On Friday, March 27, Sofía Granados Dyer moderates a conversation with Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Keisha Scarville and Lauren Noelle Oliver. Together, they will explore the shared language of cinema, photography, and books.

Cinema underpins Martha Naranjo Sandoval’s philosophy of editing, which she brings to her new book, Small Death (MACK). Here, Sandoval presents a collection of snapshots that swarm the page like bees. Within this swarm, strange combinations open new rhythms that express the pathos and incoherence of immigration.

Keisha Scarville’s lick of tongue, rub of finger, on soft wound studies movement — not only by traversing space, but also by following the contours of memory. Collaging photographs and film stills, Scarville pushes forth uneven narratives that give space to contradiction and uncertainty and that arise from grief and diasporic history.

Lauren Noelle Oliver, meanwhile, explores how film and photography might become tools for personal transformation. Treating the camera as a mirror, Oliver documents performances that begin with her own body and offer no calculated ending. Sometimes, Oliver can achieve this with just her 35 mm camera. Elsewhere, she combines multiple perspectives into diptychs, multi-channel films, or Muybridge-like collages. In Oliver’s work, the totality of the body is, truly, more than a sum of its parts.

Where do jump cuts meet triptychs? Where does montage meet the page? Each of these artists find inspiration in cinema’s dynamic relationship to time.

Please join us for an exciting panel with three photographers who inventively assemble and disassemble the substance of their lives, enriching their work with movement and animating the stories that lie beyond.