Thanks to everyone who came out last night for José Antonio Sistiaga's mind-bending ...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren... (1968-1970) on the largest screen in the Southeast at @offthewall725.bsky.social! We're running it back tonight at 8:30pm—FREE!
Gregory Zinman
@gregzinman.bsky.social
Media scholar/curator/critic—associate professor, Department of Film and Media, Emory University. Curator, Off The Wall @ 725 Ponce Author of Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts (UCPress).
Don't miss the chance to, as the artist puts it, “take the blindfold of rationalism off and enjoy the unknown”!
A sample from José Antonio Sistiaga's hand-painted film, screening at OTW next weekend, 5/15+5/16, 8:30pm, free!
Thrilled to see the pub of this wonderful book, feat. my new essay “Illusions, of Necessity”: Paul Sharits’ Quantum Affinities," in which I offer one of the first attempts to apply quantum theory to the study of experimental film via A. Michelson's writing + the works of Sharits.
Friday! I'll be in conversation with Tom Dixon following LAST EXIT, a screening of his films. 1pm, White Hall, @emorycollege.bsky.social. Then it's the launch of @offthewall725.bsky.social's 2026 season with shorts from Micah Stansell + the Atlanta Film Festival! 8:30pm, @atlantabeltline.org. Free.
Ready to launch! Join us on the @atlantabeltline.org this Friday and Saturday at 8:30pm to kick off the new season of @offthewall725.bsky.social with the Atlanta Film Festival and Micah Stansell!
NYC! On Saturday, 4/18, FILM LOVE's @andyditzler.com and I will be at the @movingimagenyc.bsky.social to present EARTHLY DELIGHTS, a program of large-format experimental films. Hope to see you there! Tix: altru1282.sky.blackbaud.com/1282/tickets...
Atlanta! Don't miss this amazing screening of @nastysilents.bsky.social at @plazaatlanta.bsky.social on Tuesday, with scholars/curators @hennefem.bsky.social + @laurah.bsky.social in person! www.plazaatlanta.com/.../breaking...
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Delighted to be hosting M. Hennefeld and L. Horak for @nastysilents.bsky.social "Breaking Plates + Smashing the Patriarchy" at @plazaatlanta.bsky.social on April 7! Tix: plazaatlanta.com/movie/breaki... Drs. Hennefeld + Horak will be giving a free talk @emorycollege.bsky.social, 4/8 (see flyer)!
Thanks to ArtsATL for previewing @offthewall725.bsky.social's live drawing show this weekend, featuring the talents of William Downs and Bryan Collins! 8pm, Fri+Sat, always free. Located at 725 Ponce de Leon on the @atlantabeltline.org—above Kroger on N. Ave Bridge. www.artsatl.org/the-atlanta-...
A clip from @peterburr.bsky.social's COLLECTIVE MONUMENTS (2022), commissioned for @offthewall725.bsky.social and screening as part of NEW DIRECTIONS, this Friday and Saturday, August 15+16! www.facebook.com/events/11853...
Come join us at @offthewall725 August 15+16 for the newest of the new in moving image art with NEW DIRECTIONS! www.facebook.com/events/11853...
The future is now at @offthewall725.bsky.social! Join us Aug 15+16, 8:30pm on @atlantabeltline.org for NEW DIRECTIONS—work by: @libby_heaney_ @johnsanborn707 @peterburr.bsky.social @takeshimurata and @tokymegz @joelsilverman.bsky.social @wheresaddie.bsky.social @rachel_maclean_studio @jenstark
Next Friday and Saturday (6/20+6/21), 9pm— @offthewall725.bsky.social returns! The Atlanta premiere of Bruce Conner's masterpiece of the Bikini Atoll atomic tests CROSSROADS (1976)! Come join us on the @atlantabeltline.org for the best in experimental film and video from around the world!
Tonight! @offthewall725.bsky.social @ Atlanta Contemporary is excited to present acclaimed artist Kristan Woolford in conversation with curator @gregzinman.bsky.social to discuss K!n€t!c Dr£am$, Woolford’s installation currently on display in AC's Lecture Hall. 6pm, free. Tix: givebutter.com/g1Cp3F
Sunday, 4pm! Join us at the Atlanta Contemporary as @offthewall725.bsky.social presents a LIVE projection performance by Roger Beebe! FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS is FREE and open to the public. Thx to @emorycollege.bsky.social's Hightower Fund and the Department of Film and Media!
Thrilled to be presenting a LIVE projection performance by @rogerwarren.bsky.social as part of @offthewall725.bsky.social at Atlanta Contemporary! On Sunday, April 6th, 4pm, Beebe will perform his work FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS. Free. Thanks to @emorycollege.bsky.social's Hightower Fund!
I'm not in this picture, but I've joined this band! Thrilled to be making my Flashlight Faces debut next week at Boggs, Thurs. 3/20, w/Uneven Lanes, Dirty Holly, and Catch These Hands!!! Come rock with us. We'll be on around 9:30pm, but you should check out all of these bands.
Check out @analog_detox's monumental video installation, K!n€☥!¢ Dr£am$ (2025), part of offthewall725.bsky.social at Atlanta Contemporary! Visit Thursday-Sunday, 11am-8pm. Admission is FREE. Made possible by @emoryuniversity's Arts and Humanistic Inquiry initiative.
A peek at @alysondenny.bsky.social's fantastic PHOTON MOTION pieces for @offthewall725.bsky.social, currently installed in Atlanta Contemporary's Chute Space! Made possible thanks to Emory University's Arts+Humanistic Inquiry initiative. Visit Thursday-Sunday, 11am-8pm. Admission is FREE.
I’ve curated a few of the installations for @offthewall725.bsky.social at Atlanta Contemporary for its Spring 2025 Exhibitions. The opening is tomorrow, so please stop by and check out the fantastic work on display by Alyson Denny, Kristan Woolford, and Micah + Whitney Stansell.
Off the Wall is back for 2025! Kicking off with a collab next week w/Atlanta Contemporary for its Spring Exhibitions, including the amazing Alyson Denny! Many more artists and special screenings will be announced soon...https://atlantacontemporary.org/events/winter-2024-exhibition-opening-2
This week at Los Angeles Filmforum: a screening of Mark Levinson's THE UNIVERSE IN A GRAIN OF SAND. Leo Goldsmith and I had the pleasure of working on the film as archival producers. Mark and the amazing Kate Balsley will be in attendance! www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/win...
Experimentations 19: The Universe in a Grain Sand - LA Filmforum
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Excited to be presenting this work at the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) @maastrichtu.bsky.social on Thursday! Thanks so much to Claartje Rasterhoff for the invitation.
Had the opportunity to speak with the wonderful LoVid about their amazing career, generative media, Web3, community in media art, and more for the latest issue of LEONARDO @mitpress.bsky.social. 📺 🎹 💻🎛 direct.mit.edu/leon/issue/5... Many thanks to Helena Shaskevich for the invitation!
Thrilled to have my new essay on video art in '80s NYC nightclubs in the latest issue of JCMS! "Fugitive Video" will be the first chapter of my new book, PUBLIC SCENES. Big thanks to eds @caetlin.bsky.social, Bo Ruberg, + Liz Ellcessor! muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
Delighted to make my feature debut over at @criterion.bsky.social, writing about sex, reproduction, and labor w/r/t AI in the movies. Thanks to Will Noah for the opportunity and the judicious edits!