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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Event Details
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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