Cameron A. Granger’s practice draws on video games, magic, and Black ancestors to imagine liberatory alternatives to violent civic power structures. Join us at The 8th Floor on April 22 to see his three recent films presented together for the first time, followed by a conversation between the artist and Doreen St. Félix, writer and critic (The New Yorker).
Program, 47’ (descriptions courtesy of the artist)
Before I Let Go, 23’, 2022. Five years ago the east side neighborhood of a town called Bad City was leveled by giant monsters called the Titans. A filmmaker hired by the city to document the community's recovery efforts quickly discovers how different that road to recovery can look for a city, and for its people.
Just Below Heaven, 9’, 2025. A pigeon who lives a life of captivity as a test subject of behavioral scientist B.F. Skinner, dreams of freedom and the collapse of empire.
SLAY THE GOBLIN!!, 15’, 2025. Filmed entirely inside of the 2006 video game The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, and inspired by Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, SLAY THE GOBLIN!! tells the story of a newly appointed soldier in the King’s ‘Royal Guard’ who has been tasked with quelling the beginnings of a Goblin Uprising.
