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The African Desperate Trailer (2022)

16 September 2022

It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

Soliloquy Trailer (2021)

31 December 2021

In Soliloquy , part of the Kita’s World series, Martine Syms creates digital avatar Kita, who acts as cultural commentator, speaking to questions of consciousness within the systems of race, capitalism, and technology.

She Mad: Bitch Zone Trailer (2020)

31 December 2020

At a weeklong camp for teenage girls, a counselor leads the campers through a series of exercises that blend the language of female empowerment and body positivity with the kind of radical transparency that makes for good reality TV.

My Only Idol is Reality Trailer (2012)

25 April 2012

My Only Idol is Reality is a video work created from an excerpt of Season One of MTV’s The Real World.

An Evening with Queen White Trailer (2017)

21 April 2017

An improvised monologue performed by an invented character partly inspired by Syms' great aunt, her godmother and Maxine Powell, the director of Personal Development at Motown.

Memory Palace Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

Memory Palace is a short video grounded in the personal history of the artist. A discovery of a photo album activates memories of physical spaces, which in turn open doors to reminiscences of past family life.

A Pilot for a Show About Nowhere Trailer (2015)

04 June 2015

A Pilot for a Show About Nowhere uses the premise of a pitch and the formula of Sitcom to deliver an essay on representation, self-presentation, viewership and embedded codes, as they exist on the American screen.

Incense, Sweaters, & Ice Trailer (2017)

27 May 2017

Incense, Sweaters, and Ice is a new feature film inspired by the idea that anything one does while being watched is a performance.

DED Trailer (2021)

15 July 2021

DED shows Martine Syms's digital avatar-based on a 3-D scan of her body—in a vast virtual landscape against an infinite horizon.

Lessons I— CLXXX Trailer (2018)

14 June 2018

Over a four-year period, Martine Syms gathered 180 video clips—each 30 seconds long—from sources such as YouTube, talk shows, Vine, and her own personal video diaries.

Slip Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

Welcome to Kita’s World, a CG environment for the alter-ego of Martine Syms. From within the content creator vernacular, Kita embodies and questions the everyday disjuncture of technological innovation and (mis-)representation in a hyper-digital world.

Lesson LXXV Trailer (2017)

01 January 2017

In this endless, silent loop, Martine Syms is seen in three-quarter profile against a plain black background.