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Triple Canopy Presents: Standard Deviations

Mar 22—Mar 28, 2024
    Part of
  • BAM Film 2024

Programmed by Yasmina Price with Rachel Ossip and Jesse Trussell


Continuing a years-long collaboration between BAM and Triple Canopy, and guest-curated by Yasmina Price, this series highlights a range of daring filmmakers and artists who offer experiments in cinematic circumvention, whether of censorship, house arrest, law, decorum or expectations. Overturning known forms, they misappropriate the salacious tropes of exploitation films—and their funding—to level social critiques, or use the norms of soap operas and telenovelas as cheeky vehicles for sharp political satire. A banned filmmaker hands off the camera, then smuggles the cinematic goods inside a cake; hazy images enable access to illicit touch; a documentary is taken apart from the inside; and a sledgehammer threatens a TV monitor. Through unexpected sabotage and unpredictable loopholes, these films provoke, play, question, and go off script in search of something beyond standard deviations.

Leadership support for
BAM Access Programs provided by
the Jerome L. Greene Foundation

JL Greene

Leadership support for
BAM Film provided by
the Ford Foundation and
The Thompson Family Foundation

  • Film

    Ganja and Hess

    Fri, Mar 22, 2024

    Ganja and Hess

    Fri, Mar 22, 2024

    Bill Gunn’s seductive and radical Trojan Horse turns the vampire film into a meditation on eroticism, Afro-diasporic identities, religion and power.

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    Ganja and Hess

    Fri, Mar 22, 2024

    Bill Gunn’s vampire film treats eroticism, Afro-diasporic identities, religion and power.

  • Film

    The Student Nurses

    Fri, Mar 22, 2024

    The Student Nurses

    Fri, Mar 22, 2024

    This exploitation masterpiece is an unexpectedly humanizing portrait of four young nurses navigating their careers and love lives in the 70s, with surprising political commentary.

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    The Student Nurses

    Fri, Mar 22, 2024

    This exploitation classic follows four young nurses navigating their careers and love lives.

  • Film

    Media Burn: 1970s EAI Video Experiments

    Sat, Mar 23, 2024

    Media Burn: 1970s EAI Video Experiments

    Sat, Mar 23, 2024

    Six 1970s EAI video works are experiments in troubling the materiality and ideology of the image through techniques that include montage, explosions, sledgehammers, mirrors and talking to the camera.

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    Media Burn: 1970s EAI Video Experiments

    Sat, Mar 23, 2024

    Six EAI video works are experiments in troubling the materiality and ideology of the image.

  • Film

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

    Sat, Mar 23, 2024

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

    Sat, Mar 23, 2024

    Trailblazing director William Greaves inverts and democratizes the filmmaking process by offering his film crew the chance to decide exactly what kind of movie they want to make.

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    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

    Sat, Mar 23, 2024

    William Greaves’ subversive, verité experiment about the act of filmmaking itself. 

  • Film

    The Wandering Soap Opera

    Sun, Mar 24, 2024

    The Wandering Soap Opera

    Sun, Mar 24, 2024

    Started by Chilean experimental master Raúl Ruiz in 1990 and completed by his wife in 2017, this dreamy, interconnected series of vignettes is a gloriously political sendup of the telenovela—and Chile itself.

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    The Wandering Soap Opera

    Sun, Mar 24, 2024

    A gloriously political sendup of the telenovela—and Chile—from auteur Raúl Ruiz.

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    You Can Touch But Don’t Look: The Films of Maryam Tafakory and Edward Owens

    Sun, Mar 24, 2024

    You Can Touch But Don’t Look: The Films of Maryam Tafakory and Edward Owens

    Sun, Mar 24, 2024

    Haunted textures, fragmented silhouettes, and veiled intimacies dance across the cinematic practices of experimental artists Maryam Tafakory and Edward Owens.

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    You Can Touch But Don’t Look: The Films of Maryam Tafakory and Edward Owens

    Sun, Mar 24, 2024

    A program of textural, fragmented experimental shorts by Maryam Tafakory and Edward Owens.

  • Film

    This is Not a Film

    Mon, Mar 25, 2024

    This is Not a Film

    Mon, Mar 25, 2024

    Shot on an iPhone and smuggled into France for its debut at Cannes, this clandestine documentary shows the day-to-day life of director Jafar Panahi while on house arrest in his Tehran apartment.

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    This is Not a Film

    Mon, Mar 25, 2024

    Shot on an iPhone, director Jafar Panahi documents his life while on house arrest in Tehran.

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    Work It: Video Art on Club Culture

    Tue, Mar 26, 2024

    Work It: Video Art on Club Culture

    Tue, Mar 26, 2024

    This program brings the party—and the hangover—to the big screen with a selection of videos that thoughtfully consider the club as a site of pleasure, communion, and criticism.

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    Work It: Video Art on Club Culture

    Tue, Mar 26, 2024

    This program thoughtfully considers the club as a site of pleasure, communion, and criticism.

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    R 21 AKA Restoring Solidarity

    Wed, Mar 27, 2024

    R 21 AKA Restoring Solidarity

    Wed, Mar 27, 2024

    Drawing on militant pro-Palestine films of the 60s, 70s, and 80s that swept through Japan, this hybrid work explores how two different peoples can feel connected through images.

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    R 21 AKA Restoring Solidarity

    Wed, Mar 27, 2024

    This hybrid work of pro-Palestine films explores the power of images in forming connections.

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    Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

    Wed, Mar 27, 2024

    Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

    Wed, Mar 27, 2024

    A low-budget declaration of world war, this grainy, handheld propaganda film follows Japan’s Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Lebanon as they prepare for revolution.

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    Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

    Wed, Mar 27, 2024

    Two resistance militias prepare for revolution in 70s Lebanon.

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    Multisensory Alchemies: Daïchi Saïto + Konjur Collective

    Thu, Mar 28, 2024

    Multisensory Alchemies: Daïchi Saïto + Konjur Collective

    Thu, Mar 28, 2024

    This alchemical convergence pairs moving image works from experimental Japanese filmmaker Daïchi Saïto with live performance by Baltimore-based jazz musicians Konjur Collective.

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    Multisensory Alchemies: Daïchi Saïto + Konjur Collective

    Thu, Mar 28, 2024

     The works of filmmaker Daïchi Saïto and musicians Konjur Collective alchemically converge.

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