Blockbusters: Screening and Artist Talk – Part of Open Worlds 2025

Name: Blockbusters: Screening and Artist Talk – Part of Open Worlds 2025
Start: 2025-09-20T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-20T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY, United States, New York 11106

Schedule

Sat Sep 20 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY, United States, New York 11106 | Astoria, NY

This free screening and artist talk is presented by New York–based video and new media art collective Blockbusters, formed in 2021 to connect the work of members with cultural roots in several countries including Australia, Chile, Iran, Ireland, India, Israel, Pakistan, and the United States. Blockbusters’ artists, including Camila Galaz, Dakota Gearheart, Jonah King, Bahareh Khoshooee, Umber Majeed, Gal Nissim, Surabhi Saraf, and Ryan Woodring, use the video medium to uncover patterns and remnants of histories yet to be told. The works in this program critically examine aesthetic and sociopolitical implications of time-based language and the digital interfaces that mediate and shape experience and identity.
The screening will be followed by a talk with Galaz, Gearheart, King, Khoshooee, Majeed, Nissim, and Woodring moderated by Rebecca Cleman, Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). The video program will also screen at 4:00 and 5:00 p.m.
Free Admission. Part of Open Worlds 2025, a series of free events at Museum of the Moving Image. Program support provided by William Fox Jr. Foundation.
Screenings include:
You Transform Everything into a Boat
Camila Galaz, 2017, 4 mins.
Life Touching Life
Dakota Gearhart, 2023, 9 mins. (Top image)
Thoughts and Prayer from the Glowing Rectangle
Bahareh Khoshooee, 2023, 9 mins.
All My Friends Are in the Cloud
Jonah King, 2017, 4 mins.
In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present
Umber Majeed, 2019, 10 mins.
For the Birds
Gal Nissim, 2022-2023, 6 mins.
Apni’s Alaap
Surabhi Saraf, 2024, 6 mins.
spot healing
Ryan Woodring, 2024, 9 mins.
Learn more about the films and filmmakers: https://movingimage.org/event/blockbusters/
The screening program will repeat at 4:00 and 5:00 p.m.