• Annie MacDonell, Maïder Fortuné, Communicating Vessels, 2020

  • Annie MacDonell, Maïder Fortuné, OUTHERE (For Lee Lozano), 2021

  • Gunvor Nelson, My Name Is Oona, 1969

  • Ben Russell, Trypps #7 (Badlands), 2010

  • Lillian Schwartz, Enigma, 1972



Communicating Vessels



  • In Person
    Annie MacDonell

Videos by Annie MacDonell and Maïder Fortuné bring a feminist perspective to the consideration of consciousness-expanding practices through drugs and/or art, work, and life. MacDonell noted, “I spent about five years making many works around psychedelics, always using it as a metaphor for how we can escape the chokehold capitalism has on our sense of ourselves and what is possible in the world.” OUTHERE (For Lee Lozano) is an elliptical portrait of the Conceptual artist based around a lecture she gave in 1971. Communicating Vessels, among many things, explores the flow of ideas between a teacher and student. These films screen with Lillian Schwartz’s abstract Enigma, Ben Russell’s Trypps #7 (Badlands), and Gunvor Nelson’s My Name Is Oona.

Films in this Screening

Enigma

Lillian Schwartz, United States, 1972

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 4 mins
source
  • BAMPFA

OUTHERE (For Lee Lozano)

Annie MacDonell, Maïder Fortuné, Canada, France, 2021

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 32 mins
source
  • Annie MacDonell
source
  • Maïder Fortuné

Trypps #7 (Badlands)

Ben Russell, United States, 2010

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 10 mins
source
  • Canyon Cinema

Communicating Vessels

Annie MacDonell, Maïder Fortuné, Canada, 2020

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 31 mins
source
  • Annie MacDonell
source
  • Maïder Fortuné

My Name Is Oona

Gunvor Nelson, United States, 1969

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 16mm
  • 10 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
Additional Info
  • BAMPFA preservation print, preserved through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation, funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation

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