Exhibitions dates tbd (March – April 2025)
Chronicle of a Fall, a feature-length immersive installation, depicts the fragmented, in-transit, experience of a group of immigrant cultural workers primarily from the Middle East and Global South, scattered around the contemporary US. Paying homage to the classic ‘Chronicle of a Summer,’ the project updates the Cinema Verité approach using emerging technologies such as parallel body worn cameras, volumetric capture, and projection mapping. Visitors to the installation are immersed in a pointillized 3D world created from the interconnected fragments of our participants’ shifting domestic spaces as well as the public environments they navigate. Within these semi-abstract, intertwined, and constantly slipping spaces and soundscapes, the viewers encounter close-up videos of intimate conversations and reflections around the central questions of home and migration, love, loss, and longing.
News and Press
- Exhibition website for Gallery 400, Chicago, May 27 – August 1 2022
- An in-depth review of the exhibition on Hyperallergic of the Gallery 400 exhibition, June 2022
- Selected for “Best Chicago Art Exhibitions of 2022” by the Chicago Tribune, December 2022
About the Artists
Nadav Assor, Co-Producer, Co-Director
For over 10 years, Assor has performed and exhibited work including short films, immersive installations, kinetic sculpture, and live audiovisual performances in festivals, museums and galleries around the world. Recent venues for his work include Hong-Gah Museum Taipei, Centre Arts Santa Monica Barcelona, Oberhausen Festival, Impakt Festival, Arsenal Berlin, Edith-Russ-Haus, Fridman Gallery NY, Transmediale, European Media Arts Festival, Soundwave Biennial SF, Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, and Koffler Center Toronto. Assor was a 2019-2022 Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, and directs the Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology at Connecticut College.
Tirtza Even, Co-Producer, Co-Director
A documentary maker and video artist, Even has produced linear and interactive video work that has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, at the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many galleries, museums and festivals in the U.S., Israel and Europe. Her work won numerous awards, including 3ARTs Award, Fledgling Fund, Artadia Award, Golden Gate Awards Certificate of Merit, SF International Film Festival, Jerome Foundation and NYSCA, and has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY), the Israel Museum (Jerusalem).
Stefan Oliveira-Pita, Editor
Born 1983. Film Editor, Lecturer. Diploma at Film University Konrad Wolf, Potsdam. Since 2009 Oliveira-Pita has carried out numerous collaborations on international features, documentaries and art installation works. Selections include: Atlas (German Film Award Nominee), Furusato (Golden Dove), Lamento (First Steps Award), Portraits of German Alcoholics (Prix Dialogue Berlinale), Civil Servants (Grimme Award Nominee), Only a Day (German Film Critics Award), Family Business (NRW Film Award). Since 2014 he has been a lecturer at DFFB, Bauhaus Uni Weimar, HS Mainz. Alumni of Berlinale Talents 2016. His work has won the best Editing Award for Lamento at Sehsüchte 2014. Oliveira-Pita lives and works in Berlin.
Julian Flavin. Sound Designer
Julian Flavin is a Canadian artist and educator living in Chicago, Illinois. His work employs film/video, installation, writing, and sound to think through such ideas as: the ideological applications of music, the mitigation of social pain with dystopian irony, and the vexed desire for respite from complexity. His work has been featured as part of SXSW, Osheaga Music Festival, Harun Farocki’s Labor In A Single Shot, and Visions Du Réel amongst others. He has worked as the assistant to artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles and currently teaches at Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Institutional support: this project was developed in part through a fellowship with MIT Open Documentary Lab, 2019-2021, with additional support from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Connecticut College, and the City of Chicago.