June 15th, 2023
Kicking off the summer, Shadow Kitchen hosts the Los Angeles premiere of Adrian Randall’s film essay, A HUMAN YEAR IS SEVEN EARTH YEARS (2022).
Over the course of the 20th century, radio and television developed in the United States not through personal ingenuity and entrepreneurism, but in concerted effort with the North American military-industrial complex. A HUMAN YEAR IS SEVEN EARTH YEARS examines the effects of these last 100 years of telecommunications on the human psyche, weaving historical narratives and personal anecdotes across radio waves and brain waves. Part history of empire, part personal travelogue, and part metaphysical exploration of technology, A HUMAN YEAR IS SEVEN EARTH YEARS traces the story of electronic communications just as much as it reflects on the video essay genre itself.
The film has played at Festival Fotogenia (MX), FIDBA (Argentina), the Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, and won 1st place at the Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in November 2022 in Buenos Aires.
Join us on June 15th to watch A HUMAN YEAR IS SEVEN EARTH YEARS and have a discussion with Adrian after!
PROGRAM
A HUMAN YEAR IS SEVEN EARTH YEARS
(dir. Adrian Randall, 2022, 84min)
From the Honduran north coast to the outer reaches of Earth’s magnetic field, a plot has been brewing in the ether. Part media archaeology, part film diary, and part analog video art, A HUMAN YEAR IS SEVEN EARTH YEARS looks at the military origins of American radio and television, tracing a psychedelic labyrinth across four continents.
IN PERSON: ADRIAN RANDALL!
FILMMAKER
ADRIAN RANDALL (b. 1989) is a Honduran-American filmmaker and editor currently living in Los Angeles, CA. He has worked across community-based, experimental, documentary, and commercial film projects.