‘here and there, now and then’ at Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY, 2025
‘here and there, now and then’ will be screened on Saturday April 12 in Brooklyn, NY during a night of performance as part of Between a Frame and a Soft Place: A Hybrid Exhibition Exploring the Digital Body.
The week of events examines the digital body, how it moves, morphs, and manifests across both tangible and intangible spaces. Taking place April 11-17 at Millennium Film Workshop, this hybrid exhibition unfolds across multiple forms: a traditional film screening, a gallery installation, a zine release and reading event, and a performance program. Curated by Michèle Saint-Michel, these elements invite viewers to peer into a world where physical and digital realities collide, questioning where the human ends and the digital body begins. Spanning film, performance, and installation, the exhibition explores how technology reconfigures identity and presence, proposing the body as an evolving assemblage shaped by digital interfaces, ecology, and shifting power structures. In the liminal space between a frame and a soft place, the screen not only frames our perception but dissolves into the shifting terrain of our digital bodies.
More details below.
The video features dancers Rion Taylor and Wyeth Walker with music by Jesse Stewart.
Featured Artists and Events
The gallery installation features works by Lisa Crafts, Sapphire Goss, Ellen Gilbert, Audrey Coombe, Fiona Jacobson-Yang, Jorge Suárez Quiñones Rivas, indexthumb, Madeline Rose Finkel, and Soo Hyun Lee.
The screening program showcases films from international artist filmmakers alongside works from the London-based Digital Bodies Collective, presenting an array of perspectives on embodiment, representation, and identity in the age of infinite screens. Featured artists include Andrea Hackl, Caroline Monnet, Catron Booker, Celune Acheampong, Dan Robert Lahiani, Denise Iris, Désirée Jung, Erica Schreiner, Ima Iduozee, Jessica Parnell, Lauren Dana Smith, Lili White, Melissa Bruno, Myriam Rey, Noe Kidder, Olivia Burgess, Parham Ghalamdar, Péter Lichter, Pierre Yves Clouin, Rana San, Raphaël Bessette, Riley Tu, Sara Wylie, and Yue Hua.
The second night of performances features a live audiovisual performance by LA-based artist Jenna Caravello, a durational piece by London-based performance artist indexthumb, choreography by London-based choreographer Aleth Berenice, and Brooklyn-based movement artist Mackenzie Rawls. The evening also includes five performance films that further blur the lines between the physical and the digital, including work by Chanika Svetvilas, Cheryl Pagurek, Jocelyne Moreau, Noah Rosa, Sarah ElMasry, and Schuyler Dragoo.
On the exhibition’s third day, a limited-edition zine created exclusively for Between a Frame and a Soft Place and released by Bad Saturn Media will be officially launched. The zine features visual art and poetry from more than 20 poets, artists, and writers. The event includes a special poetry reading by Vincent Katz, Kate Mohanty, Kevin Chen, Matt McKinzie, Jaime Yuan, and others. The zine includes work by Alexandra Mauriello, Andrea Hackl, Anton Lushankin, Christina Bauernfeind, Clara Chacón, Collette Rayner, Fran Hayes, Gabriela Milkova Robins, Gel Press, Ginny Darke, indexthumb, Jamie Yuan, Kevin Chen, Lauren Dana Smith, Matt McKinzie, Olivia Burgess, Rachel Sun E., Riley Tu, Riverstone, Vincent Katz, and Zara Joan Miller.
Exhibition Details
Between a Frame and a Soft Place takes place April 11-17 at Millennium Film Workshop, offering audiences a multi-sensory experience that bridges flesh and circuits, memory and data. Each element, from the moving images on screen to the spectral illusions within the space, explores how the body exists simultaneously within and beyond the frame. A limited number of zines will be available, providing deeper insights into the artists’ processes and the themes at the heart of the exhibition. The gallery exhibition remains on view April 14-17, from 1-5 PM at 167 Wilson Ave., Brooklyn, NY.
About the Curator
Michèle Saint-Michel is an artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores power, feminist ecologies, somatic memory, and the intersections of grief, longing, and digital embodiment. Saint-Michel has curated and exhibited internationally, crafting spaces where moving images become sites of intimacy, resistance, and transformation. Her curatorial practice foregrounds experimental film, immersive installation, and the ways technology reshapes identity and presence.
About Millennium Film Workshop
Since 1966, Millennium Film Workshop has been a cornerstone of the experimental film movement, offering resources, workshops, and screening opportunities to filmmakers pushing the boundaries of cinema. Building on its storied history, Millennium continues to cultivate powerful new voices in independent film and remains an influential hub for creative collaboration.
Millennium Film Workshop website
About Bad Saturn Media
Bad Saturn Media is an independent publishing and arts platform dedicated to amplifying experimental voices in literature, visual art, and beyond. With a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, Bad Saturn supports artists who challenge form and convention, creating space for radical storytelling and aesthetic exploration. From artist books to critical essays, hybrid zines to experimental music, the press fosters projects that exist at the margins of traditional publishing, building a more care-full world.
