This is the first of 3 consecutive Thursday nights of films by Los Angeles artist Stanya Kahn.

Sliding scale tickets

Thursday July 23rd at 8pm – Stand in the Stream (2011-2017)

Stand in the Stream defies categorization—an ambient digital feature about life, death, the inextricability of the personal from the political, the primacy of the image and the interplay of scale in human struggle, from the intimacy of the home to the global streets, the handheld camera to the drone. Shot over the course of six years, Stand in the Stream captures historic shifts in popular uprisings and the nascent use of the internet to organize and document. Made during a period in which massive and unprecedented protest movements rose across the globe between 2010 and 2017—Tunisia, Egypt, Brazil, Turkey, the U.S.—the film is also follows the intimate arc of deterioration and death of the artist’s activist/worker mother, alongside personal documentation of daily life amidst swiftly changing political and digital landscapes. Live-streams screen-recorded in real-time are intercut with footage Kahn shot on multiple camera formats, as an embodied means to reframe our screen-saturated, contemporary perspectives without using found footage. With a dense and visceral sound score, Stand in the Stream moves from the home to the wild, from online chat rooms to the streets. From the birth of a child to the death of a mother, from Tahrir Square to Standing Rock and Trump’s (first) inauguration, Stand in the Stream is an urgent contemporary ode and a story for the people.

Thursday July 30th at 8pm – Dont Go Back to Sleep

Thursday August 6th at 8pm –

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