Filament: TAM Cinema
TAM’s Event Space
Free or by donation
Filament is a moving image series at TAM conceived in dialogue with the exhibition Soft Power – a cinematic response to and reflection on the multivalent themes, both latent and tangible, in the textile-based artwork.
Saturday, March 16, 1pm
Warp and Weft
films by Basma Alsharif, Andrew Kim, Laura Huertas Millán, Abraham Ravett, and Sky Hopinka
2007-2021, digital video and 16mm film, TRT 75 min
A portrait of matriarchal weavers in Mexico whose traditional techniques are intertwined with their own sense of freedom; a meditation on impermanence and mortality from within a taxidermist’s studio; a 50 year old audio recording of a Pechanga language lesson between an artist’s grandmother and mother; a failed attempt at a love story told through images, letters and songs – these five artists’ films explore how material objects can be carriers of memory, familial history, ancestral traditions and how individuals locate themselves within collective experiences. More…
Sunday, April 14, 1pm
God Bless the Child
by Christopher Harris
live multimedia presentation, approx 75 min
A multi-media presentation centered around an upcoming autobiographical film and art project which draws directly from Christopher Harris’ infancy and experience as a foster child. Combining photos, records, and other materials from his personal archives with 16mm film footage he recently shot in Senegal, Harris situates “the carcerality of the social welfare state and child services in relation to Black childhood in the US” within the broader context of the transatlantic slave trade and the French Catholic Church’s colonization of West Africa and the Americas. His hometown of St. Louis, MO and Saint-Louis, Senegal are presented as fraternal colonized twin cities (description courtesy Microscope Gallery). More…
Thursday, May 23, 6pm
Quality Control
by Kevin Jerome Everson
US, 2011, 71 minutes, 16mm transferred to digital, b/w
Quality Control consists of a series of 16mm b/w single
take shots of the fine folks of Alabama producing a
superior product. Filmed in a dry cleaners in Pritchard,
Alabama, Quality Control exhibits the acts as well the
conditions around labor. The film premiered at the
International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2011
and was featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2012. More…