THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Fumble” (March 7-13)

Written By Michael Workman

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Fumble

Description
Fumble (2024) is a series of lighthearted performative vignettes that explore the duality of immigrant and queer life—the longing to return to the familiar geographic, cultural, and bodily coordinates of one’s past, alongside an equally compelling desire to assimilate into a new culture and identity. Through a collection of absurd scenes depicting both the attempts and failures to fit in, the film illustrates the felt incongruities of this experience in a hybrid form.

Runtime: 15 minutes, 27 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation

Director Biography - Mahsa Talebiani
Mahsa Talebiani is an experimental filmmaker exploring the intersections of queerness and diaspora experience. Their work delves into the sensory explorations within intercultural cinema, often showcasing their own body to manifest an embodied vulnerability. Through performance, video art, and sculptural space, they challenge traditional narrative film structures and hierarchical productions, venturing into alternative trajectories within the medium.

Credits & Specifications:
Mahsa Talebiani (Director)
Terra Talamh (Producer)

Completion Date: November 11, 2024
Production Budget: 3,500 USD
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Shooting Format: Digital
Aspect Ratio: 1:90
Film Color: Color
First-time Filmmaker: No
Student Project: Yes - Ohio University

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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