Hands on Earth (Tuesday May 14 2024)
Hands on Earth (Tuesday May 14 2024) takes place over a day of collective demonstration in Philadelphia. Shot on 16mm, the film focuses on hands as poetic indices of expression, exertion, and want. The medium of photochemical film marks the alchemy of and in public protest, while departing from typical protest portraiture of the face and the sign in favor of a meditation on the pleasures and pains of the political body. The film invites a feeling-with, while carving space away from the way recording and the journalistic record prioritize virality, speed, and programmatic legibility.
Thank you to Mono No Aware in Brooklyn, NY.
16mm film, 10 minutes
(2024)
Hands on Earth (Tuesday May 14 2024) takes place over a day of collective demonstration in Philadelphia. Shot on 16mm, the film focuses on hands as poetic indices of expression, exertion, and want. The medium of photochemical film marks the alchemy of and in public protest, while departing from typical protest portraiture of the face and the sign in favor of a meditation on the pleasures and pains of the political body. The film invites a feeling-with, while carving space away from the way recording and the journalistic record prioritize virality, speed, and programmatic legibility.
Thank you to Mono No Aware in Brooklyn, NY.
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