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.

Jettes Dinerskole is a comedy played out between a guest teacher and the evening school students from Fyn’s Laboratory for Young Art where the two collaborate to create a hodgepodge narrative of teenage antics and unorthodox educational methods. We follow a script meeting and go on location (Jette’s Diner), where the recordings become, simultaneously, the students’ short film and Sara Sjölin’s work; a film about a workshop on making film.

Join us as we delve into the amusing and eclectic ordinary!

Program

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.

Jettes Dinerskole (Jette’s Diner School)

30 mins, 2024

Jettes Dinerskole is a comedy played out between a guest teacher and the evening school students from Fyn’s Laboratory for Young Art where the two collaborate to create a hodgepodge narrative of teenage antics and unorthodox educational methods. We follow a script meeting and go on location (Jette’s Diner), where the recordings become, simultaneously, the students’ short film and Sara Sjölin’s work; a film about a workshop on making film.

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.