“Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video” Exhibition
The Jewish Museum
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Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video is a longterm presentation of new film and video works made in the sphere of the visual arts. The series offers a rotating selection of vigorous works by contemporary artists from around the world. It introduces New York audiences to the latest developments in filmmaking within the art context and underlines The Jewish Museum’s holistic and global approach to the understanding and presentation of art and culture.
Sights and Sounds takes advantage of the straightforward way film and video travel: shipped on discs or streamed online, these works provide an instant connection to new creative practices from even the most remote locations.
Twenty-five international curators have selected new film and video work from their respective regions of the world – ranging from Argentina to Vietnam, Nigeria to Romania, New Zealand to Egypt, and many places in between. Their picks are screened for one month each in the museum’s media center, which has been turned into a miniature cinema for the occasion.
The works in Sights and Sounds touch on themes significant to both Jewish culture and universal human experience: spirituality, exile, language, conflict, family, humor, history. The series creates a broad network of artistic expression and curatorial perspectives that takes stock of what is happening in film and video art at this moment in time across the globe – with a particular emphasis on work being made outside western Europe and the United States.
Sights and Sounds will culminate with a publication presenting curatorial statements, essays, discussions among curators and artists, and descriptions of the films in the series. There will also be a conference for the conclusion of the project in 2016.
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Schedule
from November 08, 2013 to February 05, 2015