This screening highlights the work of Jonathan González and Nic Kay, featuring short films that delve into themes of Black gestural virality and the mediated gaze. Their works incorporate distinctive framing devices and blend various performance tactics with filmic histories. The event will be followed by a Q&A session with both filmmakers, Jonathan González and Nic Kay, providing an opportunity for deeper insight into their creative processes and the concepts explored in their films.

Imaging Improvisation, PGM 3: Choreographies of Spectacality: Jonathan González & Nic Kay with Jonathan González (Filmmaker), Nic Kay (Filmmaker)

This program showcases how Nic Kay and Jonathan González explore the portrayal of Blackness and the mediated gaze through their art. Kay's work, like "WAIT, WAIT, WAIT (RENEGADE)" and "THRU IT ALL," uses repetition and glitched visuals to examine how Blackness is sensationalized on screen. González manipulates spectacality through animation and performance, creating pieces such as "BLUES TIME" that chronicle the body's relationship with geography.