08/24/2024
Experimental filmmaker returns to (71 N 3rd Street) this weekend, helping to curate a group show with fellow avant garde video artists as part of this year’s .hudson.eye.2024 festival.
The show, entitled ‘Wild Minds,’ consists of looping experimental films, installed in various rooms and corridors of what was once a schoolhouse.
In addition to Autery, whose video installation was shot with a GoPro perched on the roof of the Second Ward Foundation building itself, works by , , .schreiner, and .kujawski are all on display. Shooting on various mediums— from VHS and Super 8, to handheld digital, to handmade 16mm film stock— each artist breaks perceived convention and pushes the boundaries of traditional filmmaking, while together creating an overall experience that can be both unsettling at times, but also utterly captivating.
“Despite using different approaches and having different themes, there is a common thread connecting them, some of which is interpersonal, and all of which are common in the spirit of being untamed,” Autery told us. “It is a collection of artists who are outliers and renegades, who break the perceived rules effortlessly, whose worlds created are unto themselves and while defiant and vulnerable, unapologetically invite us in.”
The show opens with a reception tonight (Saturday 8/24) from 7 to 9pm, and is open to the public the same hours on Sunday, as well.
Editor’s note: Several of the films contain adult subject matter and the show is intended for mature audiences.
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