In February, CAMS Assistant Professor Laska Jimsen was on the panel “I Am Not a Filmmaker: The Films of Marcel Broodthaers” at the Walker Art Center where she screened an excerpt of her video, Deer of North America, a collaboration with Jason Coyle. The panel was comprised of members of Walker’s Bentson Critical Group: local scholars, artists, and filmmakers who meet monthly to discuss the Ruben/Bentson Critical Collection and program the Walker’s Mediatheque. Laska, with three other members of the BCG, also programmed the playlist Infrastructures (premiered February 2, 2017).
Recent screenings of Laska’s 16mm work include Notes from Film Camp (2015) and Miss Rose Fletcher: A Natural History (2008) at the Weisman Art Museum last July and 8/21 6:22, the first in a series of in-camera edits in collaboration with Jason Coyle, at the Cellular Cinema series “Chronos: Measured Time” program last September. Beaver Creek Yard (HD Video, 2013) continues to screen, most recently at the Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA), Unexposed Microcinema (Durham, NC), and the moving.media@brown Symposium (Brown University, Providence, RI).
Upcoming screenings of Laska’s work include the program “From the Interior” at the Glasgow Film Theatre on May 24 (Beaver Creek Yard and Miss Rose Fletcher) and The Duluth Superior Film Festival on June 3rd (10/9 2:10, collaboration with Jason Coyle). Laska will also conduct a workshop on non-narrative moving image production with Twin Cities filmmakers as part of the festival.