| Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe is an artist whose work in film, video and internet-based projects explores the pleasures of narrative uncertainty. Dogma-resistant, her work asks us to look again at things we might have thought we knew already—inviting the viewer to stay with and even enjoy the experience of incompleteness and imperfection. Neither the frame nor any story are privileged as providers of closure. Their function, rather, is to unwind presumptions and open up spaces for alternate and unfixed points of view. [more] Her most recent video, Peace Is..., was made for the currently-touring program FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR! AGAIN! - A COLLECTIVE OUTCRY. Revisiting an idea from the Vietnam era, filmmaker Lynne Sachs put out a call for new work, and several generations of film and video artists, united by their disgust for the war in Iraq, responded. The result was a 75 minute program which includes video works by: Aylon Ben Ami, Kevin Barry, Bosko Blagojevic, Elle Burchill, Jim Costanzo, Bradley Eros, Jeanne Finley and John Muse, Martha Gorzycki, Alfred Guzetti, Barbara Hammer, Ken Jacobs, Douglas Katelus, Lynn Marie Kirby, Les Leveque, Cynthia Madansky, Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, Sherry Millner and Ernie Larsen, Bill Morrison, Martha Rosler, Lynne Sachs, MM Serra, Jeff Silva, Jeffrey Skoller, Mark Street, Grahame Weinbren, Cara Weiner, Lili White, Artemis Willis. The program may be rented or purchased exclusively from the Film-Makers' Cooperative. |
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