Eulogies for Eula
Lishan AZ, Miryam Charles, Tony Cokes, Jacolby Satterwhite, Keisha Rae Witherspoon
Past event
- Price
- $12*
- Genre
- Film/Video
- Season
- Fall 2024
- DATE
- DEC 9
- TIME
- MON, 8 PM
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 70 minutes
- Program
- Download Program Notes (PDF)
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About
Eula Love was killed by LAPD officers 45 years ago in January of 1979. In June of that year, a group of Black women staged a mock funeral in her memory in front of the LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. The archival news footage of the protest is quiet, unassuming, and straightforward, belying deep sadness, resistance, and collective action. Eulogies for Eula is a program of film and video works centering on Black grief, celebration, and memorializing in the context of death and transition. These documentary, narrative, experimental, and hybrid works represent a variety of filmic and artistic practices, all undergirded by the endlessly important action of bearing witness. The program presents a variety of work by multidisciplinary artists Lishan AZ, Tony Cokes, and Jacolby Satterwhite, along with filmmakers Miryam Charles and Keisha Rae Witherspoon.
The program includes a post-screening conversation with Lishan AZ and film programmer Jheanelle Brown.
Presented in English and French with English subtitles.
Please note: Eulogies for Eula contains nudity and mature content.
In Black Celebration (1988) … Cokes’s technical background in analogue videography and documentary photography, his scepticism of either’s claim to truth, is conspicuous.
—
Shiv Kotecha, Frieze
about the artists
Lishan AZ
Lishan AZ is a multidisciplinary artist working in immersive installation, interactive media, photography, and film. She explores themes of home, intimacy, and interiority. Her work revives lost narratives in order to contextualize contemporary issues and discover/recover possibilities for our present condition. Lishan holds an MFA in Interactive Media & Games from the University of Southern California. Her game Tracking Ida was awarded Best Gameplay at Games for Change and the Impact Award at the International Festival of Independent Games (Indiecade). Lishan was the inaugural game designer in residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is currently an assistant professor of Cinema and Digital Media at the University of California, Davis.
Miryam Charles
From Haitian descent, Miryam Charles is a director, producer, and cinematographer living in Montreal. Her debut feature film Cette maison (This House) premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2022, and it has since screened at many festivals, cinematheques, and arts institutions worldwide. Her award-winning work explores themes related to exile and the legacies of colonization.
Tony Cokes
Tony Cokes lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he serves as professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. A solo show of his work is currently on view at Dia Bridgehampton/The Dan Flavin Art Institute through May 2024. Cokes was awarded the 2022-‘23 Carla Fendi Rome Prize in Art and Technology. In 2022, he was the subject of a major survey jointly organized by the Haus der Kunst and Kunstverein in Munich.
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Keisha Rae Witherspoon
Keisha Rae Witherspoon is a Jamaican-American independent filmmaker currently based in South Florida, her birthplace. Her work is driven by interests in science, speculative fiction, and fantasy, as well as documenting the unseen and unheralded nuances of diasporic people. Witherspoon was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film 2020” and a 2022 USA fellow. Her most recent film, T, has screened at BlackStar, Sundance, and Berlinale, where it won the Golden Bear. It closed its festival run at New Directors/New Films and is streaming on The Criterion Channel. She is currently writing a Black sci-fi, which will be her feature directorial debut, set in Opa-locka, Florida. Witherspoon is co-founder of Third Horizon, a Caribbean artist collective whose production work has landed them at Toronto International, Sundance, BlackStar, Sheffield DocFest, and many more around the world. Third Horizon’s flagship Caribbean film festival is hosted in Miami annually, as well as at satellite festivals throughout the Caribbean and the States.
Jacolby Satterwhite
Jacolby Satterwhite is celebrated for a conceptual practice addressing crucial themes of labor, consumption, carnality, and fantasy through immersive installation, virtual reality, and digital media. He uses a range of software to produce intricately detailed animations and live-action films of real and imagined worlds populated by the avatars of artists and friends. These animations serve as the stage on which the artist synthesizes the multiple disciplines that encompass his practice, namely illustration, performance, painting, sculpture, photography, and writing. Satterwhite draws from an extensive set of real and fantastical references, guided by mythology, modernism, contemporary visual culture, and video game language to challenge conventions of Western art through a personal and political lens. An equally significant influence is that of his late mother, Patricia Satterwhite, whose ethereal vocals and diagrams for visionary household products serve as the source material within a decidedly complex structure of memory and mythology.
list of films
“African-American women stage a mock funeral for Eula Love in front of Parker Center in downtown Los Angeles” (1979), KTLA newsfilm footage courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, 3 min.
All The Days Of May (Tous Les Jours De Mai) (2023), 6 min.
dir. Miryam Charles
Black Celebration (1988), 17 min.
dir. Tony Cokes
T (2019), 14 min.
dir. Keisha Rae Witherspoon
Eugene’s Cove [Audio only] (2024), 6 min.
dir. Lishan AZ
Reifying Desire 3: The Immaculate Conception of Doubting Thomas (2012), 17 min.
dir. Jacolby Satterwhite
