Artist in person!

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For the past two decades, the New York based visual artist Erica Schreiner has been working exclusively in the medium of VHS to produce a body of intimate and performative work that transcends time, technology, and prevailing trends. Schreiner’s gaze is personal and provocative, her color palette soft and subdued, yet her work does not shy away from hard truths. Painterly and confessional, Schreiner’s films are gestures to connectivity, reaching out with tactile sensuality. In An Invitation to Love, viewers are beckoned into the artist’s private world (Schreiner’s apartment), witnesses to a queer exploration of beauty and ecstatic consumption of its conventions. Through precise camera work and gut-wrenching examinations of desire, femininity, and heartache, Schreiner’s kaleidoscopic and vast inner monologue is laid bare, welcoming viewers to share in the dreamlike vulnerability and take part in its often startling catharsis. 

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Featuring the West Coast Premieres of:

Birth [9.5min, 2022]

Stargate [4min, 2023]

Blood Run Free by The Johns (Music Video) [7min, 2018]

Hold [7min, 2024]

Smoke (with an original score by Toby Goodshank of The Moldy Peaches) [7.5min, 2025]

Somewhere [4min, 2021]

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+ more!

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A Limited Edition run of Erica Schreiner’s sophomore feature length film,
The Special People will be available for purchase on Video Cassette & Blu Ray through distributor Art Label. 

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A panel discussion / Q+A will follow the screenings.
Moderated by Lucé Tomlin-Brenner

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Erica Schreiner has exhibited her work extensively throughout the course of her career both in the United States and internationally. She has completed more than 100 video works of performative art, two feature films, and several music videos. In 2021, Schreiner received a New York City Artist Corps Grant for The Special People, and her films have screened at SHOWstudio, Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, MIX NYC, Millennium Film Workshop, and MoMA.

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Please join us for this retrospective spanning twenty years of experimental, and fiercely independent work!

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dir. Erica Schreiner, 2005 - 2025

United States, Digital projection

79 mins‍

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Sunday, 7/13

7:00 DOORS

8:00 SCREENING

9:30 PANEL / Q+A

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Presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.