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A New Hard Production presents a Greenhouse Session with my lovely friend Cash Langdon.
link in bio for the full session
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This past spring, beneath a canopy of green, next to the dark colored stream, I collaborated with my friends @cashlangdon and @jsatt_ to create this session. Here’s a clip from the title track.
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Thanks to the incredible team that made it all happened:

Produced and Directed by Ali Newhard @alinewhard
Music by Cash Langdon @cashlangdon
Audio Engineer and Mix by Jesse Sattler @jsatt_
Art Direction by @cnnrsmlsn and @lainerettmer
Color by Hans Purwa @hans.purwa
Graphics by Noah Baker @noahbaker.studio
Special Thanks to April Goldberg @aprilgoldberg

Labels: @seasickrecords and @wellkeptsecret.co

A New Hard Production presents a Greenhouse Session with my lovely friend Cash Langdon.
for the full session see link in bio
.
.
.
This past spring, beneath a canopy of green, next to the dark colored stream, I collaborated with my friends @cashlangdon and @jsatt_ to create this session. Here’s a clip from the title track.
.
.
Thanks to the incredible team that made it all happened:

Produced and Directed by Ali Newhard @alinewhard
Music by Cash Langdon @cashlangdon
Audio Engineer and Mix by Jesse Sattler @jsatt_
Art Direction by @cnnrsmlsn and @lainerettmer
Color by Hans Purwa @hans.purwa
Graphics by Noah Baker @noahbaker.studio
Special Thanks to April Goldberg @aprilgoldberg

Labels: @seasickrecords and @wellkeptsecret.com

This Thursday!

Laine Rettmer and Ali Newhard
Artist Talk
March 20, 4-5pm
Brant Gallery, 102 South Hall

@lainerettmer @alinewhard

This Thursday as part of the programming for the exhibition Day, Laine Rettmer and Ali Newhard will discuss their project Fugue, a series of photo-roman single-channel works shown on slide projector. The images featured in Fugue were taken using expired 35mm Kodak Ektachrome color slide film, and made across Utah, Colorado, New York, and Rhode Island. The slides reenact, reference, and fabulate images from the new queer cinema movement of the 1990s, (My Own Private Idaho, Happy Together, Mulholland Drive, and High Art). These films were formative in outlining and visualizing our understandings of queer safety and love, often defining the boundary of what was possible. Through Fugue, we imagine new narratives in the cracks and slippages around these reproductions. The work explores a post-colonial, queer relationship to tropes of “the West” and “Manifest Destiny.” In Fugue, assumptions about travel, expansion, and American exceptionalism are challenged through our subjectivity, access, and feminist critique.

Fugue: roads, (excerpt), 10:40, 2024
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Fugue is an experimental photo-roman shown on slide projector, made using Kodak Ektachrome film shot across Utah, Colorado, New York, and Rhode Island.

The images and voiceover reference and remake films from the 90s New Queer Cinema movement —My Own Private Idaho, Happy Together, High Art — that were formative in outlining and visualizing queer safety and love, often defining the borders of the possible. Fugue is an attempt to formulate narratives through the cracks and slippages around these reproductions.

#fugue #photoroman #kodak #35mm #ektachrome

Without vigilance, a story’s origins are forgotten. Rather than mechanically allowing other people’s stories to guide our lives, it is possible to get involved and narrate from a state of passionate participation.

Fugue: roads (74 of 80), 2024

#kodak #35mm #ektachrome

It is natural to adopt other people’s stories to help create our identities, to fill in gaps in our own experience or intelligence. Stories become easily cemented and rendered inflexible, developing into assumptions upon which a life is lived

Fugue: roads (62 of 80), 2024

#kodak #35mm #ektachrome

I stood twinned in her dark wells. With hair so pale and strange. Windowed away in another world. While the red sun sank eternally.

Fugue: roads (4 of 80), 2024

#kodak #35mm #ektachrome

I didn’t know you could see. Yourself in other’s eyes. Or see the sun in someone else.

Fugue: roads (2 of 80), 2024

#kodak #35mm #ektachrome

I looked into her eyes. So dark they seemed all pupil. Eyes in which the sun was setting. In which, I stood beside the sun

Fugue: roads (80 of 80), 2024

#kodak #35mm #ektachrome

Fugue: roads (76 of 80), 2024

#kodakektachrome #35mm #fugue

Fugue: roads (34 of 80), 2024

#kodakektachrome #35mm #fugue

Fugue: roads (34 of 80), 2024

#ektachrome #35mm #fugue