TAM Cinema is a moving image series screened at Tacoma Art Museum. Films are conceptually tied to current TAM exhibitions and features guest curators.
Elements: Material and Process in the Moving Image
February 26- May 21, 2026
Curated by David Dinnell and Jay Kuehner
Elements: Material and Process in the Moving Image is a six-part film series, presenting twenty-five works from contemporary artists, and conceived in dialogue with the exhibition HAUNTED.
Focusing on matter that spans both natural and artificial realms – and its transformation through manual, mechanical, and organic processes – the works in this series undertake an accounting of the lived world. Taken in context with the TAM exhibition, Haunted, these selected works collectively consider how the experiential is framed through empirical and intuitive means, with moving images acting as witness, catalyst, surrogate, and archive. Manifest in extractive and generative forms, destructive and productive acts, durable to ephemeral ends, the processual – as cinematic event – reveals latent histories in granular form but of ever-increasing consequence. Featuring twenty-five works that scale from deeply personal to broadly historical, from geologic to anthropogenic; fusing the merely observational to the sheerly operational image.
With works by:
Kevin Jerome Everson · Allison Cekala · Maeve Brennan · Yto Barrada · Lynne Siefert · Julia Parks & Heather Andrews · Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela · Sasha Pirker · Yuri Ancarani · Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell · Laura Kraning · Alex Johnston · Beatriz Santiago Munoz · Luke Fowler · A.S.M. Kobayashi · Walid Raad · Anthony McCall · Yuyan Wang · Ali Cherri · Liu Yujia · Claudia Claremi · John Smith · Erica Sheu · James N. Kienitz Wilkins
Screenings
February 26, 2026 | 6 pm | at Tacoma Art Museum
Excavations (72 min, 2012-2022)
With works by Kevin Jerome Everson, Allison Cekala, Maeve Brennan , and Yto Barrada
March 19, 2026 | 7 pm | at SIFF Film Center, Seattle (free for TAM members)
Generations (67 min, 2020)
A film by Lynne Siefert
March 26, 2026 | 6 pm | at Tacoma Art Museum
The Way Things Go (08 min, 2012-2024)
With works by Julia Parks & Heather Andrews, Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela, Sasha Pirker, Yuri Ancarani, Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell, and Laura Kraning
April 23, 2026 | 6pm | at Tacoma Art Museum
Evidence of the Evidence (78 min, 1999-2024)
With works by Alex Johnston, Beatriz Santiago Munoz, Luke Fowler, A.S.M. Kobayashi, and Walid Raad
May 1, 2026 | time and location tba
Anthony McCall: Line Describing a Cone + Conical Solid (1973)
May 21, 2026 | 6pm | at Tacoma Art Museum
The Nature of Things (93 min, 2015-2025)
With works by Yuyan Wang , Ali Cherri, Liu Yujia, Claudia Claremi, John Smith, Erica Sheu, and James N. Kienitz Wilkins
TAM Cinema is a free event, but donations are welcome.