Catalog Launch and Culminating Event “Found Footage: Bridging Past and Future”organized by Mari Claudia García & Carson Parish

Wednesday, July 24, 6:30-8:30 PM

Join us for the launch of the 2024 SHIFT Exhibition Catalog alongside public programming collaboratively organized by SHIFT Residents Mari Claudia García and Carson Parish.

Video, the democratic medium of the century, is often employed by artists as a tool to capture moments of raw emotion and honesty in the face of often unseen and obscured power. Thousands upon thousands of hours of video exist in archives and libraries, and the sheer mass of this catalog is largely unimaginable. So how does an artist transform into a researcher and begin to excise, reformat, and recontextualize fragments of the past, so that they may better inform the future world in which we live?

In this program, we will screen two short films that explore the realm of found footage. Following the screenings, there will be a brief discussion on how these materials relate to each other and to broader themes within the context of found footage filmmaking. 

In person at EFA Project Space
323 W 39th St, New York, NY 10018
Free and open to the public.