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Bayley Sweitzer is a filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn, whose practice revolves around an ongoing attempt to repurpose narrative film form in order to convey radical political possibilities. Spanning 500 years of colonial destruction, Nosferasta tells the story of Oba, a Rastafarian vampire, and Christopher Columbus, Oba’s original ...
Bayley Sweitzer is a filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn. His practice revolves around repurposing narrative film in order to convey radical political possibilities. 13, avenue du Président Wilson 75116 Paris Open 12h-22h FR EN Eco Mode
Bayley Sweitzer (b.1989, United States) is a filmmaker currently based in Brooklyn. His practice revolves around a dynamic engagement with the margins and an interest in the chronomorphic qualities of narrative, specifically the camera's ability to consolidate dimensions.
May 3, 2018 · Near the beginning of Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s terrific new film Empty Metal (2018), which premieres at the Film Society Lincoln Center in New York on Sunday, a deadpan voiceover makes a counterintuitive distinction between the ideas of ‘apocalypse’ and the end of the world. ‘Apocalypse’ is defined not in terms of destruction ...
Spike Island presents Nosferasta, a major new film commission by Brooklyn-based filmmakers Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer. Nosferasta is the first iteration of a Rastafarian vampire film starring and co-written by Oba, a Trinidadian artist and musician based in Brooklyn. The film reimagines Oba’s origin story; a nightmarish chronicle of ...
- October 17, 2023
Open Weds-Sun, 12-6pm. Gasworks presents the first UK commission by Brooklyn-based filmmakers Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer in collaboration with Oba. The exhibition launches their ongoing film Nosferasta, a nightmarish chronicle of colonial encounters dating back to 1492. Nosferasta is the first iteration of a Rastafarian vampire film ...
Bayley Sweitzer is a filmmaker whose lens-based practice seeks to advance radical political futures. Oba is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and actor. The collaborative short film Nosferasta: First Bite (2021) satirises the vampirism at the core of settler colonialism, relaying the origin story of a Rastafarian vampire, trafficked from West Africa to the Caribbean in the late fifteenth century.
