Saturday, July 30, 2022 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Double Feature:
Friday, September 9, 2022 Smuggler Mine Film Screening
This cinematic event takes place at Smuggler Mine, an abandoned silver mine on Smuggler Mountain. Three screenings will take place, in and outside the mine. Cauleen Smith will present film projections made specially for the mine’s interior. Aspen Art Museum Curator at Large Anisa Jackson and film scholar, curator, and writer Michael Gillespie will present two film programs next to the mine’s entrance. Jackson’s program unearthed presents a film program that situates the mine as a site of capitalist accumulation embedded within histories of racialization, racialized labor, and settler colonialism. The program is structured around themes of extractive economies, the geophysics of race, and Black/Indigenous geographies. This site- specific program will invite participants to consider how the mine among other extractive practices rearranges geologic formations and forms of subjectivity co- constitutively, as well as the new forms of subjectivity that form in favor of collective liberation. Gillespie’s program Unspoken Dreams of Light gathers together films that pose challenging and exquisite considerations of time, place, culture, and history. In the remapping spirit of Mountain / Time , each film enacts a distinct politics of longing and memory that amends our understanding of film as art and speculation.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Live s (2010) and Memoria (2021) TACAW (Basalt, CO)
In collaboration with TACAW, Carbondale, the Aspen Art Museum presents a rare screening of two of the renowned Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s best-known films, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) and his most recent film Memoria (2021). Apichatpong’s films weave together themes including dreams, the uncanny, queerness, and the presence of ghosts and spirits in the animistic traditions of rural Northeast Thailand. Thursday, August 4, 2022 Together Performance by Korakrit Arunanondchai and Alex Gvojic Korakrit Arunanondchai and artist and director Alex Gvojic present Together , a “ghost cinema” performance taking place in an Aspen tree meadow in the mountains. The artist, in collaboration with members from the local community, will perform an Itinerant Cinema event inspired by the animistic cinematic practices of rural communities in Northeast Thailand. Outdoor or itinerant cinema has been prevalent in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam war, when American troops screened films outside at night in the jungle for American and local audiences. The tradition has continued, and in Thailand, there is a legend that the projectionist is a ghost, and the audience joins the ghost in the forest to watch the film.
Cauleen Smith, site visit to Smuggler Mine, Aspen, Colorado, May 2022.
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