KEREN CYTTER VIDEO SHORTS
dir. Keren Cytter, 2014-2016
Approx 62 mins. 

SATURDAY, MAY 6 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, MAY 8 – 5 PM
THURSDAY, MAY 21 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, MAY 28 – 10 PM

Keren Cytter creates films, performances, drawings and photographs on topics of social alienation, language representation and the function of individuals in predetermined cultural systems through experimental modes of storytelling and human perception. She has had major exhibitions at Winterthur KunstMuseum (2020); CCA Tel Aviv (2019); Museion Bolzano (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, (2015); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2014); and Show Real Drama, Tate Modern Oil Tanks, London (2012) and in 2021 she was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship (2021).  This short film collection features 4 works from 2014-2016, all the films were shot in NYC.  In this program, Cytter’s obscure narrative method is clearly observed with a style that is familiar, deranged, and laughable.

FEATURING:

Metaphorsis (2015)
This film was pulled together from a wide range of footage, much of it appropriated from sources ranging from Hollywood films to historical documentaries to YouTube videos; it is presented in rapid succession with only the barest narrative thread about sex and crime. The work explores the rich theme of paranoia, but less as an individual preoccupation than as a generalized state of being in the age of the Internet. 

Rose Garden (2014) 
In Rose Garden, a tragic story takes place in a Texan bar. Its drastic course and the lightness of composition are opposing while a musical arrangement is formed by the repetitive employment of various elements (theme music, changing atmospheres, rifle shots). Cytter is explicitly criticizing dogmatic family values, American gun laws, and specific socio-behavioral patterns.

Siren (2014) 
Siren deals with "poor images" and their mass processing; specifically, how such images are circulated by mobile and smartphone cameras with editing tools, special effects etc. Images and scenes are repeated in different qualities and contexts, showing the wide range of ambiguous possibilities of interpretation images can have.

Object: (2016)
Object was filmed in the artist’s apartment in New York. 
It consists of nine sequences from a static point of view. 
The camera is not panning or zooming and can only change 
its focus on three men and a young woman moving through 
narrow spaces and perpetrating cruelties against each other.