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Monday July 9, 7:30pm\u2028<\/span>
\nYES<\/em>: Rachael Guma \/ Grace Sloan\u2028<\/strong><\/span>
\nArtists in person!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Still from “For Prince (Let’s Go Crazy)” by Grace Sloan, 2018, 16mm film, sound, 5 minutes – Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

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Microscope is very pleased to present a screening night of Super 8mm and 16mm films by Rachael Guma and Grace Sloan as part of our emerging artists series\u00a0YES<\/em>, including\u00a0several premieres, works in progress, and fresh-from-the-lab film prints by the two New York-based artists.<\/span><\/p>\n

A champion of small gauge film and sound experimentation, Rachael Guma makes works including stop motion animations, diaristic and personal observations, experimental narratives, and film performances where the visuals and\u00a0sound are expanded\u00a0through the use of mirrors, filters, and other objects and hybrid tools\/instruments she has devised. Themes of the works in the program \u2014\u00a0which features three never-before-seen works\u00a0\u201cWalosi (The Frog)\u201d, a shadow animation, and the Super 8mm films \u201cWhiplash\u201d and \u201cHidden Planet\u201d \u2014 include the poetry of William Blake, ritual and dance, and celestial bodies and\u00a0occurrences. <\/span><\/p>\n

Grace Sloan comments on popular culture through the use of a variety of found films, ranging from holiday children\u2019s\u00a0programs to adult films, to create compositions that\u00a0sabotage the original purpose or meaning. Sloan heightens the sense of transience of the film medium by often choosing as her subjects people and places that no longer exist. The title of her first film\u00a0\u201cTease” \u2014 a hand-processed found footage film treated with\u00a0bleach, dye, and nail polish to obscure the underlying imagery \u2014\u00a0may describe by extension all of her works to date in that they create a tension between showing and not showing, whether through stuttering of the frame, painting and scratching on film, or other manipulations. The program marks the debut of her 2018 Super 8mm film \u201cCarol Wright Catalog\u201d, a hand processed and animated\/flicker film of the pages of the direct mail marketing catalog “Carol Wright”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both Guma and Sloan will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening.<\/span><\/p>\n

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General admission $8<\/span><\/em>
\nMembers or students w\/ ID $6<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

ADVANCE TICKETS<\/a><\/div>\n

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\nRachael Guma<\/strong>\u00a0is a filmmaker and sound artist in Brooklyn, New York. Since graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute, her films have screened at the San Francisco Cinematheque, RX Gallery, Mono No Aware, Northern Flickers, UnionDocs, AXWFF, Black Maria, Echo Park Film Center and Microscope Gallery\u00a0where she was invited to present her first solo screening in 2013. In 2016-2017, Rachael participated in\u00a0Dreamlands: Expanded, a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope Gallery in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the exhibition\u00a0\u201cDreamlands: Immersive Cinema & Art, 1905-2016\u201d. In this series, she provided live sound and additional visual support for a re-staging of Kurt Schwerdtfeger’s 1922\u00a0\u201cReflektorische Farblichtspiele\u201d (Reflecting Color-Light Play),\u00a0premiered a film, light, and sound composition\u00a0REDNOWWONDER,\u00a0and performed as part of\u00a0The Owl Flies at Twilight\u00a0with Optipus. As a member of\u00a0Optipus Film Collective, she has performed live foley and record manipulations\u00a0at the Kitchen, Participant Gallery, 2011 Index \u00a0Festival, Roulette, the Museum of Art and Design (MAD), Morbid Anatomy Museum, Transient Visions, and Unseen Cinema. Guma plays theremin for the sound collective,\u00a0Underworld Oscillator Corporation, most recently performing\u00a0a live score for the silent film version of\u00a0The Phantom of the Opera (1925). She is also a founding member of the liquid light projection group,\u00a0A Clockface Orange. Her teaching experience includes introducing avant-garde film to at-risk teens at Reel Works, artist visits at UC Boulder, Brooklyn College, Pratt Institute and Sarah Lawrence, animation, sound for film and theremin workshops at the Children’s Museum of the Arts, Professional Development workshops for Magic Box Productions, and Super 8mm workshops for Mono No Aware.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace Sloan\u00a0<\/strong>is a New York based experimental filmmaker, designer, and cultural critic. She works with found footage, direct animation, and hand processes to subvert narratives and to highlight film\u2019s ephemerality. Her work has screened at the Telluride Film Festival, Artists Television Access in San Francisco, and Anthology Film Archives. She received a BA from San Francisco State University, and an MA from the New School for Social Research.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Still from “Walosi (The Frog)” by Rachael Guma, 2018, 16mm film, live sound, 4 minutes – Image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

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\nMicroscope Gallery Event Series 2018 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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