Curator and artist, Mike Morris, and his collaborators on the experimental videos, Ghosts of Lost Futures, have been busy with additional screenings of this program of works. Ghosts premiered at the Dallas Museum of Art in the Horchow Auditorium on May 22 with ten works by ten experimental video artists commissioned to re-interpret film footage from the WFAA Newsfilm archive. The footage from the Hamon’s G. William Jones Video and Film Archive was selected from 1970 to recognize the year of the archive’s establishment. Due to COVID, the first screening was postponed over one year later.
Since this screening at the DMA, Ghosts was in the line-up of screenings for the Experimental Response Cinema, sponsored by the Austin Film Society, on November 8. Organized by the artist and program participant, Liz Rhodda, Mike Morris attended virtually to answer questions from a large audience.
On November 20, selected works from Ghosts screened with other video works at San Francisco’s Other Cinema’s annual Archive Fever program. Selected films were:
Curt Heiner – The Stars of Texas Shine Tonight
Lisa McCarty – Undelivered Remarks
Zak Loyd – Deep River / Ocean of Storms
Angelo Madsen Minax – Stay with me, the world is a devastating place
Marwa Benhalim – The Void Remembers
This spring, the video works will be featured at another experimental film festival, Experiments in Cinema, in Albuquerque. The dates for this screening have yet to be slated. Please check the EIC website for screening updates. The selections of videos will include:
Lisa MCarty – Undelivered Remarks
Tramaine Townsend – FRAMES.-DALLUS
Zak Loyd – Deep River / Ocean of Storms
Angelo Madsen Minax – Stay with me, the world is a devastating place
Liz Rodda – Amid Flowers, Crowns, and Tears
Blog post: Mike Morris, curator and artist; and Beverly Mitchell, Assistant Director, Hamon Arts Library