Vivid Sunsets Over Glistening Oceans

Screenings Sat., May 25, 2024, 2 p.m.

When: Sat., May 25, 2024, 2–5 p.m.
Where: Art Theater
Tickets: $10 ($8 for students and Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Members)
$64 Season Pass ($48 for students and Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Members)
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This program features three short films, the premiere of a new video artwork, and a feature-length film that all expand viewers’ understandings of what the tropics are. Dessane Lopez Cassell, New York-based editor, writer, and curator, will introduce the films.

Tropical Fruit in European Still Lifes^{^*†}
(Astria Suparak, 2024, 7.5 min.)
Tropical Cats^‡
(Astria Suparak, 2024, 7 min.)
Tropicollage
(Astria Suparak, 2021, 2 min.)
Vers les colonies (Towards the Colonies)
(Miryam Charles, 2016, 5 min.)
Cane Fire
(Anthony Banua-Simon, 2020, 90 min.)

Run time: One hour and 44 min.
^* Looped in the Art Theater prior to screening
^† Contains works from Carnegie Museum of Art’s collection
^‡ Premiere of a new artwork

Notes from guest film programmer, Astria Suparak

The tropics exist as a dreamy respite from “real” life…for some people. White-made media reinforces a racialized, exotic vacation trope, training their cameras on and constructing sets with gangly palm trees, pristine beaches, glistening oceans, and deferential Pacific Islander, Asian, Caribbean, and/or Indigenous people. That is the cherry-picked, colonialist view of tropical lands. Wish you weren’t here.

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About the Speaker

Dessane Lopez Cassell is a New York-based editor, writer, and curator. Her writing and curation spans film and visual art, and their intersections, with a particular interest in documentary, video art/artist’s moving image, race, gender, decoloniality, and voices from the African and Caribbean diasporas.

About the Carnegie Museum of Art Film Series

Join us for the 2024 Carnegie Museum of Art Film Series programmed by artist and curator Astria Suparak. Each month, gather in our Art Theater for an afternoon of film featuring a curated a combination of forms, ranging from feature-length narratives and documentaries to music videos, formalist experiments, animation, and internet memes. The selections date from 1920s avant-garde cinema to a new collage video created for the series.