Laura Kraning’s moving image work navigates landscape as a
repository for memory, cultural mythology, and the technological sublime.
Exploring absence and the fluidity of time, she evokes liminal spaces of
neither past, nor present, but a landscape of the imagination. Laura’s work has
screened widely at international film
festivals, such as New York, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Antimatter,
Visions du Réel, and Festival du Nouveau Cinema, among others. Laura
currently teaches in the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of
the Arts. Tracing the metaphysical undercurrents of a Southern California landscape
scarred by fire, her film Devil's Gate unearths a subconscious of
the landscape, as the echoes of the past reverberate in the present and infect
our perception and experience of place.
Laura Moriarty lives in the East Bay. Her recent books are Fugitive Notebook from Couch Press, Who That Divines and A Tonalist, from Nightboat, A Semblance, Selected Poetry 1976-2007 from Omnidawn and the novel Ultravioleta
from Atelos. She has taught at Mills College, Naropa University and
elsewhere and is currently Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution.
Jessica Sequeira, originally from California, attended Harvard and
Cambridge, and now lives in Buenos Aires. She has published essays,
stories and translations in The Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of
Books, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Modern Poetry in
Translation, Berfrois, Litro Magazine, Palabras Errantes, The Missing
Slate, Ventana Latina and other publications. Her version of
the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi's short stories will be published
by Dalkey Archive Press later this year, and her collection of Bolivian poetry
is out with Smokestack Books in 2017.
Ben White is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and is host of art and culture show "The People" on KCHUNG radio 1630AM. Take Away Their Victory is
a performance exercise in ancient world curses and binding spells, and
will allow an opportunity for viewers to ostracize a member of the Los
Angeles community for ten years.
