Elisabeth Subrin + Pablo de Ocampo

Join us at Dreamsong for an intimate artist talk with New York-based artist Elisabeth Subrin and conversation with Pablo de Ocampo, Director and Curator of Moving Image at the Walker Art Center. Across her practice, Subrin has continually engaged with the notion of “speculative biography” looking at female subjects within complex cultural histories. For this talk, the artist will screen excerpts of her films Shulie (on radical feminist writer Shulamith Firestone), The Fancy (on photographer Francesca Woodman), and Sweet Ruin (on an unrealized Michelangelo Antonioni film that was set to star Maria Schneider). This event follows a screening of Subrin's recent work at the Walker Art Center the evening prior on 10/24 at 7pm. This event is co-presented with Walker Art Center.

Elisabeth Subrin is a New York based award-winning director and artist. Her critically acclaimed films and video installations have been featured in numerous festivals and exhibitions internationally, including solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Vienna Viennale. Subrin’s 2016 award-winning feature narrative, A Woman, A Part, had its world premiere in competition at The Rotterdam International Film Festival and traveled to festivals throughout Europe, US and Asia. It was released theatrically in 2017. Her 2022 award-winning short film, Maria Schneider, 1983, starring Manal Issa, Aissa Maiga and Isabel Sandoval, had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes International Film Festival in Director’s Fortnight and North American premiere at The 60th New York Film Festival in 2022 and was awarded a 2023 César (French Oscars). A commissioned multi-channel video, sound and sculptural version, The Listening Takes, was on view at David Winton Bell Gallery through June 4th, 2023. She is currently developing her feature-length bio-pic about Maria Schneider.

Pablo de Ocampo is Director and Curator of Moving Image at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 2014 to 2020, de Ocampo was Exhibitions Curator at the artist-run center Western Front in Vancouver, Canada. His previous positions include Artistic Director of Toronto’s Images Festival from 2006 to 2014, co-founder/collective member of Cinema Project in Portland, Oregon, and in 2013, programmer of the 59th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, History is What’s Happening and is currently the President of the Board of Trustees for the Flaherty Seminar. His writing has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, BlackFlash, and in the catalogues Wendelien van Oldenborgh: unset on-set (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), Dissident Lines: Lis Rhodes (Nottingham Contemporary), and Low Relief: Lucy Raven (EMPAC, Mousse, and Portikus).