the way things are. the way they are going to be. part eight.
March 13th 2026
7:00 doors. 7:30 screening (not punk time)
@ East Window (IN BOULDER)
4550 Broadway
STE C-3B2
Boulder, CO 80304
$15 or pay what you can. No one turned away.
Statement: A screening addressing how our current culture will define and limit the futures available to us.
check out the trailer below!
Title: How to give your best self some rest
Artist: Sebastian Schmieg
Statement: A video tutorial introducing the “aesthetic of detachment”, published as a standalone website. Strategically underperform as a vacuum cleaner robot, smart lock, delivery robot, or AI assistant.
Year: 2021
Origin: Germany
Title: Hardly Working
Artists: Total Refusal / Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
Statement: Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
Year: 2022
Origin: Austria
Title: They/Them
Artist: Juan Obando
Statement: “They/Them” is an introspective video essay in which Juan Obando uses Adobe Stock clips to animate them while keeping their logo watermark. Through this process, the artist manages to have the characters in the clips embody the images’ own “voices” and speak about their nature as stock videos, reflecting on their condition in relation to the “outside world” —the material reality. The piece aims to prompt a reflection on global media ecosystems, cultural imperialism, adversarial dynamics, and the exacerbation of the so-called arsenals of democracy. It also proposes an echoing commentary on the dialectics between images and image-makers, spectators and protagonists, and the ever-thinning lines that divide them, and us.
Year: 2023
Origin: United States
Title: Surveilling a Crime Scene
Artist: Alana Hunt
Statement: Surveilling a Crime Scene examines the materialisation of non-indigenous life on Miriwoong Country— through the town of Kununurra and its surrounds. These threads forge a tapestry of evidence that recognises colonisation not as history but as a continuous and present violence, one that is deceptively ordinary.
Year: 2023
Origin: Australia
Title: Man #4
Artist: Miranda Pennell
Statement: Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.
Year: 2024
Origin: UK
Title: PILE
Artists: Toberg (Toby Auberg)
Statement: Water then food. Agriculture then industry. Old then new. Critical then extra.
Simple to complex. Concrete to abstract. Dirt to clouds. Real to unreal.
Year: 2019
Origin: UK