SATURDAY, JULY 13th - 7:30 PM w/discussion moderated by Sadie Benning & 10PM w/discussion moderated by Owen Kline

ONE NIGHT ONLY! NYC PREMIERE!
(These screenings are $10.)

Spectacle is pleased to invite Uruguayan-born, NYC-based filmmaker and musician  JUAN WAUTERS to the space for a one-night-only screening of recent short-form video works. ROMANE, JUIN 2016 builds a video portrait of the titular Romane, a 19-year-old postal service worker, living in a small village in France as she goes through her daily chores.

BOLERO URUGUAY, DIC 2017 is a montage of images collected in Wauters' homeland set to the tune of Maurice Ravel's classic orchestral piece "Bolero".

Both videos portray life at its own pace; driven by curiosity, Wauters' camera stares at people living their lives. Having spent years in Jackson Heights, quotidian observation of people in their day-to-day environments has become central to Wauters' life and artistic practice.

This will be the first public screening of Wauters’ short films (which will include a few extra surprises) in New York, and Wauters will be in attendance for a discussion following the films.

Programmed in collaboration with Steve Holmgren and David Powell Steine. Special thanks to Captured Tracks.


SADIE BENNING is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Benning’s work has been exhibited internationally since 1990. Over the last three decades, Benning’s work has taken the form of video, music, and more recently mixed-media works that trouble the distinctions between painting, photography, drawing and sculpture.

OWEN KLINE is a New York based film maker and cinema connoisseur. He is an actor, writer and director, known for THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (2005) and FOWL PLAY (2013), the later featuring Juan Wauters. Kline is currently in the final stages of completing his new film, TWO AGAINST NATURE.