Directed by Morgan Quaintance
5 Episodes
Wormholes to more wormholes, the continually surprising audiovisual essays of Morgan Quaintance draw incisive connections between the most seemingly disparate of subjects—see how his quietly radical MISSING TIME moves, almost imperceptibly, from a consideration of New Hampshire alien abductions and postwar hypnotherapy to the violent traumas of British colonialism. Complemented by equally intricate sound design, his deft remixing of archival, found, and personal footage results in juxtapositions sometimes witty, sometimes devastating, and always thought-provoking in their insights into race, power structures, history, and memory.
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26:52Episode 1
Another Decade
Episode 1
Directed by Morgan Quaintance • 2018 • United Kingdom
ANOTHER DECADE begins with testimonies and statements made by artists and art historians during the 1994 Institute of International Visual Arts conference “Towards a New Internationalism” to reveal the lack of sociocultural or institutional c...
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15:26Episode 2
Missing Time
Episode 2
Directed by Morgan Quaintance • 2019 • United Kingdom
Through a focus on alien abduction, Cold War history, and Britain’s colonial legacy, MISSING TIME considers the relationship between amnesia, concealed histories, state secrecy, and the constitution of the self.
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South
Episode 3
Directed by Morgan Quaintance • 2020 • United Kingdom
Taking two antiracist and antiauthoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side as a point of departure, SOUTH presents an expressionistic investigation of the power of individual and collective voice. Interlinked wi...
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21:41Episode 4
A Human Certainty
Episode 4
Directed by Morgan Quaintance • 2021 • United Kingdom
The inevitability of separation, loss, and death are explored through an introspective written monologue and a selection of stills, moving images, and written text.
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19:17Episode 5
Surviving You, Always
Episode 5
Directed by Morgan Quaintance • 2021 • United Kingdom
Starring Timothy Leary, Ram DassThe proposed metaphysical highs of psychedelic drugs versus the harsh actualities of concrete metropolitan life: these two opposing realities form the backdrop of an adolescent encounter told through still ima...