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doors 6:30pm, screening 7pm, followed by discussion
Ayham Ghraowi, Walk Cycles, 2025 (still). 4 min. Courtesy of the artist.
These six films pursue expansive notions of autonomy, survival, and transformation, asking how the body might resist violent regimes of surveillance, medicine, gender, and labor.
Ayham Ghraowi, Walk Cycles, 2025, 4’
Cass Sicherer, SKIN IN THE GAME, 2025, 5’
Tempest Creation, Birth of the Hive Queen, 2025, 9’
Ayden Massey, Dogstar, 2026, 13’
Cristóbal Guerra, Muerde Sin Miedo, 2026, 11’
Dahlia Bloomstone, Does that hurt the fish?, 2025, 11’
Please join us from 6:30pm for complimentary beverages and to view our current exhibition. The screening will begin at 7pm and finish around 8pm, followed by a discussion and Q&A with artists in attendance. This program is part of our ongoing Sight/Geist series in support of local emerging film and performance artists, organized by Charles de Agustin. Some themes may not be suitable for younger audiences.
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About the artists
Working across video and performance, Ayham Ghraowi explores how visibility becomes entangled with the politics of appeal, refusal, and opacity—particularly under the voyeuristic demands of the global image economy. Combining documentary and found footage with live performance and computer-generated animation, his work examines how constructed images, through their absurdity, parody, and artifice, can function as forms of evidence within the unstable conditions of witnessing. Recent projects address CIA programs training psychics for remote targeting, Israel’s expanding surveillance network in the West Bank, and the drone of diesel generators across Damascus, Syria amid its deepening energy crisis.
Cass Sicherer is a multi-media artist squirming around New York City in pursuit of exploring and learning how the body exists in circumstances of upheaval and change. Sicherer’s work samples feelings of deconstruction and reproduction towards a body-spectacle that brings forward visuals of movement and the squirming-grotesque. Sicherer asserts, through visual portraiture, media, and photography, that the body is a place of discomfort and home.
Tempest Creation (b. 2001, San Francisco) is a mixed Chinese trans-feminine filmmaker based on the unceded Lenapehoking lands commonly referred to as New York City. Her macabre yet intimate trans-feminist films foreground the power of intergenerational storytelling during ecological collapse, concentrating on queer chosen family, activism and survival. Tempest's directorial work has screened at MoMA, Spectacle Theater, The Kitchen, Mykonos Biennale and NewFest.
Ayden Massey, M.S., is an interdisciplinary artist and recent graduate of Harvard Medical School’s Media, Medicine, and Health program. Recognized for their narrative research on trauma-literate epistemologies, Massey was awarded a Teaching Assistantship from Harvard College in 2026. Based in New York and Boston, Massey’s creative work spans film, poetry, and sculpture. Their critical media practice interrogates binary systems and the biosocial conditions of sexual citizenship and gynecologic neoliberalism, approaching sexual trauma as a medical hyperobject through which certain bodies are rendered excess, disposable, or clinically illegible. Through processes of medical encryption, their work translates institutional logics of classification and taxonomy into material and moving-image forms, foregrounding the limits of care and clinical recognition. Their debut poetry collection, American Nesting Doll, received dual Pushcart Prize nominations in 2025. Now working primarily with moving-image forms, Massey’s installation and video work has been featured in the Harvard ArtLab, MIT’s Bartos Theater, and the Carpenter Center. aydenmassey.com
Cristóbal Guerra is a Boricua filmmaker, writer, and language justice worker working across experimental cinema and movement-based language access. His practice uses critical fabulation to approach queer mythologies and archives as unstable, un- translated terrains. As an interpreter, he collaborates with queer communities and their allies to build equitable language practices in social justice spaces, grounding both his film and language work in struggles tied to Borikén and its diaspora. He graduated from NY Film Academy in 2008, specializing in Screenwriting and Filmmaking, and holds BFA in Film & Written Arts at Bard College. He was a 2021 Emerge NYC performance fellow, 2017 Culture Push Fellow, a 2018 resident at ACRE Cooperative, a 2018-2019 Queer Art Mentorship fellow, resident at Beta Local. He has exhibited work with Brooklyn Museum, Fuerza Fest, Little Berlin Gallery, Printed Matter’s NY and LA Art Book Fairs, NY Immigration Coalition and more.
Dahlia Colón Bloomstone is a Puerto Rican American interdisciplinary artist and scholar working across video, games, animation, and performance. In her research, she is interested in social value and the technologies and platforms shaped by sex and moral issues, such as the user-generated game-making platform Roblox, where she makes her video games, and in how these systems affect online youth culture. She studies the changing cultural ontology of affective work, specifically sex work, under platform capitalism and uses it as a lens for understanding social structures and culture. In recent years, her work has centered on questions of life, labor, love, and morality during and “after” the value crisis - the COVID-19 pandemic. She received her MFA from Hunter College and her BA from Bard College. She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023 and was a 2024/2025 Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She completed the Triple Canopy publication intensive in 2025. She has presented with Electronic Arts Intermix, Rhizome, Roxy Cinema, Gray Area, Now Instant Image Hall, CultureHub, Hauser & Wirth, and School of Visual Arts, among others, and is affiliated with the White Columns Artist Registry. Her project, Does that hurt the fish? was shortlisted for Creative Capital in 2025.
Image description: A black film still with a small vibrant orange and yellow drawing in the middle, depicting a stick figure walking in animation frames.