Oct 08 2020
Film Screening and Q&A: Sasha Wortzel (Virtual)

Film Screening and Q&A: Sasha Wortzel (Virtual)

Presented by Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College

The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum and Flagler College welcome Sasha Wortzel as the CEAM Artist in Residence from October 5-15, rescheduled from last spring. There will be a virtual screening of four of Wortzel’s short films, including This is an Address (2020), Somewhere between (2019), Happy Birthday! Marsha (2018), and We Have Always Been on Fire (2018). The screening will be followed by a Q&A between Wortzel and Patrick Moser (Kenan Distinguished Professor of Art).

Born and raised on the coast of southwest Florida, Sasha Wortzel (she/they) is an artist and filmmaker working between New York and Miami. “Blending the archival and the imaginary, her films, installations, and performances map the ways that structures of power haunt and inextricably shape our contemporary landscape.”

Wortzel’s films have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art’s DocFortnight, True/False Film Festival, DOC NYC, BAMcinématek, Blackstar, Berlinale, and Sharjah Film Platform. Her work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign; and SALTS, Birsfelden. Wortzel has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Art Matters, Field of Vision, Queer/Art/Mentorship, and a 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in film/video. Wortzel has participated in residencies including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, Abrons Arts Residency for Visual Artists, Watermill Center, New York; and AIRIE (Artists in Residence in the Everglades), Florida. They are a 2020 studio resident at Oolite Arts, Miami Beach. Wortzel’s film Happy Birthday Marsha! (2018; co-director Tourmaline) won a special mention at Outfest and is distributed by Frameline. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum and Leslie Lohman Museum of Art. She has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, and New York Magazine. Wortzel received an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College.

The CEAM Artist Residency is supported by a grant from the Dr. JoAnn Crisp-Ellert Fund at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida.

Admission Info

Phone: 904-826-8530

Email: jdickover@flagler.edu

Dates & Times

2020/10/08 - 2020/10/08

Additional time info:

Free and open for the public to attend.

Location Info

Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College

48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, FL 32084