Film still courtesy of Krista Gay.
Join us on Friday, April 5 from 6-8pm for Daily Basis, a one-night screening of short films by Krista Gay, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Jard Lerebours, and Devon Narine-Singh. These five divergent works consider issues of love, history, and power in the push-and-pull of communing with others, as well as how sound manifests as violence and healing.
This program is part of the third season of Sight/Geist, a series at The 8th Floor that supports local emerging film and performance artists. The screening will begin by 6:30pm, to be followed by an artist discussion and Q&A led by the Foundation’s Charles de Agustin, Sight/Geist organizer.
Please note that some contents in this program may be unsuitable for audiences under the age of 18.
All of our events are free and open to the public, with RSVPs encouraged. The gallery will be open for normal public hours of Reality Reframed: Recent Works by Todd Gray on the day of the program from 11am, with select works potentially obstructed from 5pm due to the event setup. Info on accessing our space can be found here. Email us with any questions.
Krista Gay (b. 1998, Los Angeles, CA, lives in New York) is an artist working through photography, video, language, and sound installation to investigate the holes in the histories connected to the black femme body. Gay’s work—with the aim of making the essential connections to the role played by Black women in today's society—uses archival video and photography sourced from the internet in order to comment on the cultural understanding of black women in contrast to their lived experience. @digitalblackface.jpeg
Kearra Amaya Gopee (they/them) is an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin-island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York, NY). Using video, sculpture, sound, writing and other media, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. They render this violence elastic and atemporal — leaving ample room for the consideration and manipulation of its history, implications on the present and possible afterlives. kearramaya.com
Jard Lerebours (He/They) is a First generation Jamaican-Haitian filmmaker, writer and programmer from Long Island, New York. They approach artmaking as a conversation between friends and family in communion. He deeply cares about this owing to a West Indian upbringing by a loving village of cousins, aunts, uncles, great uncles, grandparents and great grandparents. The goal of their work is to capture the nuance, joy and responsibility that comes with being a living, breathing Black being. As a curator, Jard’s first program “Samkofa” in collaboration with Film Diary NYC featured genre defying and experimental work by Black filmmakers. Their last program “the land of wood and water” with cinemóvil nyc provided a space to showcase work by Jamaican filmmakers. Jard’s work has been showcased internationally by Atlanta Film Festival, Berlin Short Film Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival, NFFTY, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Out on Film and others. jardlerebours.com
Devon Narine-Singh is a filmmaker, educator and curator. He currently teaches at Syracuse University. @devonarines
Image description: A 4:3 low-res film still depicting a Black woman wearing a pink night gown, with her arms and head facing toward the sky, screaming, with a dark background. In overlaid neon green digital text: “LOVE ME!”