Shimon Attie's Night Watch (2018) is a nearly ten-minute-long work featuring close-up video portraits of twelve refugees who were granted political asylum in the United States. The images largely feature members of international LGBTQI communities, as well as unaccompanied minors, who fled tremendous violence and discrimination in their homelands of Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Peru, and Russia.
BAMPFA showcases this work on its Outdoor Screen as part of the ongoing video series On the Hour, and is presented conjunction with BOXBLUR and Immersive Arts Alliance's floating media installation of Night Watch, on view September 17–19 at various points along the San Francisco Bay and Oakand Estuary. For more information about the project, and a full schedule of related events throughout the Bay Area, visit ...