SURVIVING YOU, ALWAYS
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The transcendental promise of psychedelic drugs versus a concrete and violent experience of metropolitan living: these two opposing realities form the backdrop for an adolescent encounter told through still images and written narration.
Surviving You, Always screens as part of Filmmaker in Focus: Morgan Quaintance, on Saturday, June 26 at 1:00 pm.
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About the Director
Morgan Quaintance’s moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including MoMA, New York; Mcevoy Foundaton for the Arts, San Francisco; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, Scotland; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami. He is the recipient of the 2021 Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director at Punto de Vista, Spain, for the film Surviving You, Always (THFF21); the 2020 Best Experimental Film award at Curtas Vila Do Conje, Portugal, and the 2020 New Vision Award at CPH:DOX, both for the film South (THFF21). Over the past ten years, Morgan’s critically incisive writings on contemporary art, aesthetics and their socio-political contexts have featured in publications including Art Monthly, the Wire, and the Guardian, and helped shape the landscape of discourse and debate in the UK. A key reference here is his 2017 text The New Conservatism: Complicity and the UK Art World’s Performance of Progression, available here: https://conversations.e-flux.com
