Rubicon Cinema is excited to announce “Mask-Faced Media,” a Minus Plato screening in collaboration with sair goetz and Layla Muchnik-Benali.  This film screening and reading introduce, accompany and expand Minus Plato a.k.a Richard Fletcher’s book No Philosopher King: An Everyday Guide to Art and Life under Trump. The selection of short films explores the politics of representation and disguise, embodied experiences of travel and belonging, and Indigenous knowledge and its mediation, as part of an unfinished curriculum and ongoing process of unlearning.

Richard Fletcher a.k.a. Minus Plato and Layla Muchnik-Benali will personally attend the screening, discuss the broader context of the project, and hold Q&A.

MASK-FACED MEDIA program:

Part One: No Philosopher King

sair goetz, Hold Yr Tongue, video, color, sound, 2016-2020

Abbe Leigh Fletcher, Railwaywomen, video, color, sound, 2018, 5 min

Cameron Granger, This Must Be the Place, video, color, sound, 2018, 5 min

Rheim Alkadhi, The Eye Theatre Closes Its Doors, and Opens Them Again, video, color, sound, 2015, 12 min. Commissioned by Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art

Andreas Angelidakis, Iolas, video, color, sound, 2014, 9 min

Part Two: Unseen at documenta 14 

Ross Birrell, Criollo, video, color, sound, 2017, 7 min. Commissioned by documenta 14

Eva Stefani, Manuscript, video, color, sound, 2017, 12 min.

Part Three: The Great Unlearning

Nathan Pohio, Ngā Ringa Toi o Tahu, video, color, sound, 2017, 12 min. Video courtesy of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu and Te Māngai Pāho.

Sky Hopinka, Fainting Spells, video, color, sound, 2018, 11 min

Caroline Monnet, Tshiuetin, video, b/w, sound, 2016, 11 min

Mark Salvatus, Blue Moon, video, color, sound, 2019, 10 min

Layla Muchnik-Benali, waving goodbye to the sun, video, color, sound, ongoing, length varies