White Sands Crystal Foxes

WHITE SANDS CRYSTAL FOXES is an experimental film journey through the point of view of a young queer person who daydreams about the erotics of a world where humans are willfully in submission to nature, and foxes are the only mammals still able to procreate. In this speculative world, in heightened states of emotion, crystals form from human secretions, such as tears, cum, and piss, and are considered to be valuable sources of energy. Foxes are polyamorous creatures slowly becoming the dominant mammals populating the world. Holes are infinite portals, social architectures, thresholds, and energy conductors. Drawing connections between chemical warfare, climate change, sustainable energy, and queering time and space, Liz Rosenfeld transforms a 360° immersive environment (a planetarium) into a speculative future lexicon of flesh, holes, crystals, and foxes.
This screening will open with a short live work entitled “The Shimmer” performed by Liz Rosenfeld.

Liz Rosenfeld is a Berlin-based visual and performance artist who works in film/video, performance, and experimental writing practice. They received an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, followed by an MA from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University in 2007. Rosenfeld’s films and performances have been shown in international museums and venues including the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Mapa Teatro, Bogotá, Tate Modern, London, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Production Sonja Klümper, Paula Alamillo Rodriguez, Liz Rosenfeld. Production company Amard Bird Films (Berlin, Germany). Written and directed by Liz Rosenfeld. Cinematography Imogen Heath. Editing Alex Eisenberg, Hannes Wagner. Music Neda Sanai. Sound design Samuel Klemke. Production design Liz Rosenfeld. Costumes Liz Rosenfeld. Casting Liz Rosenfeld. Production managers Nadja Krueger, Iwasa Hirohito, Kathy Rosenfeld. With Phoebe Patey-Ferguson.

Films

selection: 2003: HEART (8 min.). 2005: Untitled (Dyketactics Revisited). 2014: DAISY CHAIN. 2015: The Surface Tension Trilogy, Proliferations Part I & II. 2016: Fire In the Theater. 2017: FUCK TREE (9 min.), Liz/James/Stillholes (8 min.). 2019: Between Revolutions. 2020: Edging, Tremble. 2021: White Sands Crystal Foxes. 2022: FOLDS.