November 7th and 8th, 2015

Hinterlands
By Gina Marie Napolitan

Hinterlands looks at various notions of domesticity, travel, and childlike play and features a small installation of intimate tableaux and slide projections for visitors to explore at their own pace. Miniatures, found photographs, and assemblages of natural materials evoke incomplete, uneasy narratives of haunted houses, alien landscapes, and misinterpreted historical events.

After viewing the installations, visitors will be seated for a screening of recent videos, 16mm films, and 35mm slideshow works by the artist, accompanied by a live singing saw performance by collaborator Beaux Mingus.

Gallery opens for viewing an hour before the screening.

Gina Marie Napolitan is an experimental filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist originally from Brockton, Massachusetts. Her animated films have screened at the Boston Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive in New York City, LA FilmForum, Antimatter Film Festival, Black Maria, and numerous other venues in the United States and abroad. Her paintings, drawings, and collages have been exhibited in numerous galleries and were recently featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal. Gina has also worked as a puppeteer and video designer on several experimental theater productions at REDCAT and Automata. She received her BFA in Film/Video from Massachusetts College of Art and her MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts.

Originally from Bakersfield, CA, Beaux Gest Mingus is a filmmaker whose work focuses on capturing intimate, personal rituals and the emotional resonance of overlooked places. His films have screened at The Canton Palace Theatre International Film Festival, REDCAT, Echo Park Film Center, The Kristi Engle Gallery, Public Space ONE in Iowa City, Exploded View Gallery in Tucson, and Monkeytown in Brooklyn. He has received production grants from Kodak and Fotokem, and was recently an artist-in-residence at Echo Park Film Center. He completed his MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts and works professionally as a video editor. www.beauxmingus.com