Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"

Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"

Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"

Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"

Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"

Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"

John Brendan Guinan

Still from Marielle Ingram's "seeker"

Still from Marielle Ingram's "seeker"

Still from Marielle Ingram's "seeker"

Marielle Ingram

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Film Screenings by John Brendan Guinan and Marielle Ingram

Cost

Where

Gridley Chapel
37 Furnance Bank Road
Wassaic, NY 12592

When

Saturday, July 19
12–7 PM

Who

Artist: Marielle Ingram 

Work: seeker, 2025

Synopsis: seeker is a speculative short film following Caes, a government worker in the near future known as a ‘seeker’, whose job is to catalog and upload any and all information to Wim — a powerful artificial intelligence with a hidden agenda.  seeker asks what ‘memory objects' — CDs, cassettes, photographs, video, 8mm, polaroids, sheet music, postcards, movie tickets, photo slides, and more—are, what they mean, what they offer us, and, in our increasingly digitized and interfaced world, what power they have over us as they begin to disappear.

Credits:

Directed by Marielle Ingram 

Produced by Sarah Yi Fineman 

Cinematography by Bradley Credit 

Starring Alexis Cofield, Axel Newville, Zoe Zien 

With funding support from Black Film Space / CliveRD 

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Artist: John Brendan Guinan

Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus, 2024

Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus unfolds as a surreal procession through pastoral fields into a shadowed forest, where a ritualistic mass explores the gravitational pull of hierarchy and the dissolution of individuals into systems larger than themselves. The film centers on the enigmatic Salvation Machine, a towering figure donning a white tuxedo and gold mask, who embodies the symbolic father—a cipher onto which the congregation projects obedience, meaning, and devotion. Clad in flowing white robes and gilded veils, the congregants move not by coercion but by the inertia of participation, raising the question of whether free will can exist within pre-existing structures of power and ideology, as framed by Heidegger’s notion of Geworfenheit (Thrownness). The film resists resolution: the congregation does not escape but is absorbed, enacting a cycle of submission that oscillates between seduction and command.

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Film Screenings by John Brendan Guinan and Marielle Ingram

Cost

Where

Gridley Chapel
37 Furnance Bank Road
Wassaic, NY 12592

When

Saturday, July 19
12–7 PM

Who

Artist: Marielle Ingram 

Work: seeker, 2025

Synopsis: seeker is a speculative short film following Caes, a government worker in the near future known as a ‘seeker’, whose job is to catalog and upload any and all information to Wim — a powerful artificial intelligence with a hidden agenda.  seeker asks what ‘memory objects' — CDs, cassettes, photographs, video, 8mm, polaroids, sheet music, postcards, movie tickets, photo slides, and more—are, what they mean, what they offer us, and, in our increasingly digitized and interfaced world, what power they have over us as they begin to disappear.

Credits:

Directed by Marielle Ingram 

Produced by Sarah Yi Fineman 

Cinematography by Bradley Credit 

Starring Alexis Cofield, Axel Newville, Zoe Zien 

With funding support from Black Film Space / CliveRD 

---

Artist: John Brendan Guinan

Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus, 2024

Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus unfolds as a surreal procession through pastoral fields into a shadowed forest, where a ritualistic mass explores the gravitational pull of hierarchy and the dissolution of individuals into systems larger than themselves. The film centers on the enigmatic Salvation Machine, a towering figure donning a white tuxedo and gold mask, who embodies the symbolic father—a cipher onto which the congregation projects obedience, meaning, and devotion. Clad in flowing white robes and gilded veils, the congregants move not by coercion but by the inertia of participation, raising the question of whether free will can exist within pre-existing structures of power and ideology, as framed by Heidegger’s notion of Geworfenheit (Thrownness). The film resists resolution: the congregation does not escape but is absorbed, enacting a cycle of submission that oscillates between seduction and command.

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Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"
Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"
Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"
Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"
Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"
Still from John Brendan Guinan's "Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus"
John Brendan Guinan
Still from Marielle Ingram's "seeker"
Still from Marielle Ingram's "seeker"
Still from Marielle Ingram's "seeker"
Marielle Ingram
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