16mm film loop exploring the progression of match manufacture from timber to shrink-wrapped package ready for export, coupled with a series of textual interventions pointing to the ability of both capital and the nation-state to legislate and assert the monopoly capitalist’s desire to surpass the power of nature through myth. In collaboration with Benj Gerdes.
“Rewriting History,” Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen, Denmark 2016)
“Radical Footage: Film and Dissent,” Loughborhough University School of the Arts (Loughborough, UK 2012)
“(un)translatability” Casa Vecina, Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, A.C., (Mexico City, Mexico 2012)
“Selections from the Flaherty Seminar” Museum of the Moving Image (Queens, NY 2011)
Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn, NY (2011)
“Kran Film Presents: Berivan Binevsa, Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida, Lasse Lau, Jorge Leon, Sarah Vanagt” 98WEEKS Project Space (Beirut, Lebanon 2011)
“Crisis? What Crisis?” Rotterdam International Film Festival (Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2011)
“What Is To Be Done? Art, Film, Politics” Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France 2010)
Flaherty Film Seminar (Hamilton, NY and New York, NY, 2010)
Migrating Forms Festival (New York, NY 2010)
“Never Very Far Apart” RedCat Gallery (Los Angeles, CA 2010)
“In a Most Dangerous Manner” Spaces Gallery (Cleveland, OH, 2010)