KUZNITSA is a multimodal production house founded in 2021.
We are a cadre of multimodal artists and researchers interested in using a diversity of sensory modes to provoke and obscure the line between art and anthropology.
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Kuznitsa Media
P.O. Box 295
Poughquag, NY
12570-0295
SELECTED SCREENINGS‣ TCL Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, CA, March 1, 2022 World Premiere
‣ Hotel Congress Plaza, Tucson, AZ, April 27, 2022
‣ Vintage Mobile Cinema, Tolpuddle, Dorset, UK, July 16, 2022
‣ Warwick Drive-In Theater, Warwick, NY, August 16, 2022
‣ Usina Cultural Energisa, Nova Friburgo, Brazil, October 14, 2022
‣ Ursynowskie Centrum Kultury „Alternatywy”, Warsaw, Poland, December 2, 2022
‣ Club de l'Etoile Cinéma, Paris, France, April 6, 2023
PRESSReview by Cole Diment – Small Axe Radical Short Film Reviews
Interview with Taylor Genovese – Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival
UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE WALL
(2022)
DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER, EDITOR, WRITER
TAYLOR GENOVESEFEATURING
LAIKEN JORDAHLORIGINAL SCORE
DICK POWIS
This video essay focuses on the landscapes of the Sonoran Desert—and the project of a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico—as a way of investigating the manner in which something as seemingly generic as a wall can take on particular political and affective forms. This short provocation explores the ways that violent and distasteful objects create, and subsequently come to characterize, malevolent spectacles.
Category
Documentary, ShortDuration
9 minsLanguage
EnglishScreening Formats
DCP 2K (16:9 aspect ratio; Stereo; 24 fps; Color)Digital File (ProRes 422 HQ)
STILLS
SELECTED SCREENINGS‣ Warwick Drive-In Theater, Warwick, NY, August 16, 2023
STONES IN COLD WATER
(2023)
DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER, EDITOR, WRITER
TAYLOR GENOVESEPRODUCERS
TAYLOR GENOVESE
DICK POWISORIGINAL SCORE
DICK POWIS
Filmed throughout Ukraine just months before the full-scale Russian invasion, this vérité visual ethnography explores the overlaps of memory, hope, progress, and nostalgia at the scale of everyday life.
Category
Documentary, Experimental, ShortDuration
17 mins (theatrical); 40 mins (extended)Language
English, Russian, UkrainianScreening Formats
DCP 2K (16:9 aspect ratio; Stereo; 24 fps; Black & White and Color)Digital File (ProRes 422 HQ)
STILLS
SELECTED SCREENINGS‣ TCL Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, CA, February 27, 2024 World Premiere
‣ Dump Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan, June 26, 2024
‣ Kornspeicher, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, Germany, August 10, 2024
‣ Superblue, Miami, FL, August 17, 2024
‣ Arte Vivo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 9, 2024
‣ Fundación Comunidad Contemporánea, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 11, 2024
‣ Tallgrass Film Center, Wichita, KS, October 25 and 26*, 2024 Regional Premiere
‣ Andenbuch KulturRaum, Berlin, Germany, November 4–9**, 2024* Encore screening.
** Continuous screening at venue.
THE SUN SETS LIKE A SCAR
(2024)
DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER, EDITOR
TAYLOR GENOVESEPRODUCERS
TAYLOR GENOVESE
DICK POWISORIGINAL SCORE
DAVID ROBERT POLLOCKPOETRY
LANGSTON HUGHESNARRATION
DEMETRIUS HAZELPOST-PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER & MASTERING
SIMON RUSSEK
Engaging with the poetry of Langston Hughes, this film investigates the afterlives of Vladimir Lenin in eastern Germany.
Category
Experimental, ShortDuration
6 minsLanguage
EnglishScreening Formats
DCP 4K (4:3 aspect ratio; Stereo; 24 fps; Color)DCP 2K (4:3 aspect ratio; Stereo; 24 fps; Color)Digital File (ProRes 422 HQ)
STILLS
YO, RESIDUO
(I, RESIDUE)
(202X)
CURRENTLY IN POST-PRODUCTION
DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER, WRITER
MARIO OROSPE HERNÁNDEZPRODUCERS
MARIO OROSPE HERNÁNDEZ
TAYLOR GENOVESE
DICK POWISEDITORS
MARIO OROSPE HERNÁNDEZ
TAYLOR GENOVESE
This is the story of unruly desire, one that poisons and impoverishes: the tale of a modern King Midas, crossing borders and unearthing everything that is presumed to be valuable. Yet here, the golden shine that should emanate from the king’s touch is missing, and all that’s left is an all-encompassing abstraction. This filmic fable speaks to the anonymous racialized bodies trapped under the impossible demand to fill a growing void that leaves only annihilation in its wake.
Category
Documentary, Experimental, ShortDuration
TBALanguage
SpanishScreening Formats
TBA