Jesse Malmed: Micro Synonym

////JESSE MALMED // MICRO SYNONYM /////////////////////////////////

////July 8th, 2026 // Millennium Film Workshop // Brooklyn, NY ////

////7:30 DOORS////8:00 SHOW///9:ISH EMPTY ORCHESTRA////////////////

Jesse Malmed, crossing guard at the elusive intersection of Illusion and Allusion, brings an evening of video and performance to the legendary Millennium Film Workshop. And then karaoke.

Endlessly languaging, comically cosmically commingling, psychedelically sampling, tonight’s show gathers paradise from recent (like, live) and older works.  To wit: reshuffled cards, the regime of rectangles, meaning’s search for us, a film that never ends, video and the everywhere.  As we say, the experiment is the work.

Or to Zagat a description from various [smart, cool] critics, “[t]he works can be dizzying to take in”… “[a] joke is being played on someone, though admirers will tend to possess a paranoid sense of humour and a heavy predilection for puns”… “it’s doubtful to be […] mawkishly reverent”… “[he] clearly takes joy…