XINEMA: SUNSET SEDUCTION (the "Screening") with Charles de Agustin (NYC)

XINEMA is excited to welcome visiting artist Charles de Agustin (NYC) for SUNSET SEDUCTION, the Canadian premiere screening of his new feature film presented as a part of SUNSET SEDUCTION:GATHERINGS AGAINST INSTITUTIONAL CAPTURE: a three-part series consisting of a critical discussion, workshop, and screening from February 19-23. These engagements will investigate the tensions between nonprofit, state, and grassroots formations through the lens of cultural institutions in Vancouver, BC and beyond.

SUNSET SEDUCTION (the "Screening"):

Sunday, February 23, 7pm @ 5050 Wales St, Norquay Park Field House

$15 suggested donation, NOTAFLOF

Sunset Seduction (2024) stars a liberal philanthropist yearning for his next fling with radical politics. Written as the Palestine solidarity movement escalated in 2024, the work unfolds in essayistic fragments considering ideas of freedom, violence, and the seductive capture of revolutionary ideology. Sunset Seduction is a personal, conceptual, and activist work that claims a film, contract, and discussion as its materials, together aiming to materialize the particular responsibilities of cultural workers in the global north.

This program will feature a screening of the central 45-minute film, followed by an extended audience discussion that will address reflections on prior series discussion and workshop sessions.

Charles de Agustin makes films that scavenge at the boundaries of institutional critique. Solo and group presentations 2021-25 include Alternative Film/Video (Belgrade), Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan), Arts + Literature Laboratory (Madison), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), Kassel Dokfest (Germany), Maysles Documentary Center (New York), Revolutions per Minute Festival (Boston), Saigon Experimental Film Festival (Vietnam), South London Gallery (England), Spectacle (Brooklyn), among others. de Agustin has a BFA from Rutgers University and an MFA from the University of Oxford. He has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYSCA, Brooklyn Arts Council, and the Elephant Trust. charlesdeagustin.com

To apply to be a part of NAVIGATING COMMUNITY & LABOUR IN VANCOUVER ARTS/CULTURE SPACES (the "Discussion"), taking place on February 19, 2025 from 6 to 8pm please fill out this brief application by February 15, 2025. Status results will be notified by February 16, 2025.

To attend EXPERIMENTAL CONTRACTS & SUBVERSIVE ADMINISTRATION (the "Workshop"), taking place on February 22, 2025 from 2 to 5pm, please register here. Capacity is very limited so we encourage you to reserve your seat as soon as possible

For more information about SUNSET SEDUCTION:GATHERINGS AGAINST INSTITUTIONAL CAPTURE and corresponding events please visit xinema.ca.

SUNSET SEDUCTION:GATHERINGS AGAINST INSTITUTIONAL CAPTURE was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and is sponsored by Tapeworm Corp. The production of Sunset Seduction was sponsored, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, as well as the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. XINEMA's Fieldhouse is supported by the Vancouver Park Board's Fieldhouse Activation Program.

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