film pioneer and provocateur Mary MacLane,
also known as the “Wild Woman of Butte.” Built upon the diaries penned by
MacLane between 1902 and 1917 — she achieved literary fame through her
first “I Await the Devil’s Coming” written when she was only nineteen — as
well as her work on the autobiographical silent movie “Men Who Have Made
Love to Me” (1917), Sanders’ film represents “the act of a woman telling
her own story through that of another woman.”

Katie Vida’s “Shelly” (2019) is a 45-minute video entirely made on Snapchat
by the artist — whose facial features are augmented through the app’s
filters — at once personal diary and song to a trailblazing artist who was
written out of history, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Vida’s fictional
character Shelly, just as von Freytag-Loringhoven moves from Sparta,
Kentucky to New York, only with a lapse of 100 years. The updated version
of the relocation finds Shelly settling in a pricey Airbnb apartment in
Bushwick, Brooklyn. Kicking off with the contagious excitement of an artist
taking chances in the big apple, “Shelly” gradually turns somber, and
pervaded with a sentiment of marginality and loneliness, both human and
artistic.

*More info and watch link*: https://tinyurl.com/y8z8afmf
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