Screening of "history as hypnosis" in Los Angeles Festival of Movies
Alison Nguyen’s masterpiece “history as hypnosis” will be presented at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies on 7 April 2024, with a panel discussion following the screening, featuring artists Alison Nguyen, Ren Ebel, Mike Stoltz and writer Emma Kemp.
Now Instant and the Los Angeles Festival of Movies present “PART-TIME”, a collection of six new moving image works drawn from the worlds of fine art, experimental film, and narrative cinema that impel the structural capacities of the form.
About "history as hypnosis" --
"A speculative road film that unfolds through cultural memory of the US war in Vietnam, the work follows three women, recently reprogrammed by an artificial intelligence that has wiped all traces of their previous lives, as they journey through an uncanny desert landscape to a nearby metropolis. In Nguyen’s hands, these figures without memory or history become a cinematic use case for themes of alienation, assimilation, and refusal. Freely combining genre, fact, and fiction, the film draws on its Southern California locations’ postmodern glass facades, mimetic architecture, and roadside infrastructure—markers of car culture’s entanglement with American expansionism and cinema history alike—to uncover the more ineffable links between collective consciousness and the Cold War military-industrial complex." - Sophie Cavoulacos, Associate Curator. Dept of Film, MoMA
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