This summer, the National Museum of the Aftermath is presenting a four night film screening series. Join us for the first screening of the season on June 15th at 6pm, featuring Cauleen Smith's Songs for Earth and Folk (2013) and Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1983).

Location: Oxy Arts on York (4757 York Boulevard)

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June 15th at 6pm

Songs for Earth and Folk 11m (Cauleen Smith)

Made in 2013, this short by Cauleen Smith is composed entirely of 16 mm and Super 8 found footage and is structured like a blues song, with a live-improvised electro-organic soundtrack created by Chicago-based band the Eternals. Earth sings a melancholic tale of disappointment. Folk fail to listen until it’s too late. We End. 

Born in Flames 80m (Lizzie Borden)

A blistering rallying cry issued loud, clear, and unapologetically queer, Lizzie Borden’s explosive postpunk provocation is a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a revolution that supposedly transformed the country into a democratic socialist utopia. In reality, racism, sexism, and economic inequality are as virulent as ever, and a band of radicals—led by Black, lesbian, and working-class women—join forces to fight back. Told through a furiously fractured, kinetically edited flurry of television news broadcasts, pirate radio transmissions, agitprop, and protests shot guerrilla-style on the streets of New York City, Born in Flames is a shock wave of feminist futurism that’s both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it.

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June 23, 6pm

The Four Elements of Cinema (Excerpt: Fire & Water) Dakota Higgins

TYCOON Charlotte Zhang 

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July 14, 6pm 

Space Traders Reginald Alan Hudlin 

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One William Greaves