Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin, Janie Geiser, Annapurna Kumar, Yaloo Lim, Wendell McShine, Julie Murray, Charlotte Pryce, Abigail Severance
Unfolding Visions
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- $12*
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- Film/Video
- Season
- Fall 2025
- DATE
- OCT 27
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- MON, 8 PM
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- USA
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About
Unfolding Visions presents recent film, video, and moving image work from CalArts faculty working across different mediums and approaches: Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin, Janie Geiser, Annapurna Kumar, Yaloo Lim, Wendell McShine, Julie Murray, Charlotte Pryce, and Abigail Severance.
Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin’s Nearest Neighbor (2023) stages a timely inquiry into the relationship between technology, humans, and consciousness. Janie Geiser’s Sudden Tourniquet (2025) questions how we see when the boundaries between scientific representation and Cartesian understandings of our humanity break down. Annapurna Kumar creates a micro-speculative history on consumerist image-making in Mirror Products Catalog (2023). Yaloo Lim’s Shininho Docking (2025) consolidates familial and communal history into a story of an elder pirate whose existence questions sentience. Wendell McShine’s observational film, XING PED (2025), is both about his new home and his internal world. In ESTUARY (tidal) (ebb) (2025), filmmaker Julie Murray creates space to understand our ways of seeing. Charlotte Pryce approaches Anthropocenic uncertainty with a metaphorical approach in The Gloaming (2025). Abigail Severance’s film YOU RECALL THE NIGHT TRAIN (2025) contends with our apocalyptic anxieties with intimacy and care.
This program includes an introduction by Program in Film & Video faculty Irina Leimbacher and a post-screening conversation with film programmer Jheanelle Brown and the filmmakers.
Presented in English and Portuguese with English subtitles.
Please note: Unfolding Visions contains strobe lights and flashing lights.
Geiser gives voice to the reaches of the unconscious, pointing to the abandoned splendor that exists prior to the rules of society and language.
—
Holly Willis, RES Magazine
The Jack H. Skirball Series is organized by Jheanelle Brown.
about the artists
Rebecca Baron is a Los Angeles-based media artist known for her lyrical essay films which explore the construction of history, with a particular interest in still photography and its relationship to the moving image. Her work has screened widely at international film festivals and media venues including documenta 12, International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, Toronto Film Festival, London Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Flaherty Film Seminar, Viennale, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her films have received awards at the San Francisco, Black Maria, Montreal, Leipzig, Athens, Onion City, KIN, Sinking Creek and Ann Arbor Film Festivals. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has taught documentary and experimental film at Massachusetts College of Art, Harvard University, and since 2000 at California Institute of the Arts.
Janie Geiser is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes performance, film, installation, and art. Geiser’s work is known for its recontextualization of abandoned images and objects, its embrace of artifice, and its investigation of memory, power, and loss. Geiser is a Guggenheim Fellow, a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, and a Creative Capital awardee. Geiser received the 2023 Stan Brakhage Vision Award, presented to a filmmaker “whose work pushes the limits in avant-garde and experimental filmmaking.” She was recently awarded the 2025-26 Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island. Geiser’s films have been screened at the National Gallery of Art, Microscope Gallery, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, MOMA, Pacific Film Archives, the Centre Pompidou, the Salzburg Museum, San Francisco MOMA, LACMA, the Sharjah Biennial, and NY Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, and Hong Kong International Film Festival. Geiser’s films are in the collections of MOMA, The NY Public Library’s Donnell Media Center, CalArts, and BAMPFA. Her film The Red Book is part of the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The Academy of Motion Pictures Archive has selected her work for preservation, and The Fourth Watch (2000) was selected by Film Comment as one of the top ten experimental films of the past decade.
Early adopter. Web pioneer. Connoisseur of emerging technologies. Appreciator of systems. Collector of analog devices. Teacher of technology, high and low. Douglas Goodwin is a technologist investigating the mechanisms by which language and other technologies mediate our perception of reality. Goodwin’s work has shown at many venues including the Toronto International Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive, Ambulante, London Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Frankfurt Film Museum, SIGGRAPH, REDCAT, the Orphans Film Symposium, the Courtisane Festival, Eyebeam, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. “Lossless,” a collaboration with Rebecca Baron, was the first digital work to enter the collection of the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY.
Annapurna Kumar is an American animator and filmmaker. Her work is largely inspired by the complex histories of image capture and simulation technologies, and their ties to consumerism, enforced normativity, and the built environment. The work manifests as diaristic, playful fantasies that oscillate between scenes of intense planning and improvisational digressions. Themes of fertility, ecological utopia, the structures of memory, repressed sensuality, and a preoccupation with plastic recur throughout Annapurna’s short films, which are fast-paced, nonlinear, and at times totally abstract. Her work blends CGI and drawn animation, 16mm filmmaking techniques, and camera-stand stop-motion. She occasionally makes artist books, tapestries, ceramics, and interactive work. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at UCLA DMA and an adjunct faculty member in the CalArts EA Department.
Annapurna is an alum of the Yaddo and Film Farm residencies. Her work has been featured by AQNB, Pitchfork, Dublab, Create Digital Motion, and Edge of Frame, and has shown in festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Zagreb, The Walker Art Center, London International Animation Festival, Eyeworks, Light Field, GLAS, Experimenta India, and others.
