[Frameworks] Tonight Jonas Mekas "Tapes" live online conversation, 7:30pm ET

[LBurchill]

Just a reminder that the conversation component of Microscope Gallery's
online screening event "Jonas Mekas: Tapes" is this evening at 7:30PM ET.

Panelists: Lukas Brasiskis, Elle Burchill, Christoph Gnaedig, Jeanne
Liottoa, and Sebastian Mekas
A Q&A with the audience follows via live chat

Tickets are valid for both the screening and the conversation and can be
found at this link: *https://tinyurl.com/y4dak7nr
<https://tinyurl.com/y4dak7nr>*

The screening program will remain watchable through Thursday 10:30pm ET.

More info: www.microscopegallery.com

*Lukas Brasiskis* is a film and media researcher and curator, currently a
PhD candidate at New York University in the Department of Cinema Studies
and an adjunct professor at NYU and CUNY/Brooklyn College. In his works
Brasiskis combines backgrounds coming from the studies of film and media,
art history, and philosophy. His interests include eco-media (with an
emphasis on limits and potentialities of mediation of the the material and
the elemental in regard to different political discourses and cultural
understandings), politics and aesthetics of the world cinema, and study of
intersections between moving image cultures and contemporary art world.
Brasiskis’ texts have been published in both academic and non-academic
media and he has curated and programmed a number of screenings. The list
includes a video art program *Environmental Memories in East-Central
European Art (Alternative Film/Video Festival. Belgrade, Serbia), James
Benning’s film program Landscape to be Experienced and to be Read: Time,
Ecology, Politics (CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania), a film program Mermaid with
The Movie Camera (Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY), a program of
experimental films Human, Material, Machine (together with Leo Goldsmith,
CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania), a screening and a discussion event Baltic Poetic
Documentary as Ethnographic Cinema (NYU, NY), a film program Welcome to the
Anthropocene (CCAMP, Lithuania), a retrospective of films by Nathaniel
Dorsky (CAC, Vilnius), among others.*

*Christoph Gnaedig*, b. 1983, in Cottbus, Germany; film and media
researcher, media artist, freelance curator and writer. Graduated from
University of Vienna, Austria with a degree in Cinema Studies and Film
Theory in 2015. Teaching and lecturing activities since 2015, among others
at University of Vienna and University of Applied Arts Vienna. From 2016 to
2018 he studied documentary film with Thomas Heise and since 2018 in the
class "expanded cinema" with video artist Clemens von Wedemeyer at Academy
of Fine Arts Leipzig. Gnaedig has been a visiting researcher in Jerusalem
and in New York. He has been Involved in various publications, most
recently: “WhatBreaksThePattern," Kunsthalle Wien 2019 and"Jonas Mekas New
York Diaries 1952-1969 - I Seem To Live," Spector Books 2020.


*Jeanne Liotta* is an artist working in film and other mediums with
thematics often located at the intersection of art, science, natural
philosophy, and ephemerality. Her films and works have screened and
exhibited extensively in the US and internationally including among many
others at the Whitney Museum of American Art (including the Whitney
Biennial 2006); The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio;
Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France, and at the Rotterdam International
Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where she won the Tiger Award
for her 16mm film “Observando El Cielo.”

She has also maintained ongoing research, programming and lecturing on The
Joseph Cornell Film Collection at Anthology Film Archives, and has written
a monograph on Cornell’s films published by The San Francisco Cinematheque
for the traveling exhibition “Navigating the Imagination.” She presently
directs the MFA in Arts Practices/Film at The University of Colorado
Boulder, where she is also an Associate Professor in Film Studies.
Additionally, she is on the Film/Video faculty at the Bard MFA Program.
Jeanne Liotta lives and works between New York and Boulder, Colorado.


*Sebastian Mekas *is the son of Jonas Mekas Archive, Director of the Jonas
Mekas Studio, and President of the Board of Trustees at Anthology Film
Archives.


*Elle Burchill* is an artist / curator and co- founder / co-director of
Microscope Gallery in New York. She worked with Jonas Mekas as his video
editor from 2007 - 2019.

*Andrea Monti *an artist/curator and co-founder / co-director of Microscope
Gallery in New York. He was previously a founder of and curator for Lucca
Film Festival in Lucca Italy. He has curated various exhibitions and
screenings of the works of Jonas Mekas in both capacities.
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