- WhenUpcoming
- Sat., May 25, 2024, 2–5 p.m.
- Where
- Art Theater
- Tickets
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$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 two short films, the premiere of a new video commissioned for the Carnegie Museum of Art Film Series, 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*†
- Tropical Cats*‡
(Astria Suparak, 2024, 2 min.) - Tropicollage
(Astria Suparak, 2021, 1:20 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 39 min.
* Looped in the Art Theater prior to screening
† Contains works from Carnegie Museum of Art’s collection
‡ Premiere of a new video made for the Carnegie Museum of Art Film Series
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.
