A screening of new works by Queer|Art|Mentorship Film Fellows Daniel Chew and Natalie Tsui. Daniel Chew’s two films First and Negative Two, made in collaboration with Micaela Durand, depict young people as they navigate their lives and relationships from connections they make online. These stories investigate the nature of desire and the tensions that arise when we attempt to connect with others. Natalie Tsui’s You, Or Perhaps Someone Else merges personal video archives, documentary footage, and filmed recreations of a fight between Tsui and their then-lover to explore the limits of documentary evidence, the complexities of recapturing reality through narrative film production, and the latent capitalist and propagandist drives of the moving image.

The artists will be joined by filmmaker Laura Parnes for a short discussion following the screening.

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This event is part of the 2018-2019 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual, curated by current Fellow Jeanne Vaccaro and titled “How do we know what we need you to know: Intimate access and collective care.” The exhibition will present across multiple formats and locations (including The LGBT Community Center, Bureau of Generel Services – Queer Division, Movement Research, and La MaMa E.T.C.) new work by the graduating Fellows of the 2018-2019 Queer|Art|Mentorship program: J. Bouey, Candystore, Daniel Chew, Xandra Clark, Sarah Creagen, Cristóbal Guerra, Russell Perkins, Ripley Soprano, and Natalie Tsui. ⁣Learn more at www.queer-art.org/qam-annual

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About Daniel Chew

Daniel Chew is an artist who often works collaboratively, with Micaela Durand in film and Tin Nguyen in fashion, to create and discover queer moments of community. He has a forthcoming project with Tripe Canopy at the RISD Museum as CFGNY and a film commission with Micaela Durand to premiere at the Shed, Summer 2019 and has also shown at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MoMA PS1, 47 Canal, and White Columns among many other institutions. He is the recipient of a 2014 Rhizome Commission with Micaela Durand and was the Fall 2018 BijlmAIR resident in Amsterdam with Tin Nguyen. He graduated with a BFA in Film and Television from the Tisch School of the Arts in 2010.

About Natalie Tsui

Natalie Tsui is a Brooklyn-based queer artist and filmmaker whose work investigates the links and ruptures between mass culture, collective memory, and personal narrative through visual storytelling. Utilizing autoethnography, performance, found footage appropriation, and narrative film production, Tsui works to redress the problematic legacy of cinema as a medium that erases, distorts, and totalizes the experience of the “other”.

Tsui holds a B.A. in Film Studies and English from UC Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University. Their work has screened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Frameline, Museu de Arts Moderna of Rio de Janiero, Shapeshifters Cinema, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. They were a Flaherty Seminar Fellow, NYFF Artist Academy Fellow, Queer Art Mentorship Fellow, and a Princess Grace Film Awardee.