[Frameworks] Last Day: Jean Sousa "Where are we going?" online screening

[LBurchill]

Microscope's online screening of early films by Chicago-based filmmaker
Jean Sousa (plus her most recent video work!) is still viewable until
10:30PM ET Tonight!

The program includes eight short films made between 1977 and 1987 culled
from Sousa’s expansive body of work — which also extends to photography and
performance art — as well as her latest video “The Mermaid,” completed this
year.

Sousa’s works, which she describes as revealing “a concern with the
physical properties of the medium, text as a formal device, the question of
female identity as it relates to common gender tropes, and the experimental
possibilities of narrative,” employ various techniques and processes such
as alterations in frame rate, inversion of color, animation, and the use of
modified cameras. Movement is central to her work, especially that of the
human body in space, as recorded by the camera and further deconstructed,
analyzed, and reorganized through cinema.
Chicago-based artist Jean Sousa has exhibited her work nationally and
internationally and is the recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the
Illinois Arts Council and a Regional Artist Fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts. She was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy
in Rome in 2014 and 2017. Awards include a residency at the Virginia Center
for Creative Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland, the Cliff Dwellers
Fellowship for Artist Residency at Ragdale, and a Professional Artist in
Residence at Oxbow in Saugatuck, Michigan. Sousa’s films have been screened
at Anthology Film Archives in New York, the London Filmmakers Cooperative,
Collectif Jeune Cinéma in Paris, the Institute of Contemporary Art in
Boston, the Cinematheque in San Francisco, the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago among other
venues. Her films are in the Canyon Cinema Foundation Collection and were
part of their 50th Anniversary Touring Program. They are also in the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago Film Study Collection and the Collectif
Jeune Cinema in Paris, France. In the fall of 2019 she had a retrospective
of her 16mm films and digital work at Chicago Filmmakers. Sousa has taught
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts in Boston, and MIT Summer Institute for Film, Photography, and
Video at Hampshire College.
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