DEVON NARINE-SINGH: THE RECOVERY CYCLE
AD HOC #22
Co-presented with PIX FILM

Saturday, October 26 - 7:00pm

PIX FILM Gallery

1411 Duffern Street Unit C

Free Event

Join us for a presentation by Devon Narine-Singh of his recent video work.

Devon Narine-Singh (b. 1997) is a filmmaker, curator, and scholar based in New York. Recently a graduate from the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory.

As curator he has presented several screenings at The Film-Makers Coop, bringing in a diverse programs that mix newer emerging artists with established members of the New York experimental community. As a scholar he has presented a talk at NYU Graduate Student Cinema Studies conference. His work has been exhibited at
Microscope Gallery, The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, and will be in the Wrong Biennale this year.

Program
(All works presented digitally)

There are No Trains in Trinidad (10 min)
A political history of a personal landscape. Weaving interviews with my parents, my hometowns’ bizarre 1980s cult murder and a sense of displacement, I explore what it means to a biracial
American in Long Island, NY.

I woke up in the mud and picked up a camera because of jonas (14 min)
Jonas dies and a ghostly memorial occurs at Anthology Film Archives. I try to get sober and relapsed for 2 years while getting more involved in the experimental film world of New York. The 12 steps are remingage and Jack Smith returns from the dead in a navigation of addiction, recovery, and community.

Who Shall Save Me? (2 min)
An experiment in the possibilities of found footage to make a prayer.

Leave Me Alone and Let me Die (11 min)
Found footage remix of 1980s horror films that examines the feelings of guilt in sobriety and the idea of inner monster but in the end also self forgiveness.

I’ll See You On Dance Floor (Working Title, Estimated Time: 5-10m)
A work in progress meditating on the idea of dance as a form of recovery and political action.

Ad Hoc is a screening collective with no fixed address. This is a mobile screening series, which aims to rethink what an experience of cinema can be, including the spaces in which it can be exhibited. We seek to reposition historical landmarks and buried treasures within the on-going tradition of experimental and other non-commercial modes of filmmaking, drawing on work from Toronto, throughout Canada, and internationally. Within these parameters, we aspire to diversity in programming, as well as to multimedia and interdisciplinary screening events that bring together varied communities.

Ad Hoc = Stephen Broomer, Daniel McIntyre, Cameron Moneo, Madi Piller, Jim Shedden, Tess Takahashi, Bart Testa.

International Screening Program and Artist Talk