Curating, Lectures, Conversations, etc.

2008-present

Director, Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY

2024

Contributor, Le Cinéma Book Club 4, November 2024

Introduction to screening of Luther Price’s Sodom and Todd Haynes’s Poison, part of “OUTRAGE: Movies and the Culture Wars, 1987-1996,” BAM, Brooklyn, NY

Participant, closed discussion sessions, Open Circuits Revisited, EAI/NYU, New York, NY

2023

Conversation with Richard Sandler, screening of The Gods of Times Square, Roxy Cinema, New York, NY

Juror, 26th Media City Film Festival, Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON

Conversation with João Pedro Rodriguez, screening of Will-O’-The-Wisp, IFC Center, New York, NY

Conversation with Zeina Durra, benefit screening for Medical Aid for Palestinians of Ici et ailleurs and other films, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

Conversation with Kelly Reichardt, screening of Meek’s Cutoff, Metrograph, New York, NY

2022

Conversation with the Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun), Artforum Under the Cover, May 20, 2022

Discussion with Blair McClendon, Clinton Krute and Devika Girish, “Top Gun and Nationalist Cinema,” Film Comment podcast, June 21, 2022

2021

Conversation with Jeanne Liotta, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY

Co-organizer, with Sayeeda Moreno, of the three-part online conference Black Love/Black Visions/Black Revolution, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Panelist, “Contemporary Film Distribution,” hosted online by Distribution Advocates & Prismatic Ground Film Festival, New York, NY

Conversation online with Carolyn Lazard, Kunstverein Braunchsweig, Braunchsweig, Germany

2020

Conversation with Melissa Lyde on the films of Edward Owens, Maysles Documentary Center, New York, NY

Conversation online with Elena Duque, Super8 Festival, Coruña, Spain

Discussion with Nellie Killian and Nicolas Rapold, “At Home #13,” Film Comment podcast, April 7, 2020

Conversation online with Tiffany Sia and Herb Shellenberger, Berwick Film Festival, Berwick, UK

Conversation online with Aliza Ma on Masaaki Yuasa’s Mind Game, Metrograph, New York, NY

Conversation online with Cory Arcangel, Screen Slate, New York, NY

2019

Discussion with Samuel Delany, for Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller, Lightbox Film Center, Philadelphia, PA

Introduction and screening, Nick Broomfield & Sandi Sissel, Chicken Ranch, as part of the series Another Country: Outsider Visions of America at Film at Lincoln Center

Walkthrough and discussion with curator Giampaolo Bianconi, As If: Alternative Histories Then and Now exhibition, Drawing Center, New York, NY

Discussion with Nellie Killian and Nicolas Rapold, “NYFF57 Projections,” Film Comment podcast, October 4, 2019

2018

Discussion with Cat Kron and David Roesing, “Distribution,” Induction Burners podcast, March 2018

Curator, “Acts of Faith,” film series for the exhibition “Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place,” Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, NY (Sept 2018 - January 2019)

Discussion with Nick Pinkerton and Violet Lucca, "Le Cinéma du Glut,” Film Comment podcast, June 7, 2018

Guest presenter, Cinema Camp film symposium, Lithuania (August 2018)

Introduction and screening, “Tricia’s Wedding + Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom,” at Metrograph Holiday Book Fair, Metrograph, New York, NY

Discussion with Samuel L. Delany, “Huma Bhabha—We Come in Peace,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Lecture and discussion, “Metaphors on Vision by Brakhage,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Discussion with Cory Arcangel, Arcangel Surfware, Stavanger, Norway

Discussion and screening of Leo Hurtwitz’s Strange Victory, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

Lecture and discussion with Sam Ashby, “From the Third Eye: Writing Workshop,” ICA London, London, UK

2017

Curator, Luther Price retrospective, S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña, Spain (June 2017)

Lecture, “The Aesthetics of Found Footage,” S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña, Spain

Curator, Peter Hutton retrospective, Close Up Cinema, London, UK (August 2017)

