This special edition of From the Archives is curated by series founder, esteemed Faculty Emeritus, Carl Bogner, and features a rare 16mm print of Warren Sonbert’s Carriage Trade. In Carriage Trade, Sonbert interweaves footage taken from his journeys throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the United States, together with shots he removed from the camera originals of a number of his earlier films.

Co-curated by FVANG programming committee members, this edition invokes the absent presence of our beloved colleague and series founder, Carl Bogner, through some of the core works he loved to show in class. From the Archives is an ongoing series curated by MFA candidates in the 51���� Film Department. The curator is invited to program a selection of films around a theme of their choosing from the remarkable Cinema Arts Archive collection, which contains over 400 essential works from the history of experimental cinema.

Peter Rose’s films, performances, and installations delve into the nature of time, space, and perception, drawing on his background in mathematics and structuralist cinema. With a keen interest in language as both form and concept, his work explores concrete texts, political satire, and the absurd. Exhibited globally at MoMA, the Whitney Biennial, and Centre Pompidou, Rose’s art reimagines the boundaries of media and thought.

A screening of animated long shorts by collaborators Yifan Jiang and James J.A. Mercer to be followed by a Q&A. Yifan Jiang Chinese-Canadian, conceptually-driven, project-based artist who works across painting, animation, sculpture, and performance. Her paintings explore her experiences growing up in a world of multiple cultures and languages. Mercer is a New York based artist working with painting, drawing and animation.

“I have a personal interest or collision with everything I use. I’m interested in the world around me. The stuff of everyday life.” Raised in Maine and based in NYC, Wilkins creates moving image works combining conceptual rigor, uncanny observations, and bone-dry wit. From public hearings to mysterious videotapes, his work launches meditations on images, race, Hollywood, and life under late capitalism.