About this Event
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, November 10 at 7pm for Mutations, the fifth and closing program of the five-part series let’s all be lichen presented by Flaherty NYC and programmed by asinnajaq.
Program
Starting with the same inspiration, building with a vastly different set of tools.
Svetlana Romanova and Chelsea Tuggle, Тарыҥ (The Season of Dying Water)
2022, 62 minutes
Images of Siberia are often limited to exoticized portraits of rural communities living in harsh conditions, its residents often cast as provincial wanderers stuck in a different time. Aiming to visually describe a more grounded contemporary reality, The Season of Dying Water argues that life in and around Yakutsk is more complicated. Inspired by Chris Marker’s 1957 travelogue film Lettre de Sibérie, Тарыҥ offers an update 65 years later.
Chris Marker, Lettre de Sibérie (Letter From Siberia)
1957, 92 minutes
This early feature from Chris Marker is a key touchstone in the evolution of his distinctive essayistic style, in which he combines footage shot in the barren reaches of Siberia with his typically idiosyncratic musings. Animated mammoths, a humorous comparison of communist and capitalist values, and even a “commercial” for reindeer all feature in this alternately witty and philosophical travelogue that reveals as much about the history and culture of its subject as it does about the inner workings of its maker’s mind.
Total running time: 154 minutes
let’s all be lichen is an Inukjuamiut’s response to 100 years of our namesake’s seminal film. Featuring the works of largely circumpolar (Inuk, Sámi, Evenk and Sakha) filmmakers, the series weaves together works by artists who have harnessed their own power and distinct voice through the moving image. The series shimmers with personal histories, the spiritual anthropocene, questions of agency, memory, and urbanization, as well as a fierce and love-filled reclaiming of the arctic imaginary. Read more on the series .
Svetlana Romanova was born in Yakutsk, Russia and studied visual arts in Los Angeles. She has received her BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, and MFA from California Institute of the Arts. From 2009 to 2014, she studied, lived, and worked in arts education in California. After returning to Siberia in 2015, she started working on several film projects about her hometown and regions around it. Her video practice is an investigation of two local indigenous groups that she belongs to—Sakha and Even.
Chelsea Tuggle is a filmmaker and artist living in Los Angeles.
Chris Marker (1921-2012) was a writer, photographer, filmmaker, multi-media artist, and world traveller, whose cinematic essays have been challenging audiences for more than half a century with their complex queries about time, memory, and the nature of truth. A self-effacing figure who was rarely interviewed and even more rarely photographed (when asked for a picture of himself, he usually offered a photograph of a cat instead), Marker is considered by many critics as one of the most important directors in the world. His prolific output as a filmmaker included such landmarks as Lettre de Sibérie (1957), La Jetée (1962), Le Joli Mai (1963), Sans Soliel (1983) and Level Five (1997). ((New Wave Film))
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to [email protected]. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom.
For more information, contact [email protected].
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
e-flux, 172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, United States
USD 5.00 to USD 8.00
