Olympic Efforts

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Lamb, 1964, 18 min.
Iyabo Kwayana, Practice, 2017, 10 min.
Salla Tykkä, Giant, 2014, 12 min.
Santiago Álvarez, Cerro Pelado, 1966, 55 min. Courtesy University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Louis Malle, Vive le Tour, 1962, 19 min.

Program length: 124 min.

Screening on Loop in the Bentson Mediatheque
Wednesday–Sunday, October 30–November 3
Nicole Franklin, The Double Dutch Divas!, 2001, 39 min.
Adam Khalil and Adam Piron, Halpate, 2020, 14 min.
Köken Ergun, I, Soldier, 2005, 7 min.

Astria Suparak’s cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues made accessible through a popular culture lens, such as science-fiction movies, rock music, and sports. Her work as an artist has been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and ArtScience Museum, Singapore. She has curated exhibitions, screenings, and performances for the Liverpool Biennial, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Kitchen, and Expo Chicago, as well as for such unconventional spaces as roller-skating rinks, sports bars, and rock clubs. Based in Oakland, California, Suparak is the winner of the 2022 San Francisco Artadia Award.

Brett Kashmere is a filmmaker, curator, and writer living in Oakland, California. His creative and scholarly practice reframes dominant narratives about sports and illuminates new perspectives and histories. Kashmere’s films and videos have screened at the BFI London Film Festival, Milano Film Festival, Kassel Documentary Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Photography, UnionDocs, CROSSROADS, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. He is executive director of Canyon Cinema Foundation, founding editor of INCITE Journal of Experimental Media, and co-editor of Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! Kashmere holds a PhD in film & digital media from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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