After Hours Film School: Suneil Sanzgiri
Monday, February 20, 2023, 7–9:30pm
After Hours Film School: Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Lacuna Observatory
Sofía Gallisá Muriente, filming in Laguna Anones. Photo: Emilia Beatriz.
About the workshop
This workshop will take place in person, at Wendy's Subway.
Date: Thursday, April 27 2023
Time: 7-9:30pm EST
Capacity: 15 participants
Cost: $25–$75 (Sliding scale)
No one turned away for lack of funds
Register here*
*No prior filmmaking experience required
After Hours Film School is a workshop series devoted to new currents in cinematic practice. The series invites moving-image makers to share new work or work-in-progress and engage with participants in a seminar-style discussion around methodology, production, and key questions animating their work. After Hours is organized by Kirsten Gill and Rachel Valinsky.
About the artist
Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a Puerto Rican artist whose research-based practice resists colonial erasures and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. Her work deepens the subjectivity of historical narratives and contests dominant visual culture through multiple approaches to documentation. She employs text, image, and archive as medium and subject, exploring their poetic and political implications. Sofía has been a fellow of the Smithsonian Institute, Annenberg Media Lab at USC, and the Flaherty Seminar, and participated in residencies such as Alice Yard (Trinidad & Tobago), FAARA (Uruguay), and Fonderie Darling (Montreal). She has exhibited in documenta 15, Kassel; the Whitney Museum, and Queens Museum in New York; ifa Galerie and Savvy Contemporary in Berlin; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico; and galleries like El Kilómetro and Embajada. From 2014 to 2020, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local, dedicated to fostering knowledge exchange and transdisciplinary practices. She is currently a fellow of the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative and the Cisneros Institute at MoMA.