Amie Siegel, Black Moon | 2010 | 20min | 16mm/HD | USA
Amie Siegel’s Black Moon is a partial remake of Louis Malle’s 1975 film of the same title. Set in the post-apocalyptic landscape of foreclosed housing developments, Siegel’s Black Moon is a present-day science fiction without dialogue. The houses and empty streets become protagonists to Siegel’s silent narrative. In her adaptation, a highly stylized troop of female soldiers wanders through abandoned neighborhoods, pushed on by gunfire and the bloody aftermath of battles. Siegel’s Black Moon conjures references to wars ‘here and elsewhere,’ suggesting alternate endings to the heroic return of US troops from campaigns abroad, pondering the places soldiers protect, and the parallel economies of gender, images, and warfare. As the film paces through the empty architecture of financial speculation, the work forces the audience to confront the uncanny ruins of the just-past, and our own future that never was.
Friday June 24 7pm
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Born 1974 in Chicago, Illinois, Amie Siegel lives and works in Berlin, New York and Cambridge, MA. She received her BA from Bard College and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Siegel has exhibited widely, most notably at the Walker Art Centre, The Hayward Gallery, 2008 Whitney Biennial and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Currently Siegel teaches in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
