PALACE OF MACHINERY

2025

A haunting multi-screen reanimation of early 20th-century industrial films originally shot in collaboration with Pittsburgh’s Westinghouse factories and exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Four floor-to-ceiling images span a single wall while eight channels of sound fold the room into a living echo chamber. Visions of technological “progress” and spectacles of orchestrated factory labor return as disorienting afterimages of the imbricated world-making processes and agendas of our film and extractive industries.

FEED Media Art Center, Erie, PA, March 26-June 2025

Chicago Underground Film Festival, Sept. 18-21, 2025