Stepping into the frame, 2022, 16mm Still, Lauren Noelle Oliver
Co-presented by The Gowanus Darkroom as part of MONO NO AWARE XVI Cinema Arts Festival
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7:00 P.M. | Doors
7:30 P.M. | Screening and Q&A
Stepping into the frame, a new film by Lauren Noelle Oliver, is an intimate glance into the artist’s paradoxical self-portraiture practice. Best known for her still photographic work, Oliver now turns her gaze to her process. Through the use of a 16mm bolex, the artist has opened her self-portraits beyond the moment of capture, allowing viewers into her unique process. Oliver often meticulously pre-plans each of her shots but, because she must step out of the frame to reset the camera between each image, it is impossible for her to recreate each scene exactly. Viewers are brought to a better understanding of the ephemeral nature of Oliver’s photography and the fluidity and freedom behind her portraits.
Lauren Noelle Oliver is a New York City-based multidisciplinary artist who uses photography, filmmaking and performance to explore her multicultural identity. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from SUNY Purchase. Her photographs have been featured on i-D, Buzzfeed, F-stop Magazine, and The Luupe. Her first monograph, “Temple of the Self”, published by Monolith Editions in 2020, is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lauren works between the Gowanus Community Darkroom and the International Center of Photography where she teaches and helps coordinate educational programming.
MONO NO AWARE is a cinema arts non-profit organization and learning lab based at 33 Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, New York. Established in 2007, MONO is a community of working individuals of commensurate interests concerning cinema, its histories, its practices, its technologies and its possibilities. This is a community broadly appreciative of the cinematic art-form and its variants spanning generations. MONO constitutes a haven and facility for the exploration, practice, exhibition, production and preservation of the cinematic arts. MONO receives year-round support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, Festival partners and patrons such as yourself. Learn more at MONONOAWAREFILM.COM
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