Fauxnique + San Francisco Dance Film Festival

In conjunction with Moving Pictures: A Survey Exhibition of Works by Deborah Oropallo and Collaborators di Rosa and Catharine Clark Gallery’s Box Blur present a performance in movement by Fauxnique (Monique Jenkinson) accompanied by a screening of short films selected by San Francisco Dance Film Festival.

Part One: Down the Path

Nearly two decades ago Fauxnique presented Heroic Comportment a performance in response to Oropallo’s exhibition Guise at San Francisco’s de Young Museum kicking off a creative connection that continues to weave through the artists’ lives. Building on that shared history Fauxnique’s performance Down the Path takes inspiration from the fairy tale and protest imagery in Oropallo’s current exhibition Moving Pictures. The performance draws on Fauxnique’s persistent obsession with artifice authenticity and femininity to contemplate the march of personal and political progress interrupted by obstacles real and imagined and villains tricky and treacherous. 

Part Two: Postcards from the Edge. 

Curated by Randall Heath Executive Director of the SF Dance Film Festival Postcards from the Edgepresents a selection of short dance films celebrating movement resilience and transformation while unfurling urgent narratives of climate distress political defiance and the fluidity of gender identity. Through dramatic choreography and cinematography the films in Postcards from the Edge capture a spirit of resistance and reinvention proving that even in times of upheaval movement is a force for change. 

Curated by Randall Heath Executive Director of the SF Dance Film Festival. 

Selected films:

Circle (Mexico)

The Dérive (Iran)

Ghostly Labor (USA)

Mother Melancholia (Germany)

Nelkin Line (USA) 

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