It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game. Though sport often reinforces dominant values and hierarchies of power, it is also a source of passion, pleasure, identity, and rebellion. Sometimes, play for the sake of play can also be a radical, disruptive force. Explore the utopian potential of sport: a purposeful purposelessness, a community square, an occasion to stunt, a non-zero-sum game. No winners, no losers, no goals?
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Program
C.F. Partoon, Dundee Police Sports, 1921, 6 min. Courtesy Scotland’s Moving Image Archive.
Darius Clark Monroe, South Oxford, 2019, 12:30 min.
Martine Syms, Capricorn, 2019, 2 min.
Gao Mingyan, City Golf, 2008, 4 min. Courtesy the artist, KADIST collection.
Pied La Biche, Refait, 2009, 16 min.
Skip Blumberg, Summer Ski-Jumping, 1980, 5 min.
Claude Jutra, The Devil’s Toy, 1966, 15 min. Courtesy National Film Board of Canada.
Pedro Burns, POV downhill bike run, 2022, 5 min.
Shen Jie (Central News Documentary Film Studio), Qīngqí gūniáng (Light Cavalry Girls), 1980, 9 min. Courtesy the University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections
Program length: 75 min.
Screening on Loop in the Bentson Mediatheque
Wednesday–Sunday, November 6–10
Bonnie Friedman, The Flashettes, 1978, 20 min.
Zhang Qing, 603 Football Field, 2006, 19 min. Courtesy the artist, KADIST collection.
Bios
Astria Suparak’s cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues made accessible through a popular culture lens, such as science-fiction movies, rock music, and sports. Her work as an artist has been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and ArtScience Museum, Singapore. She has curated exhibitions, screenings, and performances for the Liverpool Biennial, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Kitchen, and Expo Chicago, as well as for such unconventional spaces as roller-skating rinks, sports bars, and rock clubs. Based in Oakland, California, Suparak is the winner of the 2022 San Francisco Artadia Award.
Brett Kashmere is a filmmaker, curator, and writer living in Oakland, California. His creative and scholarly practice reframes dominant narratives about sports and illuminates new perspectives and histories. Kashmere’s films and videos have screened at the BFI London Film Festival, Milano Film Festival, Kassel Documentary Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Photography, UnionDocs, CROSSROADS, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. He is executive director of Canyon Cinema Foundation, founding editor of INCITE Journal of Experimental Media, and co-editor of Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! Kashmere holds a PhD in film & digital media from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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