The Motherlode (trailer) won Best Trailer from the Monthly Future of Film Awards based in Ohrid, Macedonia!

The Lost // existence before essence is heading to Delete TV Season 10 (2024) Which is awesome! Delete TV mostly lives Online and is based out of London, UK!

We are thrilled to announce that Hassan will chair a discussion titled “African American in Media Art: Curatorial Mixtapes” which features UNCG Media Studies students! This event takes place during The Conference on African American and African Diasporic Cultures and Experiences at UNCG. Friday, February 23rd, 2024 in the EUC Claxton

“An Interview with Jennida Chase” (MS #1009) has been published to Art Inquiries, and can be read at this link:

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/artinquiries_secacart/vol18/iss4/6

The interview is about The Motherlode documentary, and the installation version installed in Richmond, Virginia in October of 2023.

Jennida is honored to receive the 2024 Artist Support Grant by The Arts Council of Greater Greensboro. The grant is funded by the NC Arts Council Artist Support Grant Program.

We are excited to announce the launch of our short film The Lost // existence before essence which has been accepted in the Stockholm City Film Festival, the Luleå International Film Festival in Luleå Sweden, and the Bronx World Film Cycle 2024!

We are also excited to launch a new music video for Quilla‘s track You Belong, which has been accepted into The Europe Music Video Awards in Košice, Slovakia, The Women’s Film Festival, and the Bronx World Film Cycle 2024.

And last but certainly not least, our short film essay Notes From Someone Else’s Lecture has been accepted into the 2024 Smart Philm Festival in Washington D.C!

We’ve been invited to screen a 5-minute teaser at The Ramkat in Winston-Salem on Wednesday November 29th at 7pm. This teaser opens for the Queen Bee’s set. Anna (Quilla), a member of the Queen Bees is the composer for our series and in the doc!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/634994218806923

Queen Bees to Gas Hill Drinking Room at Ramkat on November 29, 2023! Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30 PM. No advance tickets, $5 suggested donation at the door.

Queen Bees is a musical collaboration between three North Carolina-based musicians: Award-winning musician and journalist, Molly McGinn; renowned electronic music producer and songwriter, Quilla; and esteemed musician and creative producer Kate Musselwhite Tobey. They use an uplifting blend of traditional acoustic instruments, modern electronic components and the folk tradition of storytelling to drive unity in social justice causes. Their first track, “Ravens and the Wrens” (Ritual Fire Records, 2021), was inspired by the personal experiences of trans author Sam Peterson. Past collaborations between Molly McGinn and Quilla include “Wild and Kind” (2016)—a musical prayer written to raise awareness about plans to build a canal in Nicaragua that would devastate the local agricultural economy in its path. Collaborations between Quilla and Kate Tobey include “Old Souls” (2020) and forthcoming tracks “Bloodlines” and “You Belong Here,” which explore ancestry and migration. #queenbees #mollymcginn #quilla #katemusselwhitetobey #gashilldrinkingroom #wsnc #supportlivemusic

Happy to be returning to the Berlin Takt residency for December of 2023. s/n did a 3 month residency at Takt in 2011, so this feels like a homecoming! Chase is heading to Berlin to work on the Motherlode and work with Berlin-based artist mothers.

Excited to announce that The Motherlode’s 3-channel installation work-in-progress will be on display at the Try-Me Gallery Located at 1623 W Main St, Richmond, VA 23220. The opening is this Friday night from 6-8pm.

This exhibition is in conjunction with and a direct result of the SECAC Fellowship awarded in 2022.

Quito //4
Vacations in the Subconscious
1924-2023
100 Years – Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton
Surrealist Vacation Resort Quito
https://the-surrealists.nmartproject.net/surrealist…/
@ MIVA Festival – Quito/Ecuador
25 / 26 August 2023

Screenings @ Cinemateca Nacional Quito
25/26 August 2023

featuring today
s/n (Jennida Chase & Hassan Pitts) (USA) – The Fawn, 2017, 8:15
Gabin Cortez Chance (USA) – To Show One’s Hand, 2022, 4:58
Vojislav Radovanović (Serbia/USA) – Suburbia, 2020, 11:00

Vacations in the Subconscious
https://the-surrealists.nmartproject.net/

curated by Wilfried Agricola De Cologne