Tiffany Sia

[often thinks of what Pavle Levi said in response to her recent artist talk at Stanford of her film "A Child Already Knows": "And what the child really knows when it comes to images already is that images are, to use your own terminology or language from the film, images are pried up, open only once. And it’s that initial experience of encountering a film or films for the first time or any kind of powerful image at a young age, very impressionable age, which then, throughout the rest of your life, you hopelessly and without success try to recreate, because these images will never, ever strike you the same way. And that’s what I think this film is also about. And this is why I think it’s so beautiful that the personal narrative and personal history is fed through this problematic of impossible to recreate encounter with images. And thus the endless substitutes. Cartoons, puppets, puppetry, locomotion. There’s something very uncanny about all this because they are and are not working as substitutes." This summer, she is currently reading James C. Scott's "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States"]
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    TIFFANY SIA: FIVE FILMS, Only on OVID
    OVID.tv – online

    Past

    2025

    5X5_KJ ABUDU & ADAM HAJYAHIA \ COMBAT BREATHING: AESTHETICS OF AGITATION, Group Screening
    99CANAL, New York, New York

    SONGS OF MEMORY AND FORGETTING: FILMS BY ASSIA DJEBAR, INAS HALABI, ONEYKA IGWE, TIFFANY SIA, Group Screening
    Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY

    CINEMA IS OF THE MIND ANYWAY: FILMS BY JORDAN LORD AND TIFFANY SIA, Duo Screening
    Walker Cinema, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

    ART & ART HISTORY: FRAMES OF REFERENCE SERIES, TIFFANYS SIA, Solo Screening
    University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

    KARMAPALA + A CHILD ALREADY KNOWS, Group Screening
    Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand

    THE SOJOURN, Screening and Artist Talk with Tiffany Sia, Sow-Yee Au, moderated by Timmy Chen
    Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

    2024

    SHORTS: SWEET FANTASY BB, Group Screening
    San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA

    LANDSCAPE CINEMA, PGM 2: SKY HOPINKA, TIFFANY SIA, AND NIKA AUTOR, Group Screening
    Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

    DREAMWORLDS, CURATED BY NASRIN HIMADA, Group Screening
    Walker Cinema - Minneapolis Movie Theater (Walker Arts Center), Minneapolis, MN

    WAVELENGTHS 2: RIDE THE WAVE, Group Screening
    TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON

    DISSOLUTIONS 2024: LONGEST WAY ROUND, SHORTEST WAY HOME SCREENING EVENT AT DUBLIN PORT, Group Screening
    AEMI, Dublin, Ireland

    HEAVY METAL CONTAINERS, Group Screening
    Spectacle, New York, NY

    WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT... DECOLONIAL MEMORIES, Group Screening
    Leiden Shorts, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    THE SOJOURN + A STONE'S THROW, Group Screening
    Open City Documentary Film Festival, London, UK

    ON AND OFF-SCREEN IMAGINARIES: A FILM AND VIDEO PROGRAM, Group Screening
    Dia Chelsea, New York, NY

    MEMÓRIAS SEM RENDIÇÃO, Group Screening
    Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto, Portugal

    CINEMA AFTER PLACE: TIFFANY SIA AND PAVLE LEVI IN CONVERSATION, Group Screening
    MoMA Doc Fortnight, New York, NY

    2023

    SHORTS PROGRAM 2, Group Screening
    Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milkwaukee, WI

    METAMORPHIC CITIES, Group Screening
    Videoex, Zürich, Switzerland

    AN EVENING WITH TIFFANY SIA, MODERN MONDAYS, Solo Screening
    MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York, NY

    SCREEN TAKEOVER, Group Screening
    e-flux, New York, NY

    Group Screening
    International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, New York, NY

    WINDOWS, Group Screening
    World Film Festival of Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

    2022

    TIFFANY SIA: DO NOT CIRCULATE, CONVERSATIONS AT THE EDGE, Solo Screening
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    SHORTS: INT. ECHOPLEX, Group Screening
    San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA

    CURRENTS PROGRAM 8: TIME OUT OF MIND, Group Screening
    New York Film Festival, New York, NY

    WHAT RULES THE INVISIBLE, Group Screening
    Linea d'Ombra Festival, Salerno, Italy

    WAVELENGTHS 2: CRISIS OF CONTACT, Group Screening
    TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, CA

    DRIFTING CLOUDS, Group Screening
    Flaherty Film Seminar, Hamilton, NY

    COMBINED PROGRAM: WHAT RULES THE INVISIBLE, Group Screening
    Open City Documentary Film Festival, London, New York

    2021

    COMBINED PROGRAM: WHAT RULES THE INVISIBLE, Group Screening
    Open City Documentary Film Festival, London, UK

    CURRENTS: CRITICAL MASS, Group Screening
    New York Film Festival, New York, NY

    SHORTS: HONG KONG, HONG KONG, Group Screening
    San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA

    DO NOT CIRCULATE, Group Screening
    Double Exposure Film Festival, online

    DO NOT CIRCULATE, Group Screening
    Linea d'Ombra Festival, Salerno, Italy

    2020

    NEVER REST/UNREST, Group Screening
    Prismatic Ground (Presented by Maysles Documentary Center and Screen Slate), New York, NY

    CRISIS NEWS IS A GENRE FILM, Solo Screening
    MoMA Doc Fortnight, New York, NY

    TIFFANY SIA: NEVER REST/UNREST (RETROSPECTIVE), PROPOSITIONS, Retrospective & Solo Screening
    Berwick Film and Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK

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