"RUN!" (2020) by Malic Amalya
Shot at sites of nuclear development, detonation, industry, tourism, and activism, RUN! examines the ways that ideologies of war structure landscapes, community rituals, cinematic technology, entomology, pandemic management, and even notions of LGBTQ liberation.
Malic Amalya is a moving image artist, working across 16mm film, 35mm slides, and video. His work is situated between non-linear avant-garde traditions, the oppositional and self-reflective aesthetic considerations of queercore, and an intersectional feminist politic centered around prison abolition. Malic’s films and videos have screened in festivals, museums, and queer bars across the world, including Festival Les Merveilles (Paris), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Light Field Film Festival (San Francisco), MIX Copenhagen, EXiS Festival (Seoul), the Transgender Museum of Art and Herstory exhibition at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, “Buttcocks” at Club SchwuZ in Berlin, “Trqpiteca” at Danny’s in Chicago, and “Other Stranger” at The Stud in San Francisco. Malic Amalya is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and 16mm Filmmaking at Emerson College.
Trans Experimental, a group exhibition of experimental film and animation by trans artists in the greater Boston area, launches at The Sidewalk Video Gallery on February 14, 2021. The show, organized by Boston LGBTQIA+ Artist Alliance (BLAA), introduces a new artist each week. Experimental film deals with perception and abstraction and uses non-commercial techniques including photochemical abstraction, hand-painted animation, digital glitch work, and found footage collage. In this show, trans artists explore and find solace in practices of experimental film that are based on the re-collage, the tactical, the degradation, and the reclamation. Each work lends itself to reflection on the trans body and identity.