FILM CLUB
SERIES
SERIES
#1: HYPERPARAMETER
DEC 17, 2024-
DEC 29, 2024
DEC 29, 2024
CURATED BY
REBECCA PICANSO
REBECCA PICANSO
To round out 2024, SARA’S is delighted to announce the inaugural iteration of Film Club, a new semi-regular series of film and video screenings.
Film Club #1: Hyperparameter, taking place tomorrow Dec 30 and Tuesday, Dec 31, is organized by Rebecca Picanso, New York-based artist and curator. She has selected Aashish Gadani’s Money Is Beautiful | Manifesting Wealth and Abundance Hypnosis, 2024 and Inès Kivimäki’s Water Mother, 2022. Both films will play on a loop daily 12-8pm on the 30th and 31st. A selection of artworks by Inès Kivimäki will be shown in the front gallery. Join us!
Film Club #1: Hyperparameter, taking place tomorrow Dec 30 and Tuesday, Dec 31, is organized by Rebecca Picanso, New York-based artist and curator. She has selected Aashish Gadani’s Money Is Beautiful | Manifesting Wealth and Abundance Hypnosis, 2024 and Inès Kivimäki’s Water Mother, 2022. Both films will play on a loop daily 12-8pm on the 30th and 31st. A selection of artworks by Inès Kivimäki will be shown in the front gallery. Join us!
Inès Kivimäki, Water Mother, 2022. 10 minutes.
In Water Mother, Los Angeles-based artist Inès Kivimäki traces the origins of Apple’s digital assistant, Siri, and its human counterpart, voice actor Susan Bennett who poses as a sonic mother-earth within a genealogy of artificial intelligence. Retelling and expanding this narrative through interviews with Bennett, Kivimäki asks her to recount her birth story, as well as Siri’s through her embodiment. Using artificial intelligence as a means of envisioning Siri’s physical incarnation and visual world, Kivimäki feeds her correspondence with Bennett and the nonsensical voice model scripts used to build Siri’s voice to early stage text-to-image and text-to-video generators, creating an output that proposes a world where the algorithmic aligns with the mythic.” -Inès Kivimäki
In Water Mother, Los Angeles-based artist Inès Kivimäki traces the origins of Apple’s digital assistant, Siri, and its human counterpart, voice actor Susan Bennett who poses as a sonic mother-earth within a genealogy of artificial intelligence. Retelling and expanding this narrative through interviews with Bennett, Kivimäki asks her to recount her birth story, as well as Siri’s through her embodiment. Using artificial intelligence as a means of envisioning Siri’s physical incarnation and visual world, Kivimäki feeds her correspondence with Bennett and the nonsensical voice model scripts used to build Siri’s voice to early stage text-to-image and text-to-video generators, creating an output that proposes a world where the algorithmic aligns with the mythic.” -Inès Kivimäki
Aashish Gadani, Money is Beautiful | Manifesting Wealth And Abundance Hypnos, 2024,14 minutes.
In the supercut *Money Is Beautiful | Manifesting Wealth and Abundance Hypnosis*, movie scenes concerning amounts of money are identified and edited together to create a methodical ascending count. The clips are separated from their original context so that the viewer can focus on the act of counting as a form of manifestation mantra. The video is assembled using a custom search engine and video curation tool built by the artist.
To get involved in future iterations, reach out to Rebecca at rebecca@saras.world.
In the supercut *Money Is Beautiful | Manifesting Wealth and Abundance Hypnosis*, movie scenes concerning amounts of money are identified and edited together to create a methodical ascending count. The clips are separated from their original context so that the viewer can focus on the act of counting as a form of manifestation mantra. The video is assembled using a custom search engine and video curation tool built by the artist.
UPCOMING FILM CLUB SCREENINGS
TO BE ANNOUNCED
TO BE ANNOUNCED
To get involved in future iterations, reach out to Rebecca at rebecca@saras.world.