Chicago Filmmakers, May 10, 2024, 7 pm
New York Film Makers Cooperative Festival
One of my films has been selected for the New York Filmmakers Coop 2022 New Year New Work annual festival streaming for 30 days starting February 9, 2022. On March 19th at 2:00 pm EST there will be a panel discussion about the films. Here is a link to the films: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/newyearnewwork2022
"Confluence," an exhibition of my work at Truckenbrod Gallery in Corvallis, Oregon, is on view through May 29, 2021. This year, momentous in so many ways, has put me in a reflective space. This opportunity to reflect on recurring themes throughout my work has resulted in a coming together of photographs from several distinct series with common threads that include ephemerality and the passage of time.
The Collectif Jeune Cinema in Paris is celebrating its 50th Anniversary, and will be screening a selection of my films in their collection.
“What Am I Doing Here’ will be on program #56 to be screened on March 19, 2022 at 7:00 pm. at the Temporary Cinematheque of the Collectif Jeune Cinema in Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen. If you just happen to be in Paris, stop by an take a look.
I'm delighted to invite you to a live streaming on my films at Microscope Gallery on Monday, November 16, at 6:30 CST / 7:30 EST followed by a Q & A with the audience at 7:45 CST / 8:45 EST. The program will be on view through Thursday, Nov 19th.
You can read a full description on their website: https://microscopegallery.com/jean-sousa-where-are-we-going/
Microscope is a contemporary art gallery in Brooklyn, NY whose focus is moving image, sound, performance and digital art. The gallery was conceived as a place where artists working with time-based arts have the opportunity to present their work in both the white box setting of a gallery and the black box setting of a screening room / performance space.
General admission $8 (Valid through Thursday November 19, 10:30pm ET)
Member admission $6 (Valid through Thursday November 19, 10:30pm ET)
CFA Media Mixer - September 16, 2020
Last fall, I was commissioned by the Chicago Film Archive to create a short film using footage from the CFA collection as part of their Media Mixer 2020. The project pairs three audio and visual artists to create a multi-media piece, utilizing their film archives as source material. Kioto Aoki is the sound artist for the film. Originally planned as a live event to be performed at Constellation in Chicago, due to the present circumstances, it is now part of the Experimental Sound Studio’s Quarantine Concert Series.
This is the world premier of my new film The Mermaid, a digital collage film related to movement, including dance, wrestling, sports, and entertainment with the focus on women in twentieth-century America and the limited options available to them. An excerpt from the Adrienne Rich poem, “Quarto,” provides a narrative thread to the imagery, inviting a feminist interpretation of the performances.
Here is a link to the ESS site to view the event: https://ess.org/esscalendar/tqc-cfa-media-mixer
Crossroads 2020
My Film Poem, The Losing Battle, is currently being screened as part of CROSSROADS 2020, San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival. Originally planned as a live screening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this year the festival is streaming online and free through September 30th.
CROSSROADS 2020 is the eleventh manifestation of San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival. It features 85 works of film and video by 71 artists representing 22 countries and territories presented in 9 curated programs.The Losing Battle is on Programs 6: Theories of Obliscence/erasing the grid. Here is the link to Program 6 and to the entire festival.
http://www.sfcinematheque.org/video-programs/crossroads-2020-program-6/
The theme of Crossroads 2020, Program 6: “Theories of Obliscence” was referenced by David Wilson, one-time experimental filmmaker and founder of the Museum of Jurassic Technology. He explained the term as referring to the process of forgetting and it was central to one of the exhibitions at his museum. With that in mind, the program deals with erasure of memory, blurring of memory and the way there can be such "hauntological" things as memory and nostalgia for things that never existed. If that notion intrigues you, please tune in for the livestreams.
Film Poems & 16mm Shorts
Saturday, October 5, 7:00 PM
Directed by Jean Sousa, 1977-2019, USA, 60-75 min
Independent Filmmaker, Jean Sousa, will present a program of her Film Poems, a series of short digital media works inspired by the poetry of her late aunt along with a selection of 16mm experimental films from the 70's and 80's. The two distinctive bodies of work are linked through the common themes of gender, formalism, and narrativity.
Sousa's films are in the Canyon Cinema Foundation in San Francisco and the Collectif Jeune Cinema collection in Paris. They have been shown nationally and internationally at the National Film Theater in London, the Image Forum Cinematheque in Tokyo, the Funnel in Toronto, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Cinematheque in San Francisco, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Millennium and Anthology Film Archives in New York among other venues.
My film “Swish” was part of Canyon Cinema’s 50th anniversary touring program and screened at multiple venues including the Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, the Speed Art Museum, Louisville Kentucky, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, Microlights, Milwaukee, WI, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY, Anthology Film Archives, New York among others.
Viewfinder, curated by Elin Spring and Suzanne Revy
from the online journal What Will You Remember
One of my Peony Blossoms has been published in “Viewfinder” an online exhibition curated by Suzanne Revy and Elin Spring, creator of the online journal “What Will You Remember.” With many galleries closed, they have launched this fascinating series of themed shows published weekly using poetry and song lyrics to frame the theme for the image selection. Here is a link to this week’s edition “Into the White.”
Photography Without a Lens: Exploring Alternative Processes & Approaches, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, June 17 - July 9, 2021
https://www.riphotocenter.org/photography-without-a-lens-an-exploration-of-alternate-processes/
“When David DeMelim asked me to curate a lens-less photography show at the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art, I thought of my summers teaching photography in Maine, of the use of the photogram, of cyanotypes, of historical processes, of my love of plastic and pinhole cameras, of the world of analog photography that holds me at my core, and of course I said yes.
It was a challenge to whittle the numerous entries down to just fifty or so pictures that showed the magic of alternative ways of seeing and making photographs. There were lumen prints and scanograms and photographs made with some of my most beloved crappy cameras. Pinhole seascapes and dying flowers and the expected and unexpected objects placed on sensitized paper. A collection of possibilities. Endless possibilities. That’s what this show is.” Ann Jastrab, Juror