This summer, the National Museum of the Aftermath is presenting a four night film screening series. Join us for the first screening of the season, featuring Cauleen Smith’s Songs for Earth and Folk (2013) and Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames (1983).
Songs for Earth and Folk
11m
Made in 2013, this short by Cauleen Smith is composed entirely of 16 mm and Super 8 found footage and is structured like a blues song, with a live-improvised electro-organic soundtrack created by Chicago-based band the Eternals. Earth sings a melancholic tale of disappointment. Folk fail to listen until it’s too late. We End.
Born in Flames
80m
A blistering rallying cry issued loud, clear, and unapologetically queer, Lizzie Borden’s explosive postpunk provocation is a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a revolution that supposedly transformed the country into a democratic socialist utopia. In reality, racism, sexism, and economic inequality are as virulent as ever, and a band of radicals—led by Black, lesbian, and working-class women—join forces to fight back. Told through a furiously fractured, kinetically edited flurry of television news broadcasts, pirate radio transmissions, agitprop, and protests shot guerrilla-style on the streets of New York City, Born in Flames is a shock wave of feminist futurism that’s both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it.
Join us for the upcoming screenings in the series:
June 23, 6-8pm: Dakota Higgins’ The Four Elements of Cinema (Excerpt: Fire & Water) + Charlotte Zhang’s TYCOON
July 14, 6-8pm: Reginald Alan Hudlin’s Space Traders + William Greaves’ Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
