Please join us in welcoming visiting filmmaker Rudy Gerson to the Whammy! microcinema for a screening, performance and talk, followed by a Q&A.

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Rudy Gerson (b. 1993, Las Vegas, NV, USA) is an artist and educator working in a practice that channels the force of erotics as expressed in memory culture, social life, and historical inquiry. Recent works explore overlaps in collective demonstration and intimate desires, basketball and dancing, visibility and loss. Devotion and the Insatiable is an artist talk that will include screenings of recent work on 16mm and digital video and a discussion of influences and directions of past and ongoing research.

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‍The Broadwood Suite, 2023 10’ of 22’

A musical suite of speculation with the history of a professional Jewish basketball team and the site where they’d host dances after their games between 1933 and 1947. Visual album and experimental ethnography, latent desires.

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FlAG: Act 1, 2022 3’

Flags, flagging, and hailing on bridge.

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Hands on Earth (Tuesday May 14 2024), 2024 10’

A day of collective demonstration in Philadelphia. Shot on 16mm, the film focuses on hands as a unique agent and index of the wanting body – a poetic technology of expression, exertion, and touch.

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~45 min

+ Q&A

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7:30 PM DOORS

8 PM SCREENING

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This event is donation based, please use any ticket link to RSVP for free, prepare for a suggested donation of $5-10 at the door.

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Presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.

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Special thanks to Erica Sheu.