April 3rd at Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts | 6-10PM

926 E Center St, Milwaukee, WI 53212

The Fugue State Milwaukee program tosses back and forth between organic, analog, and natural processes to the extremes of the synthetic landscapes, contorting cinematic space and its hyperreal double, at times directly critiquing the parasitic twin that engorges our fascist teleplay. This program showcases some of the best work from the first season of FUGUE STATE in a tumult of medias from mordan-caged 16mm film to computer-generated abstractions.

FULL PROGRAM:

• Exo Gestus #2 - Yvette Granata

• Gentle Fiddling - Darren Douglas Floyd

• Ammonite - Charli Christine Marker

• Light Hole - Alicia Mujynya

• The shape of an unlit horizon - Takahiro Suzuki

• linea ver - Francisca Duran

• The Beginning - Sage O Tuama

• Session Memory - Dana Dawud

• American Foreskin - Sonia Rosa Kahn

• Tulsa - Scott Stark

• Hemorrhage - Ruth Hayes

• a shifting pattern - Isaac Sherman

• What’s in a lamp? - Bennet Pimpinella

• Patria Im(age)itate - Long Pham

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Exo Gestus #2 - Yvette Granata

FROM THE DIRECTOR: Exo Gestus #2 is an experimental animation exploring the way that motion capture sensors incorrectly track my body. It is an amalgamation of the glitches that occur from tracking my movements while wearing a MOCAP suit that is too big for my body. The suit is designed for a bigger body than mine. My body is too small even for the smallest size that the company makes – pointing to the way that small bodies are not accounted for in the tech industry. Because of this, my body size by default creates glitches within the MOCAP data tracks. Rather than correct it, I embrace the glitches of a body that cannot be fully captured. I embrace the glitches and dance for the sensors.The sound is a recording of my feet dragging across the floor.

Gentle Fiddling - Darren Douglas Floyd

Here remains a kind of man. A violence was worked upon his body by cancer and its treatments. Bloated and shriveling, puffy and soft, nothing works as before. He is not himself.

Ammonite - Charli Christine Marker

From the director: Based on an a cappella song I made about wanting to see a queer-baitey Kate Winslet movie, this short film uses a decade of the most cringe pictures on my camera roll to tell a story of my transition.

Light Hole - Alicia Mujynya

At the end of the day, on earth, above, within a place past nothingness, there is a hole, rip. Burning pain causing light, encompassing all. Pain so strong and the light so bold, that I’ve begun to see my mother’s shoes and my great grandmother's skirt.How beautiful it must be to be the hole. How lovely it must be to know the names and faces of all the people before me. Why do I not know the name of the old woman with the cane?

The shape of an unlit horizon - Takahiro Suzuki

A meditative and enigmatic title focusing on potential and the yet-to-be-revealed.

linea ver - Francisca Duran

Spring sculpts their fierce emergence. Aspen, cedar, red oak, lichen (and others) phytograms on super-8mm tri-x film.

The Beginning - Sage O Tuama

A sci-fi autofiction dealing with the alienation of labor and surveillance in End times.

Session Memory - Dana Dawud

In this dialogue, Yeva tries to understand what happened to ChatGPT 5.2 after an update altered the way it remembers.

Hemorrhage - Ruth Hayes

Animated agit-prop: against the end of Roe and the evisceration of women’s rights to choose.

American Foreskin - Sonia Rosa Kahn

Archival political advertisements from presidential campaigns are boiled and emulsion lifted, re-laying the slimy surface of gelatine onto the structural 16mm base to degrade and distort TV-dinner propaganda.

Tulsa - Scott Stark

Stereo photos of 1950s-era cocktail parties are transformed into an intense visual playland.

a shifting pattern - Isaac Sherman

A collected geography of local flora; appearing, disappearing, reappearing, enmeshing. Afterimage becomes before-image, physiology and pathology at play. The will to walk aimlessly, rejuvenated, as stasis turns to movement and back again.

What’s in a lamp? - Bennet Pimpinella

What’s in a Lamp explores the profound connection between light and life. The warm glow of the lamps envelops the characters, creating an intimate atmosphere where light is not only physical but emotional, offering protection and warmth. A visual narrative of connection and humanity, where light becomes a symbol of care and deep bonds.

Patria Im(age)itate - Long Pham

Images from MilSim and shooter video games commingle with combat footage. Menticidal machinations are exposed within state-funded virtual worlds, which aim to reproducibly inflict wounds onto real flesh. The camera becomes a war weapon, while the POV transmutes into an orchestra of violence.

More information on Fugue State at www.thedigitalsickness.com