2016

Curator, “From the Third Eye: Evergreen Review on Film,” BAMcinematek, Brooklyn, NY (March 2016)

Moderator, Open Score: Art and Technology 2016, The New Museum, New York, NY

Lecture and discussion, New Media Lecture Series, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY

Lecture, “Late Night Talk: Pop and Cinema,” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Curatorial advisor, Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2015

Curator, film component, International Pop, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, (April-August 2015); Dallas Museum of Art (October 2015-January 2016); Philadelphia Museum of Art (February-May 2016)

Curator, “Nature is a Discipline,” Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY

Lecture and discussion, Artists’ Moving Image in Britain: From 1990 to Today, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Conversation with Saul Levine, for “Saul Levine, Part I: 1966-77,”  Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA

Conversation with Luther Price and Introduction to Program 3 for “The World Made Flesh and Freed by Song and Sadness - The Visions of Luther Price,” Harvard Film Archive, January-February 2015

2014

Lecture, “Weird Science,” The Poetry Project, New York, NY

Participant, “Physique Tutorial: Vaginal Davis is Speaking from the Perineum,” in conjunction with DEVOTION: Excavating Bob Mizer, 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY

2013

Curator, Luther Price retrospective, Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany

Organizer, 5th Annual Tube Time!, Migrating Forms Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

Lecture, “On Gold Diggers of 1933 and 42nd Street,” Annalia 1933, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Lecture and screening of Alan Schneider’s Film and Jean Genet’s Un chant d’amour, EMPAC, RPI, Troy, NY

Lecturer and participant, “The Cinema is Jonas Mekas,” International House of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Participant, “Séances: The Cinematic Event,” Columbia University, New York, NY

Lecture, “Curating film at the 2012 Whitney Biennial,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL

Introduction, “Backstage Interviews,” Andy Kaufman’s 99 Cent Tour, Participant, Inc., New York, NY

Lecture, Visiting Filmmakers Lecture Series, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

2012

Co-curator, “Nine Films by Luther Price,” LUX / ICA Biennial of Moving Images, ICA London, London, UK

Co-curator, Film and Video Program, 2012 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY

Lecture, “The Immediacy Mechanism: A Lecture on Anne McGuire’s Strain Andromeda, The,” Right Window Gallery / ATA, San Francisco, CA

Lecture, Dept. of Art & Art History, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Lecturer and participant, “Avant-Garde: Lost in Time and Space,” Think:Film--International Experimental Cinema Congress 2012, Arsenal, Berlin, Germany

Introduction, Jack Smith’s Normal Love, International House, Philadelphia, PA

Conversation with William E. Jones, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Lecture, “Un Film de Diane Chambers,” Migrating Forms Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

Conversation with Nathaniel Dorsky, 2012 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Conversation with Luther Price, 2012 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2011

Lecture, Artists Cinema 2011: Projected Images, Walker Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Lecture, Dept. of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Conversation with George Kuchar, The Armory Show / Volta NY: Open Forum, New York, NY

Curator, “Mark Morrisroe Super 8,” Artists Space, New York NY

Curator, “Portraiture in Queer Experimental Cinema,” Hallwalls / University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

2010

Co-curator, GNY Cinema, Greater New York 2010, MoMA-PS1, Queens, NY

Curator, film program, “Dead Flowers,” PARTICIPANT, INC., New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA

Curator, “Repetition, Remaking, Reuse,” 6th Annual Brakhage Symposium, University of Colorado, Boulder

Curator, “Vivienne Dick,” Artists Space, New York, NY

Curator, “We Dig Repetition: Peter Roehr,” Artists Space, New York, NY

Curator, “Shellshock Rock,” Artists Space, New York, NY

2009

Guest curator, “Summer Knowledge,” Artists Space, New York, NY

2006

Guest Artistic Director, 11th Cinematexas International Short Film & Video Festival, Austin, TX

1998-2005

Director, New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY

2002

Curator, 48th Flaherty Film Seminar, Poughkeepsie, NY

1999

Curator, film program, BAM Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

1995-1997

Programmer, New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY