Inspired by the experimental images and atmospheric soundscapes found in the Academy Museum’s exhibition Shifting Perspectives: Celebrating Vertical Cinema, we invite local artists and creative collaborators Adee Roberson and Anna Luisa Petrisko to expand our Tactile Filmmaking Workshops with the transformative effects of sound. Together, they will provide an interactive and ambient sound bath to inspire filmmaking during the workshop. In addition to creating their unique film strips, participants will be invited to engage with Adee and Anna Luisa to experiment with digital and analog sound-making instruments to add to a collectively created soundscape, which will accompany the finished short film at the end of the workshop.

Adee and Anna Luisa are friends and creative collaborators who have worked together for over 15 years and see friendship as a creative collaboration. Their collective and individual multi-media art practices explore topics of diaspora, identity, race, gender, and more in a contemporary context. Their collaboration is inspirational to our intention to provide the Tactile Filmmaking Workshops as a "...reminder that each individual film strip is unique, but when combined, shows the power and beauty of collective action.

Additional family-friendly activities include keychain making with celluloid film strips!


Schedule: 
10:30am–1:30pm | Workshop in the Shirley Temple Education Studio 

2pm | Screening in the Lower Level lobby 

Bios:

Adee Roberson  
Adee Roberson (b.1981, West Palm Beach, Florida) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is a meditation on symbolism and texture. Synthesizing performance and installation, her work melds vibration and technicolor visions through paintings, video, and melodic compositions. These works offer a refracted timeline of black diasporic movement, weaving sonic and familial archives, with landscape, rhythm, and spirit.   

Anna Luisa Petrisko  
Anna Luisa Petrisko is a musician and artist working in video, performance, sound, installation, and textiles. Her art is invested in the sacred as much as it is interested in technological speculation, exploring future and ancient ideas at a non-linear tempo. She investigates the body as a site of paradox—transcendent of time, space and form. Her work is grounded in community and archiving histories. She collaborates with many artists and friends. These shared works build relationships and cultural communion. 

All workshops are free with museum admission and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Museum admission is free for youth ages 17 and under. 

If you have any questions or need assistance planning your visit, please email filmeducation@oscars.org.