Film Screening and Discussion with Derek Spencer

Filmmaker and theater artist Derek Spencer screens and discusses a new commissioned work made in reference to Oren Pinhassi’s currently-on-view exhibition Into Your Arm’s Length.

Derek Spencer directs ensemble-based works about the instabilities of contemporary social life. He works collaboratively with performers to devise moments of spectacular chaos and confrontational intimacy. For 7 years Derek was the artistic director of Ceaseless Fun, an LA-based immersive theater ensemble. His debut short film, Personally I Find It Rude to Be Boring, played at experimental and underground festivals around the world. He likes being the last person to leave a party.

The new (as yet unnamed) film work is a site-specific response to Into Your Arm’s Length that explores the frailty of desire through an erotic dream in three parts. Utilizing Pinhassi’s sculptures as inspiration, architecture, and scene-partner, Spencer’s film envisions a shape-shifting love-triangle that cannot find resolution.