subway stories and other shorts
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Director: Ann Messner
2024 / 60min / DCP
subway stories and other shorts' brings together the digitized Super 8 documentation of Ann Messner's renowned guerilla performances from the 1970s, shot in the New York City subway system and other public thoroughfares. In the cramped container of the subway carriage Messner tested the pliability of the social contract and found "a universe of concentrated collective imagination, with untapped potential." The suite of durational films will be presented in the context of other work by the artist from the same period, much of which was shot in lower Manhattan, and has never been shown publicly before.
Post-screening conversation with artist and filmmaker Ann Messner moderated by Melanie Kress, Senior Curator at the Public Art Fund
Screening organized in collaboration with Davila-Villa & Stothart
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