Film in which a hand moves almost blindly across a canvas (2024)
Nik Liguori
Film in which a hand moves almost blindly across a canvas, Nik Liguori, USA, 16mm > digital, 2.5 min, 2024
A haiku. A Fluxus-inspired, hand-inked tone poem of motion and form.
Streaming Details
This film is available to stream globally.
Program Partners
This film is co-presented with College for Creative Studies and Arts Council Windsor and Region.
Image credits: all artworks, portraits and stills courtesy of the artist © Nik Liguori.
About the artist
Nik Liguori (USA) is a writer, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary artist born in Detroit in 2001. His work in film, collage and multimedia engages the archive as a deeply resourceful space for creativity and play, reimagining fragments of social histories, personal mythologies, and cultural references to melodrama and fantasy. He received his BFA in film from College for Creative Studies (2024). His previous films, such as (injury detail) (2024), moonshine/St. Paul (2023), and Swimmer (2023), have been screened and exhibited at venues including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Millennium Film Workshop, College for Creative Studies, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, CROSSROADS, and Laterale Film Festival. His artwork has been exhibited at the Scarab Club and Detroit Artists Market and has also appeared in The Horizon Magazine and three volumes of Therapeutic Edgelands, published by A.W.E. Society. He lives and works in Detroit.