On the occasion of the Energies exhibition, this film program reflects on the exhibition’s concern with addressing ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political arrangements attached to energy past and present. Presenting a diversity of aesthetic approaches and historical positions, the films explore the politics of energy production in various global contexts and consider community organizing responses to socially inequitable, extractivist infrastructures.

Nina Canell and Robin Watkins
Energy Budget
2024
7 minutes 47 seconds, video

Energy Budget highlights the use of female ostrich feathers in the creation of dust-free car manufacturing environments. Showing a car on a slowed-down conveyor belt, the video explores the circulation of material agency and its energetics.

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