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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, California) is an award-winning mixed Chinese trans-feminine filmmaker based on unceded Lenapehoking territory commonly known as New York City. Her two most recent short films premiered at NewFest 37 and NewFest 36 respectively, and her films have been screened around the world including EFF Barcelona (Winner, Audience Award), Spectacle Theater, Nitehawk Shorts Festival, Mykonos Biennale, and Roxy Cinema. Her films can be viewed online at The Kitchen and the Otherness Archive. Her epic yet intimate trans-feminist films foreground the power of intergenerational storytelling during ecological collapse, concentrating on queer chosen family, activism and intimacy. She is a 2025 recipient and alum of the Trans Justice Funding Project and the Hazey Acre Artist Residency and has appeared in i-D, CRATER New York Underground Film Journal, and the Gender Reveal Podcast. She received her B.A. in Environmental Studies from The New School in 2023. tempestcreation.com
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 fellowship 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; matronymic maiden name) Bloomstone (b. 1995) is a Puerto Rican/American artist and Hunter College MFA graduate with a BA from Bard College. Bloomstone has presented with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), CultureHub, Hauser & Wirth, Blade Study, Galerie Timonier, Beverly’s, Theater Mitu, The Tomorrow Archive, LMCC, InterAccess, Westbeth Gallery for the Independent Study Program (ISP) exhibition, Essex Flowers, Rhizome, Millennium Film Workshop, CICA Museum, and Hyacinth Gallery, among others. She has been invited to present at institutions including Bard College, Queens College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Recess Art, and the New York Arts Program. Dahlia’s work is also affiliated with the White Columns Gallery artist registry. She is the recipient of the SPCUNY Actionist Grant from the Mellon Foundation, the Master’s Thesis Grant from Hunter College, the Ox-Bow CIP Scholarship, and a New York Community Trust Van Lier Grant. She has participated in programs including the Triple Canopy Publication Intensive, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Theater Mitu, School of Visual Arts, Ox-Bow, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She served as a teaching assistant at Hunter College, a visiting teaching artist at the University of Texas at Austin, and also teaches 3D animation at Ramapo College in New Jersey. At present, she is the teaching Artist-in-Residence at the State University of New York at Oswego, teaching an experimental games course. Dahlia was an Elaine G. Weitzen 2024–2025 studio participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. She lives and works in New York.
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.