Still from ‘Preemptive Disappearance’ by Francisca Benitez
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‘Preemptive Disappearance’ by Francisca Benitez
2nd July 2009 19:00
The first in a series of artist’s film and video screenings at IMT in collaboration with Filmarmalade.
The series will present film and video works selected by Filmarmalade beginning with a screening of ‘Preemptive Disappearance’ by Francisca Benitez.
Francisca Benitez’s ‘Preemptive Disappearance’, describes the effects of the Patriot Act on artists living in New York as told through the tender recounting of the experience of someone who discovers, when returning home one day, that her husband has been arrested for taking photographs ‘in the wrong place’. Benitez’s film slowly draws us into the emotional turmoil and sense of loss that is felt when someone close to you disappears and allows us a powerful and dramatic insight into the personal insecurity suffered by many people after 9/11. ‘Preemptive Disappearance’ is published by Filmarmalade as a limited edition of 50.
The screening will include an interview with Francisca Benitez by Katie Guggenheim and Dan Smith, specially commissioned by Filmarmalade’s curator Gordon Shrigley and included with this edition.
Still from ‘An interview with Francisca Benitez’ by Gordon Shrigley
Francisca Benitez recently exhibited work at the Westport Arts Centre, Connecticut, Exit Art, New York, Smack Mellon, New York, Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Valenzuela Klenner Galería, Bogotá and at the Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York. She was born in the Chile and lives and works in New York.
Gordon Shrigley recently exhibited work at the Centre for Recent Drawing, Vine Space Gallery, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Museum of Modern Art, Saint Etienne and at the Schloss Solitude gallery, Stuttgart. He was born in the United Kingdom and lives and works in London.
Filmarmalade is an artists run project established to publish on DVD selected artists’ films and video works, so as to encourage a wider access to the moving image and to allow a greater understanding, through specially commissioned interviews, of how each artist situates their work, in relation to the history of art and contemporary fine art practice.