Doors 7:30p
Program 8:00p

UnionDocs
352 Onderdonk Ave
Ridgewood, NY

We are delighted to invite multimedia artist Sara Sjölin to UnionDocs for an evening of film and conversation. Sara will present two bitingly humorous short films that traverse the often unrecognized territory between the stories we choose to tell and the absurdities of everyday life. Through surreal scenarios and a witty visual language, Sara emphasizes the unremarkable in a remarkably engaging way.

My Angelic Puss (Min Englefisse) begins as an intimate and unorthodox portrait of a cat, and transforms into a conversation about the murky, complex processes that surround the film’s own making. The film wanders through realms of routine, poetry, and the ethics of art.

News from New York follows an artist’s quest to understand the narrative of a large scale film production from the position of an extra on set.

Join us as we delve into the amusing and eclectic ordinary through the eyes and observations of the brilliant and hilarious Sara Sjölin!

Program

News From New York

2024

In News from New York, an artist is requested to be an extra shooting video inside a large scale film production replica of the American Museum of Natural History constructed in Brighton Beach. Not knowing the plot of the movie, she eventually meets the main character and attempts to figure out more about the narrative

Min Englefisse (My Angel Pussy)

27 mins, 2024

Min Englefisse begins as an intimate and unorthodox portrait of a cat, and transforms into a conversation about the murky, complex processes that surround the film’s own making. The film wanders through realms of routine, poetry, and the ethics of art.

Program Duration: 57 mins

Bios

Sara Sjölin (1991) is a Swedish/Swiss multimedia artist based in Copenhagen. Sjölin graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2018 and her main practice revolves around comedy and storytelling. She works with humor, tragedy, and sign-reading, taking her starting point in her own life and experiences of love and relationships with both people and animals. Sjölin’s work process is characterized by a literary mapping of these relationships and stories in a very direct way where a balance is formed between poem, fiction, and reality. Sara Sjölin has shown her work and performed in a broad range of contexts, such as sports bars, art institutions, galleries, film festivals, and a sports arena.

LJ Frezza makes videos by recutting existing movies and television shows. He also works as an editor, most recently on How To With John Wilson and Doom Scroll. He lives in New York City.