Doors 7:30p
Program 8:00p

UnionDocs
352 Onderdonk Ave
Ridgewood, NY

We’re delighted to invite you to an evening of live cinema that brings together four performative film works that explore the interplay of light, sound, and the physical act of projection itself. Through an alchemy of moving images, overhead liquids, dual projections, and mirrors, the artists embrace the unpredictable nature of film as a living, evolving medium. From the shifting reflections of REDNOWWONDER to the elemental bodies in Elixir of Life, each piece works within self-imposed constraints, uncovering new forms through repetition, phase shifting, and improvisation. The push and pull between nature and human intervention plays out across the screen, inviting us to question where control ends and spontaneity begins.

Featuring artists Genevieve HK, Rachael Guma, and Sarah Halpern—whose practices span film, sound, and live performance—this program is a testament to collaboration and experimentation. Guma and Halpern’s Invisible Scissors, an experimental duo rooted in NYC’s underground film community, brings together theremin, effects, electric guitar, and voice, channeling their ongoing creative partnership into sonic and visual improvisation. Meanwhile, Genevieve HK and Guma, working as A Clockface Orange, craft mesmerizing liquid-light performances inspired by the ephemeral, experiential ethos of Fluxus and 1960s expanded cinema. Whether capturing the vastness of a whale’s journey or the unseen forces shaping our daily experience, these performances challenge the fixed frame of cinema, embracing the act of projection as an ever-changing event.

Program

Elixir of life by Genevieve HK

Approx. 12min, 2025, overhead liquid light and video projection, sound, found glass

Humans are some majority percentage of liquid – a solution of blood, sweat, tears, and other bodily fluids, plus whatever things we slather onto ourselves in an effort to retain life-giving moisture. This semi-improvisational piece explores the non-solid state of one’s evolving sense of personhood through liquid light performance, manipulated video, and audio recordings.

REDNOWWONDER by Rachael Guma

Approx. 10min, 2016, Super 8, projector, mirrors, glass, liquids

A composition in 4 movements for 2 Super 8 projectors, mirrors and glass organ. REDNOWWONDER is a play between mirrors, reflections, and the elements that govern us all.

Blue is for water, cold, refreshing, still.

Purple is for air, clouds, birds on window sills. 

Yellow is for flowers, sunlight, trees, and earth. 

Red is for fire, metal, flames, rebirth.

White Fang, Black Tooth by Sarah Halpern

Approx. 15min, Double projection for 16mm and overhead projector

The title refers to the giant dog characters from the Soupy Sales show, who only ever appear as huge arms, with suggested bodies out of frame, grunting, gesticulating and sometimes throwing pie. This piece deals with the influence of the world outside of one’s immediate vista. What part of our daily experience might be considered ‘in’ or ‘out’ of frame? This performative piece integrates recorded images of nature in terms of wildness and domination, with a physical performance with my hands in the room.

W-w-A-a-V-v-E-e-S-s
by Genevieve HK, Rachael Guma & Sarah Halpern

Approx. 15 min, 2025, 16mm dual-projection

Dual-projection of whale watching filmed by Rachael Guma in Sheepshead Bay. Live sound by Invisible Scissors. Liquid projection by Genevieve HK.

Program Duration: 52 mins

Bios

Genevieve HK is a media archivist and artist working with liquid light projection, video, and found footage. Her work varies in focus, from improvisational and interpretive visual accompaniment for music and other sound to introspective experiments projecting and musing about everyday life substances. She has performed at Rockaway Film Festival’s Annex Cinema, The Stone, Microscope Gallery, FourOneOne, Orphan Film Symposium, the Parish Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art: Dreamlands Expanded, Union Pool, Secret Project Robot, and in vacant NYC parking lots.

Rachael Guma is a light and sound artist who works with liquid light projection, Super 8 film, Theremin, turn-table manipulations, live Foley, collage, and stop motion animation. Her work often explores motion studies, deconstruction, the interplay of sound and image, improvisation within constraints, and serendipitous moments, while her fondness for stop motion animation allows her to convey unconventional narratives infused with humor and lightness. Her work has been shown at AXWFF, Anthology Film Archives, Ambient Church, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Echo Park Film Center, Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Index Festival, The Kitchen, Long Island Children’s Museum, Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI), Microscope Gallery, Mono No Aware, Morbid Anatomy Museum, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), Northern Flickers, Orphans Symposium, Participant Gallery, Paul Klee Museum, Planet Money Live, RX Gallery, Roulette Intermedium, San Francisco Cinematheque, Transient Visions, UnionDocs, Unseen Cinema, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (in alphabetical order).

Sarah Halpern works with light, voice, performance, electric guitar, objects and paper. She is largely focused on collage as a means to explore her own thought process. Her work has been presented at Anthology Film Archives, Experimental Intermedia, NYFF’s Views of the Avant-Garde, The Kitchen, Microscope Gallery, The Whitney Museum of American Art: Dreamlands Expanded, The Museum of Moving Image and Centre Pompidou among others. She currently plays electric guitar as part of a duo with Rachael Guma (theremin & effects), called Invisible Scissors. Halpern lives in Queens, NY.