No Image from Camera B: The Personal Cinema of Gloria Chung
Sat, Nov 02
|Millennium Film Workshop


Time & Location
Nov 02, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM
Millennium Film Workshop, 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237, USA
Guests
About the event
No image from camera B: The Personal Cinema of Gloria Chung
curated by Joe Wakeman and Ari-Duong Nguyen
Filmic travelogs as cautionary tales, told through images of sublime nature - Gloria Chung reflects on the human experience in the time of unfolding climate crisis.
Found footage from traffic webcams and news reports accompany diaristic snippets captured in transit, the camera gaze slipping out of human operation. In Gloria Chung’s honest exploration of this world that entrances her, nostalgia and anxiety for a disintegrating futurity is palpable, like a veil that wraps us in. Yet, Gloria’s films are infectiously calm, the sensorial drama of awe-inspiring nature unfolds like poetry…
The screening is accompanied by an exhibition of live-broadcasted camera feeds on display in the Millennium Gallery. These feeds from satellite cameras form an important aspect of Gloria's work - these are images made for knowledge of the existent world, environmental documents…