Irina Leimbacher is Visiting Faculty in the School of Film/Video at CalArts. She came to CalArts subsequent to leaving a tenured position in New Hampshire and working as a film curator at San Francisco Cinematheque, both for over a decade. She holds a PhD in Film and Media Studies from UC Berkeley, and her research/writing focuses on nonfiction and experimental moving images, and particularly on testimony in film. She has presented papers at numerous SCMS and Visible Evidence Conferences; she has curated programs of film for the Pacific Film Archive, SFMOMA, MoMA, Cinematheque Ontario, I-House in Philadelphia, Amherst College, Brattle Theatre and festivals such as SF International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. Her articles have been published in Discourse, Film Comment, Bright Lights Film Journal, Release Print, and Millennium Film Journal, as well as in edited books on Bay Area experimental film, on ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner, and on early sound documentary.
Yaloo Lim is a South Korean visual artist working with digital media. She earned a BFA and MFA in video art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been selected for fully funded international residencies such as Zer01ne and the Asia Culture Center in Korea, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, Western Front and La Bande Video in Canada, and the Headlands Art Center and Bemis Studio Art Center in the US. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and screenings around the world. She was awarded a Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Scholarship by Video Data Bank and won a Gold Prize in visual arts from the AHL Foundation in New York. She is a recent Gyeonggi MoMA & IBK Young Artists Award Winner and completed a solo exhibition at Gyeonggido Museum of Art in Korea. She is a faculty member in the department of Experimental Animation in the School of Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts. She completed her residency at 836m in San Francisco in the fall and at Pier 2 Art Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, as part of Geofiction in the summer of 2024.
Stitching together illusive dreams, memories, and city observations into a visual code of enigmatic imagery, Wendell McShine’s murals, installations, drawings, animations, and canvases disclose multilevel narratives that haunt the mind and provoke intimacy into self.
His group and solo shows span Europe, China, Mexico and the United States: Kunsthal Kade Museum, NL (“Who´s More Sci-Fi Than Us”), Liverpool Biennial, UK (“Art Connect- Liverpool”), Real Art Ways, USA (“Rockstone & Bootheel”), Museum Of Modern Art, MEX (“Art Auction Mexico Vivo”), Museo De Bellas Artes, VEN (“In The Kingdom Of Dreams”).
His work has been published in the contemporary art books by Gestalten Press Germany Walls & Frames: Fine Art from the Streets and Nuevo Mundo: Latin American Street Art. He has lectured at Royal College of Arts and been awarded the prestigious Thomas Reuters Foundation Fellowship in the UK. He is a recipient of the Belle Foundation Grant in the US, and has been a Liverpool artist in residence at the Bluecoat. unded by Atlantic LNG, T&T for his ongoing community art project “Art Connect. His animations have been awarded and screened at several international film festivals such as Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and Portobello Film Festival. He has presented at TEDx Youth at Facebook Headquarters. Wendell McShine comes by way of Trinidad and Tobago, lived in Mexico City for a number of years, and now resides in the United States.
Julie Murray is an artist, film and video maker. Her film and digital works have been exhibited at national and international venues including the New York Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the London Film Festival, the Flaherty Film Seminar, and the Whitney Biennial, and her films are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art and are archived at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive in Los Angeles.
She has presented her work at venues including REDCAT (LA), Anthology Film Archives (NY), Media City Film Festival (ON), Pacific Film Archives (CA), Los Angeles Filmforum, the San Francisco Cinematheque, Cinematheque Ontario in Toronto and at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin, and her early super-8 films were selected for a National Film Preservation Foundation Award in 2014.
Charlotte Pryce has been making films and optical objects since 1986 and her works have screened throughout the world. She has taught experimental film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Academy of Art (San Francisco), and Kent Institute of Design (Canterbury, England), and is currently a faculty member at California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles). She is a graduate of the Slade School of Art, University College London (BFA) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA). In 2013 the Los Angeles Film Critics Association honored her with the Douglass Edwards Award for best experimental cinema achievement. In 2019, she was honored with career retrospectives at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Bozar (Brussels), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the [S8] Mostra de Cinema Periferico.
Abigail Severance makes films and other images about nostalgia, history, and queer thought. Her work has screened at Sundance, The Broad, MOCA/LA, Studio Museum of Harlem, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Wexner Center, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Curta Cinema Rio, Women in the Director’s Chair, London LGBT Festival (BFI Flame), MIX, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, among other festivals & venues. She has received a Fulbright, a Film Independent fellowship, and most recently a CalArts Research & Practice Grant for We the Devoted, a near-future narrative about borders and labor, made collectively with its ensemble cast. Her essay film Acadia, about nationalist nostalgia and queer origin stories, is currently in post. Raised in New England and Nova Scotia, Abigail lives in Los Angeles where has been faculty at the CalArts School of Film/Video since 2009 and served as Dean 2019-2024. She holds a BA in cultural studies from Hampshire College and an MFA in film directing from the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television.
list of films
Nearest Neighbor (Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin, 2023)
Sudden Tourniquet (Janie Geiser, 2025)
Mirror Products Catalog (Annapurna Kumar, 2023)
Shininho Docking (Yaloo Lim, 2025)
XING PED (Wendell McShine, 2025)*
ESTUARY (tidal) (ebb) (Julie Murray, 2025)*
The Gloaming (Charlotte Pryce, 2025)*
YOU RECALL THE NIGHT TRAIN (Abigail Severance, 2025)*
*World Premiere
