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Doors 6:30pm, screening 7pm, followed by discussion
Cameron A. Granger, SLAY THE GOBLIN!!, 2025. Single-channel video (still). 15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Cameron A. Granger’s practice draws on video games, magic, and Black ancestors to imagine liberatory alternatives to violent civic power structures. Join us at The 8th Floor on April 22 to see his three recent films presented together for the first time, followed by a conversation between the artist and Doreen St. Félix, writer and critic (The New Yorker).
This program is part of our ongoing Sight/Geist series in support of local emerging film and performance artists, organized by Charles de Agustin. All of our events are free and open to the public with RSVPs encouraged. Info on accessing our space can be found here. Email us with any questions.
Program, 47’ (descriptions courtesy of the artist)
Before I Let Go, 23’, 2022. Five years ago the east side neighborhood of a town called Bad City was leveled by giant monsters called the Titans. A filmmaker hired by the city to document the community's recovery efforts quickly discovers how different that road to recovery can look for a city, and for its people.
Just Below Heaven, 9’, 2025. A pigeon who lives a life of captivity as a test subject of behavioral scientist B.F. Skinner, dreams of freedom and the collapse of empire.
SLAY THE GOBLIN!!, 15’, 2025. Filmed entirely inside of the 2006 video game The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, and inspired by Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, SLAY THE GOBLIN!! tells the story of a newly appointed soldier in the King’s ‘Royal Guard’ who has been tasked with quelling the beginnings of a Goblin Uprising.
Bios
Doreen St. Félix is a writer and critic. Since 2017, she has been a staff writer at The New Yorker. She has lectured at Yale University, Columbia University, Loyola Marymount University and others. She is a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Criticism.
Cameron A. Granger is Sandra’s son & came up in Euclid, Ohio. He likes pigeons, video games, & memes. Lately he's been thinking about how mythmaking and narrative have been used to police the imagination. He’s a lifetime member of MINT Collective, long may it live, and an alum of Euclid Public Schools. Granger is also an alum of the Studio Museum in Harlem AIR program (2021-22) and Skowhegan School for Painting & Sculpture (2017). His film, Before I Let Go, was awarded Best Experimental Film and the Audience Award at the BlackStar Film Festival (2023). Granger has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions at Kate Werble Gallery in New York, NY (2025); No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH (2022); and Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (2018), among others. He has shown in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (2022), The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in Detroit, MI, Jack Shainman The School, Kinderhook, NY (2022), and The Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE (2021). Granger lives and works between Columbus, OH and Queens, NY.
Image description: A still image shot in a mid-2000s video game of two figures, both donning swords, standing on the edge of a sand beach and body of water, with a forest and beautiful sunset in the background.