LOVE LABOR | Lindsay L Benedict /// Screening and Djset
27 Junho 2025 18h00
LOVE LABOR | Lindsay L Benedict
Screening and Djset
Screening and Djset
27 June at 18:00
Free entry
Free entry
«Will things happen? They will. But what sort of things? I also don't know. I am not trying to build in you a distressed and ravenous anticipation: the truth is, I don't know what is in store for me. I have a restless character on my hands, one who slips away from me at every moment, daring me to retrieve him.» - Clarice Lispector
LOVE LABOR is a short film essay, based on texts from Clarice Lispector and shot on Super8 film when Benedict was pregnant with her second child as a solo parent. It is a 15 minute meditation on the complexity and beauty of work exhausted by love -- failed romantic love, ever heart-breaking parenting love, the passing of time in the present-tense, the labor of birthing art, and the intensity (and rupture) of intimacy. It is the kind of work that builds riches without making any money. Benedict uses her film camera in single takes and repetitive daily engagements in an effort to press on the durability and immediacy of life.
To complement the video premiere, the screening will include a series of shorter Super 8 and 16mm film works by Lindsay Benedict, transitioning into a DJ Dance Set by the artist.
To complement the video premiere, the screening will include a series of shorter Super 8 and 16mm film works by Lindsay Benedict, transitioning into a DJ Dance Set by the artist.
BIO: Lindsay Benedict is an Adjunct Professor in the Fine Arts department at Parsons, The New School in New York City, USA. She received a BA from Williams College, an MFA from the University of California at Berkeley, and was an artist resident at the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP), the Antonio Ratti Foundation, and Zaratan -- Arte Contemporânea. Benedict has shown in Europe at Centrale Fies, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Le Confort Moderne, Le Cyclop; and in New York City at JACK HANLEY Gallery, Bose Pacia, and PS 122, and performed at Danspace, The Chocolate Factory, The Tank, Dixon Place and Movement Research. And, while she was living in California, her work was also exhibited/screened at the Berkeley Art Museum, New Langton Arts in San Francisco, and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA.