Shadow Kitchen presents ‘Mixtape’ at Whammy! - A program of short narrative, non-fiction, experimental and music video works by the collective of artists that make up the programming body of Shadow Kitchen. Featuring works by Anderson Matthew, Alex the Brown, Trevor Byrne, Sue Ding, Elenie Chung, Norbert Shieh, Maya E. Rudolph, Sean Huntley, and Tempe Hale. Filmmakers in attendance.

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These nine Los Angeles based filmmakers move across California to China, Norway and Argentina in an evening program that examines intimacy and spectacle, consciousness and catharsis, memory and dreams.

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Elenie Chung’s Citric Acid traces the slow fracture of an artistic bond under the pressure of competition, unfolding with quiet tension and striking subtlety. Tempe Hale’s Pick Up the Stick explores sibling intimacy through road trip footage and improvisation, while Maya E. Rudolph’s ICEBERG captures the emotional dissonance of youth caught between music, family obligation, and the ache of first love in a hazy Beijing summer.

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Several works interrogate how private lives are entangled with broader systems of power, history, and spectacle. Norbert Shieh’s essay film Two Miles East revisits a military jet crash to meditate on suburban life, militarization, and the myth of paradise. Alex the Brown’s Apologia reframes public apologies by powerful figures through analog video manipulation, exposing the hollow choreography of accountability, while Sue Ding’s A Spectacle of Her Appetites uses found footage to explore an emotional spectrum of appetite.

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Threaded throughout the program is an interest in how memory is recorded, distorted, and performed. Trevor Byrne’s Indelible Laughter excavates male camaraderie through humor as both bonding ritual and mask. Sean Huntley’s Lapse destabilizes perception through horror and photography, while Anderson Matthew and Satira’s Madre de los Descalzos reinterprets an Argentinian folkloric figure through a queer lens, in a fever-dream convergence of music video as experimental film.

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WEDNESDAY, 2/25
7:30 DOORS
8:00 SCREENING

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Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.