Dani (Leventhal) ReStack Sat, Apr 22, 2017, 8:30 pm

Dani (Leventhal) ReStack

Sat, Apr 22, 2017
8:30 pm

A video still of person putting a rock in their mouth.
A video still of person putting a rock in their mouth.

Dani Leventhal, still from Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, co-directed with Sheilah Wilson, 2017. High-definition video, color, sound (work in progress). Courtesy the artist and Video Data Bank, Chicago

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Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater

Dani (Leventhal) ReStack’s films make palpable the emotional life of disparate animate and inanimate worlds. Using both scripted and found source material, ReStack creates complex layers of meaning through montage, rendering micro-narratives of mortality and desire.

April 22: 6 and 8:30 pm
Screenings

April 23: 3 pm
Screening followed by a conversation with Dani (Leventhal) ReStack, Sheilah Wilson, co-director of Strangely Ordinary this Devotion, Jared Buckhiester, co-director of Hard as Opal, and Aily Nash, co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial Film Program              

Dani (Leventhal) ReStack (b. 1972), Platonic, 2013
Dani (Leventhal) ReStack and Jared Buckhiester (b. 1977), Hard as Opal, 2015
Dani (Leventhal) ReStack and Sheilah Wilson (b. 1977), Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, 2017


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