12G and PAAFF invite you to attend the 4th Annual Contemporary Video Art Exhibition on August 28th, 2022. The Experimental Video Art Exhibition is a platform for South Asian (SA), Southwest Asian, and North African (SWANA) experimental video artists whose work stretches beyond the unconventional. The exhibition features short films that reorient dominant narratives; films that are positioned between what could be and what will be.

Collectively, PAAFF and 12G work within the Asian, West Asian, and North African diaspora to produce visual arts programming that is a mirror—a reminder that traditions and experience, whether new, marginal, or erased, not only exist, they also possess imposing beauty that demands our attention. This year’s exhibition centers on three themes: Censorship and Empire; Queer Poetics as Audio/Visual Lexicon; and Migration/Displacement as a Consequence of Colonialism.

Our jury has carefully selected 12 works from hundreds of noteworthy submissions. The exhibiting artists span the SWANA & SA regions and diasporas, including Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, India, Iran, Morocco, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Canada, and the US.

Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Seating is limited, so REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.