KILLER DENTIST PRESS PRESENTS: VARIOUS SHORTS
dirs. Various, 2010s
Approx 50 mins. Brooklyn.
In English.
SATURDAY, MAY 7 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, MAY 13 – 10 PM
THURSDAY, MAY 19 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, MAY 20 – 7:30 PM
KILLER DENTIST PRESS PRESENTS: VARIOUS SHORTS is a program that features short films that use text as art and focus on dialogue. Yana Toyber’s shorts explore various themes such as ancient feminist history, witchcraft, and the body’s connection to nature. The Center For Post-Capitalist History, a parafictional museum existing in a precarious and unspecified future, is introduced in this narrated video with unsettling commercial interruptions. And originally screened at an exhibit called “Hollywood Forever”, Elspeth Walker’s STARS THEY’RE JUST LIKE US explores the death of Lane Stanley from Alice in Chains and how it resurfaced trauma from a death in the artist’s personal life. The film features confessional text and old sound of Lane’s bandmates on Celebrity Rehab talking about his death. It’s a very powerful short that touches on celebrity death and how we as fans are impacted by it.
KILLER DENTIST PRESS is an experimental publisher based in NYC that publishes conceptual artist writing and text turned art. For more see killer-dentist.com or visit @other.subjects.