“A WAY OUT”
A Lo-Fi Film/Video Outdoor-Backyard Screening
Programmed by josh brainin
SCREENING WORKS BY:
OSADOLOR (dallas + new york city)
JELLYSTONE ROBINSON (chicago)
JALEN ELK (detroit)
TAYLOR WREN (chicago)
JOSH BRAININ (chicago + new york city)
MARJORIE MATAMOROS (tegucigalpa)
MONET-CHANEL KHANYAHL(chicago)
PERFORMANCE BY:
IAN KANG (chicago)
This is not a showcase of polish or perfection. This is a gathering of distortion and rupture. “A WAY OUT” is a DIY screening of Lo-Fi films made by artists who aim to reach beyond the limits of the visible, the legible, and the normative—toward the glitch, the blur, the dream. Shot on DV cams, phones, old formats, these films embrace a visual noise that goes against the high-definition gaze—a gaze that seeks to order, categorize and control (know). As David Lynch reminds us, in the dark corners of the Lo-Fi image, the mind begins to dream. These shadows, this grain, open space for the unknown.
The unknown is necessary. As Paul B. Preciado writes, heterosexuality is not a personal identity but a political regime-one that reduces our psychic and bodily life to reproduction, control, compliance. These films pivot from that regime by becoming unreadable, uncontainable, outside. As Legacy Russell says, “we, the viral glitch,” push the machine to failure. We celebrate glitch not as error, but as strategy.
These films are encrypted bodies: they enact breakdown as breakthrough, collapse as possibility. This is cinema as contamination and portal. Not a mirror, not representation-but a virus in the code. A blooming in the wreck. We invite you to sit with the noise. To bear witness to these bodies in motion, in mutation. To dream toward escape. To find a way out.
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Tags: "A WAY OUT", Chicago, IAN KAN, JALEN ELK, JELLYSTONE ROBINSON, Josh Brainin, Marjorie Matamoros, MONET-CHANEL KHANYAHL, OSADOLOR, TAYLOR WREN
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