Bayley Sweitzer
Brooklyn, NY
Bayley Sweitzer is a filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn, whose practice revolves around an ongoing attempt to repurpose narrative film form in order to convey radical political possibilities. His work has been shown at Film at Lincoln Center, Walker Art Center, Tate Modern, Berlinale, Anthology Film Archives, Bozar in Brussels, Pacific Film Archive, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Other Cinema in San Francisco, and Artists Space in New York City. Sweitzer has received a 2021 Creative Capital Awards and recent moving image commissions from the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, Gasworks in London, and Spike Island in Bristol. Sweitzer also works professionally as a focus puller and is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600.
Film still from Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s film, Nosferasta.
Film still from Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s film, Nosferasta.
Image for Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s film, Nosferasta.
Image for Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s film, Nosferasta.
Film still from Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s film, Nosferasta.
Film still from Empty Metal by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer.
Film still from Empty Metal by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer.
Film still from Empty Metal by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer.
Nosferasta
Adam Khalil, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is a filmmaker and artist whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor, relation, and transgression.
Artist BioBayley Sweitzer is a filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn, whose practice revolves around an ongoing attempt to repurpose narrative film form in order to convey radical political possibilities.
Artist BioSpanning 500 years of colonial destruction, Nosferasta tells the story of Oba, a Rastafarian vampire, and Christopher Columbus, Oba’s original biter, as they spread the colonial infection throughout the “new world.” Formally a vampire film and series of installations, the stylistically impressionistic Nosferasta examines the guilt of being complicit in imperial conquest, while also acknowledging the difficulty of unlearning centuries of vampiric conditioning. At its core Nosferasta asks, how can you decolonize what’s in your blood?
Events
Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer, and Oba: Nosferasta
September 16–October 19, 2022
6:00–8:00PM
Someday Gallery,
New York, NY
Adam Khalil
Brooklyn, NY
Adam Khalil, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor, relation, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of COUSINS Collective. Khalil’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Arts Center, Lincoln Center, Tate Modern, HKW, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Toronto Biennial 2019 and Whitney Biennial 2019, among other institutions. Upcoming exhibitions will be held at Gasworks in London, Spike Island in Bristol, and Artists Space in NYC. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants, including but not limited to a 2021 Creative Capital Award, Sundance Art of Nonfiction, Jerome Artist Fellowship, Cinereach and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.