‘Patriarchal Sabbath’ – Official Selection INTERMEDIACIONES, XI International Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, Medellin, Colombia 2024 Patriarchal Sabbath is an allegory of resistance against gender inequality. Women must unleash themselves from the “male-shaped symbolic order.” Contemporary, atheistic, consumer societies are, at heart, the same as religious theocracies; all good people, still controlled by patriarchal coding.
‘Through the ruins of cabins and kiosks, and billboards promising justice and redemption, they’ve come to where the pelicans offer their blood; to gather with banners and tapestries, on carpets of flowers; a small girl stares, as each scene’s recorded, inscribed on the cluster of devices of those crowded around’. Corpus Christi: Pelican’s Blood, Private
2024 – 20 years – ADAF – Athens Digital Arts Festival Vacations in the Subconscious Surrealist Vacation Resort Athens curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne 16/26 May 2024 @ ADAF – Athens Digital Arts Festival @ Festivals of the World on 17 – 21 – 25 May 2024 featuring / screening Susanne Wiegner (Germany) –
The Fictional: London as Filmset, Private Photo Review, 19 April 2024, France ‘In William Gibson’s novel, The Peripheral, parts of a depopulated future London transform into anachronistic recreations of the past for the benefit of tourists…’ (c) Aeon Rose https://www.privatephotoreview.com/2024/04/the-fictional-london-as-filmset
Set in London’s Mayfair, Monika K. Adler’s upcoming movie, ‘Sick Bacchus,’ tells a story of modern slavery. The movie’s main character, the rich and beautiful Violetta, represents a privileged group in society for whom material abundance breeds pathology. Every thing and everyone can be bought, reduced to the role of objects, made shallow and laid
Monika K. Adler: Patriarchal Sabbath. A phase-shifted dream, sequenced from revolutionary surrealism’s mitochondrial DNA.
The Female Eye: 111 female video artists in 11 video programs curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne with Monika K. Adler’s Patriarchal Sabbath (2023)
Portrait of Violetta (Bacchus) Photobook | Stirling Photography Festival 2023: ‘Reflect’ @stirlingpf from the upcoming movie Sick Bacchus: www.sickbacchus.com with outstanding @patrycja_planik; @aeon.rose
If you want to see something fancy… therefore you can watch ’ MKA’s Patriarchal Sabbath’ (2023) and other videos in: Black Holes – Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” Toruń, Poland – digital Pavillon of The Wrong Biennale 2023/24 curated by Radosław Osiński
Monika K. Adler: Patriarchal Sabbath to be screened in Los Angeles.
