[Frameworks] Los Angeles Filmforum presents Can You Sense It? Video Art by Bridget Reweti and Tamika Galanis

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Los Angeles Filmforum presents
Can You Sense It?
Video Art by Bridget Reweti and Tamika Galanis
April 25 - May 8, 2021
Are You Still Recording?, by Bridget Reweti

Los Angeles Filmforum presents
Can You Sense It?
The Video Art of Bridget Reweti and Tamika Galanis
April 25 - May 8, 2021

The Video Art of Bridget Reweti runs from April 25 - May 1, 2021
The Video Art of Tamika Galanis runs from May 2 - May 8, 2021.  
A conversation with both artists and curator Jacqui Brown will be on Saturday May 8 at 5 pm PDT/8 pm EDT.
Note that each artist's screening runs for a week, and not the same week.

What are you sensing, around the political and public health disasters and through a year of virtual connections? Can you sense around and through disaster? What does your body feel? Where does your mind take you? Have you had extrasensory experiences lately? Are you connecting to other worlds and your communities beyond screens?

“Can You Sense It?,” programmed by guest curator Jacqui Brown for Los Angeles Filmforum, deeply engages the work of two filmmakers - Bridget Reweti and Tamika Galanis - to pull you through your screens and drop you beyond this global pandemic to connect deeply to what it is that only you can sense.

The works presented exist between the possibilities of film, grounded in land and place and people overlooked, placing nonfiction film in service of embodiment. They sever the connection between image and dialogue, facilitating the transfer of your energy away from your screen to your senses and the vibrations of land, place, and connections.  

Bridget Reweti suffuses the Aotearoan landscape with voices, mythologies, and communality to dispel romantic notions of the “natural world” and close the gap between our natural and lived environments. Tamika Galanis reverses Reweti’s circulation of life to landscape, placing the outdoors in service of archiving Bahamian interiority. Tamika places herself in an unenviable race - capturing what is The Bahamas, as her home, known as “The Ephemeral Islands,” is actually disappearing.

Can you sense it? That for some of us, our worlds have been ending for centuries? Can you sense it? That our work never ended? Can you sense it? Your relationship to the source? If you leverage your senses, these films will snatch you through the screen and set you down in fully formed worlds.

We're presenting two screenings online and a conversation.
Part 1: The Video Art of Bridget Reweti,  from April 25 - May 1, 2021
Part 2: The Video Art of Tamika Galanis,  from May 2 - May 8, 2021.  
A conversation with both artists and curator Jacqui Brown will be on Saturday May 8 at 5 pm PDT/8 pm EDT.

Tickets: All tickets include admission to the conversation on May 8.

Ticketing: Part 1, Bridget Reweti: Sliding Scale, $0 for members, $5 for students, $8, $12, $20 
https://watch.eventive.org/canyousenseit/play/607e48f1b7197c009ca52b45

Part 2, Tamika Galanis: Sliding Scale, $0 for members, $5 for students, $8, $12, $20  https://watch.eventive.org/canyousenseit/play/60802ab25d51ea008c42294e

Both Screenings: Sliding Scale, $0 for members, $5 for students, $8, $12, $20, $30
https://watch.eventive.org/canyousenseit/play/607e48f1b7197c009ca52b45

A Good Sense of Direction, by Bridget Reweti
The Video Art of Bridget Reweti, screening April 25 - May 1
Bridget Reweti (she/her’s) is an artist and curator from Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi in Tauranga Moana, Aotearoa. Her lens-based practice practice explores indigenous landscape perspectives and the intricacy of contemporary Māori realities.  Reweti has held numerous residencies both nationally and internationally and her work is held in both private and public collections, she is the 2020-21 Frances Hodgkins Fellow at Otago University.

Reweti is part of Mata Aho Collective, a collaboration between four Māori women artists who produce large scale textile works, commenting on the complexity of Māori lives. Reweti has a vested interest in making space from governance to operations to audience for Māori to feel safe and brave in the arts. She has curated both solo and group shows throughout Aotearoa and also co-editor of ATE Journal of Māori Art, an annual peer-reviewed journal of Māori Art. Reweti holds a Masters with first class honours in Māori Visual Arts from Toioho ki Āpiti, Massey University and a PgDip in Museum and Heritage Studies from Victoria University of Wellington.

Full details on her films at 
https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/winter-2021/can-you-sense-it-part-1-the-video-art-of-bridget-reweti-new-screening-detail/

Returning the Gaze: I ga’ gee’ you what you lookin’ for! by Tamika Galanis, Screening May 2 - May 8.

The Video Art of Tamika Galanis, screening May 2 - May 8

Tamika Galanis is a documentarian and multimedia visual artist. A Bahamian native, Tamika’s work examines the complexities of living in a place shrouded in tourism’s ideal during the age of climate concerns. Emphasizing the importance of Bahamian cultural identity for cultural preservation, Galanis documents aspects of Bahamian life not curated for tourist consumption to intervene in the historical archive. This work counters the widely held paradisiacal view of the Caribbean, the origins of which arose post-emancipation through a controlled, systematic visual framing and commodification of the tropics.

Galanis's photography-based-practice includes traditional documentary work and new media abstractions of written, oral, and archival histories. Hacking the Narrative is a multimedia project composed of photographs, film, and sculptural objects that shed light on the conditions in which Bahamians live outside of the mythical promise of paradise. Galanis is based in Durham, North Carolina where she earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University.  https://www.tamikagalanis.com/ 

Full Details on her films at
https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/winter-2021/can-you-sense-it-part-2/

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