The Tiger (2024)
Shanna Maurizi
The Tiger, Shanna Maurizi, USA, 16mm > digital, 19 min, 2024
Spontaneous communication between two people transects geographic and psychological terrain indicating a co-habitation of the mind. Three picnickers reconfigure across time, forms hover at the fringes of consciousness, and bills go unpaid as the story spans remote coastlines and re-forested roadways.
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 © Shanna Maurizi.
About the artist
Shanna Maurizi (USA) is an artist, curator, and filmmaker. Her work seeks out access points to the unknown, realized in works on paper, film and video, and sculpture. She received an MFA in Film from California College of the Arts. Her films have been exhibited at festivals, museums, galleries and cinematheques worldwide including Experiments in Cinema, Other Cinema, Anthology Film Archives and many others. Her film Sunken Treasure won the Art and Science Award at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival and her short film Late Night with Carl Sagan premiered at NewFilmmakers NY. Her artwork in the gallery context has been shown most recently at LaMaMa Gallery, and her previous solo shows were reviewed as Critics’ Picks on Art F City. As a curator she co-founded The Red Door and The Climax A Movie House in Oakland, and the collective space Songs for Presidents in New York. She has taught in the film department at New York University and currently conducts 16mm filmmaking workshops in Detroit with Mothlight Microcinema.