IAS Faculty and Alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics program will be presenting during this Experimental Film Screening, taking place at the Grand Illusion Cinema in the U District. The event is a free screening of work by local filmmakers, and is curated and hosted by MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics alum Eric Acosta. There will be presentations by Eric Acosta (MFA 2020); Sky O'Brien (MFA 2022); Simon Wolf (MFA 2021); IAS faculty member Joe Milutis; Serena Chopra, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University; Vanishing Seattle; and Vanishing Seattle in collaboration with Converge Media. For safety, the venue requests that movie-goers wear masks. ************* Eric Acosta is a poet and visual artist whose work explores the macro and microsmic form. Sky O'Brien is sometimes a door, other times soup creator, but mainly, a poetry, fiction and lit. non-fict writer from Perth. He is also a correspondent for Dispatches Magazine. Simon Wolf is a poet, teacher and gardener. His work explores a body in space, not always his, but sometimes, and these sentient object's historical and aesthetic weight. Joe Milutis is a media artist and writer who works with experimental sound and radio, video and new media, exploring experimental narrative poetics through hybrid. Serena Chopra is a writer, dancer, filmmaker, soundscape designer and a visual and performance artist whose work presents narratives of identity, family and sociopolitical perspectives. Vanishing Seattle documents the displaced and disappearing institutions, small businesses and cultures of Seattle. Converge Media provides content and local news specifically for the Northwest’s Black community. Their aim is to provide the black community authentic representation and equitable political access. The Grand Illusion Cinema (206.523.3935) is an independent cinema on the Ave. that shows foreign and revival films. They recently had free screenings of Eraserhead, The Lure, and Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. The theater was opened in 1970 by Randy Findley, it was saved from extinction and remodeled in 1997 with help from the Northwest Film Forum. |