Sis, I Don’t Know: Remembrance a Summer Flower, International Portal of Artificial Maximum Results

Floor 3, Theater

As part of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, this film program organized by guest curator Zackary Drucker brings together an intergenerational group of filmmakers whose work explores love, desire, and loss. The program features films by Miranda Haymon, Aron Kantor, Gbenga Komolafe and Tee Park, Nyala Moon, Edward Owens, Penelope Spheeris, and Chanelle Tyson and will be followed by a conversation between Zackary Drucker, Miranda Haymon, and Nyala Moon. Conversation guests are subject to change.

Programming Schedule

Edward Owens (he/him; born 1949 in Chicago, IL; died 2010 in Chicago, IL)
Remembrance: A Portrait Study, 1967. 16mm film transferred to video, color, sound; 5:36 min. 

Penelope Spheeris (she/her; born 1945 in New Orleans, LA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA)
I Don’t Know, 1970. 16mm film transferred to video, black-and-white, sound; 20:11 min.
This film is also available to stream from home on MUBI.

Gbenga Komolafe & Tee Park
(Komolafe: they/them/he/him/she/her; born 2000 in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Park: she/her; born 1999 in Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA)
Winter Insect, Summer Flower, 2021. Digital video, color, sound; 11:02 min.

Miranda Haymon (born 1993 in Boston, MA; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY)
Sis, 2023. Video, color, sound; 12 min.

Aron Kantor (he/him/they/them; born 1978 in San Francisco, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles CA)
Interdimensional Pizza Portal, 2023. Video, color, sound; 4:36 min. 

Nyala Moon (she/her; born 1992 in New York, NY; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY)
Dilating for Maximum Results, 2023. Digital video, color, sound; 14:10 min.
This film is also available to stream from home on MUBI.

Chanelle Tyson (they/them; born 1989 in Greensboro, NC; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA)
Artificial, 2023. Digital video, color, sound; 12 min.