UsThemThemUs, 3:37, 2015

UsThemThemUs is a video comprised of statements extracted from sci-fi cinema in which characters attempt to articulate a boundary between humans and non-humans. These declarations of difference desperately seek to establish delineations between human and machine and animal, yet often resort to nebulous-to-define traits such as emotion, belief, or the soul. Rather than establish clear definitions of what the human is or is not, instead these attempts reveal a slippery space of boundary determinations, as well as anxieties and pejorative associations entangled with notions of difference and otherness, particularly when ‘the other’ begins to become the same…

Text and audio statements are all direct citations from selected films.

screenings

2017 UsThemThemUs (gallery), Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival, Factory Luxe, Seattle, USA

2017 UsThemThemUs, Mujeres de ULTRAcinema, Mexico, program from Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá: Internacional: Mujeres, Subversión en la imagen experimental en movimiento (Women and Subversion in Experimental Film), Colombia

2017 UsThemThemUs, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece

2017 UsThemThemUs, Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá / CineAutopsia: Internacional: Mujeres, Subversión en la imagen experimental en movimiento (Women and Subversion in Experimental Film), Bogotá, Colombia

2017 UsThemThemUs, European Media Arts Festival: PUSH, Osnabrück, Germany

2017 UsThemThemUs, Underneath the Floorboards, Hackney Picture House, London, UK

2016 UsThemThemUs, Jornadas de Reapropiación, Touring Program, Faro Aragón, Mexico City, Mexico

2016 UsThemThemUs, Jornadas de Reapropiación (Journeys of Reappropiation), Centro de Cultura Digital, México City, México

2016 UsThemThemUs, Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, Canada

2016 UsThemThemUs, Experiments in Cinema v11.4, Albuquerque, USA

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