On May 16 and 17 in the Remis Auditorium in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renee M. Browne, Lauren Coulson, Bug Davidson, Case Hathaway-Zepeda, Timothy Mearini, B Milder and K. Tyler will present their theses in film and video focusing on topics ranging from the process of painting to a small prairie town in North Dakota.

Renee M. Browne's Through the Looking-glass, And What She Found There is about seven-year-old Mackenzie. She likes peanuts and cats and bunnies and hamsters and all kinds of little things; drawing motivation from the cosmos, chemistry and geology, Lauren Coulson's Elemental Shifts explores a process of painting that exercises spontaneity and control; Bug Davidson's Nothing Like Ivanhoe layers dislocated audio visual clues that allude to the commonalities between experimental film and queer existence; a dream interlude arises from the collision between fantasy and fear. Masked and playing with fire, a figure briefly emerges, shifts and is extinguished. Did this happen asks Case Hathaway‐Zepeda's nightbook ; Timothy Mearini will screen excerpts from oO0(0)0Oo and oo0\V/0oo; B Milder explores nightlife and popular culture by producing live art when audiences are least expecting it, such as the go-go performance in Middlesex Lounge; K.Tyler's Sense of Place is part of a larger work focused on New Town, ND, a small prairie town struggling with a sudden increase in traffic and population associated with the oil boom.

"SMFA Graduate Thesis Film & Video Exhibition"
Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
May 16, 6 pm + May 17, 7 pm
Reception: May 17, 7–9 pm (at SMFA)