News
Upcoming:
Good Genes at Silbersalz Festival, October 27 (tickets available)
Good Genes at National Sawdust, Max Festival, November 10 (tickets available)
Shadowtime at Geneva Film Festival, November 3-12 (tickets available)
Shadowtime at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, November 2-12
Shadowtime at Eye Museum, Netherlands, IDFA, November 9-20 (tickets available)
Constantinopoliad, Onassis Library, Athens, November 21-26 (tickets coming soon!)
Constantinopoliad at Bard Graduate Center, NYC, November 29 (tickets available)
2023
Shadowtime VR premiere at Venice Film Festival, September 1-9
Constantinopoliad premiere at National Sawdust, Archive of Desire Festival, April 28+29
Good Genes and Ghost Genes WIP at CPH festival, Copenhagen, March 17-22
2022
Our Ark wins Best Short Film at Istanbul International Film Festival
Good Genes at Bard Graduate Center, NYC, Sept 7th, tickets available here
Our Ark at Rooftop Films closing night, August 25th in Greenwood Cemetery: tickets available here
Our Ark at DocuFest, Kosovo Aug 1-7
Our Ark Tour:
True/False, Missouri, USA
Imagine Science Film Festival, NYC, USA
First Look, MoMI, NYC, USA
Glasgow Short Film Festival, UK
Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey (Best Short Documentary Award)
Vilnius Film Festival Kino Pavasaris, Lithuania
BAFICI, Argentina
Environmental Film Festival, DC, USA
Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada
Film Olomouc, Czech Republic
FICMEC, Spain
Taiwan International Documentary Festival,
Seoul International Ecological Festival, South Korea
Documetarist, Istanbul, Turkey
Aegean Film Festival, Greece
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico
Crested Butte Film Festival, Colorado, USA
Press:
ARTFORUM: True Blood, Nicholas Rapold on the True/False Film Festival ‘an apocalyptic dispatch on the simulacrum that gives “digital first” an ominous new ring’
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE: Highlights of MoMI’s First Look 2022
2021
November:
OUR ARK international premiere at IDFA
November 21,23 and 25, Amsterdam
Tickets available here
Theater of Lockdown by Barbara Fuchs, Bloomsbury
Onur Karaoglu and Kathryn Hamilton’s ‘Read Subtitles Aloud’ featured in Barbara Fuch’s new book
October:
MIT at Double Exposure Festival: Making the Metaverse
October 13-15
Kathryn Hamilton to speak on panel about investigative journalism and the metaverse.
Our Ark NYC premiere, Imagine Science Film Festival
October 17
Tickets available here
September:
Guest Teaching Fellow at Colorado College
A week workshop for Theater and Dance Students on generating work
ARK: A Critical Approach to VR
Guest Lecture at UCCS
May-June:
School of Genetically Modified Theater, Colorado College
Semester-long bio-art/bio-performance theory and practice class
May
ARK / Shadowtime installation as part of Protocinema’s multi-city exhibition, A Few In Many Places
Press release here
2020
February:
Good Genes
Genspace
Feb 14th
Tickets available here
Brecht Forensics
Residency and Performance, Bryn Mawr
Jan 21-Feb 1st
Performances on Jan 31 and Feb 1st, tickets available here
2020, January:
The Eagle and The Tortoise, Ferus Festival
National Sawdust
January 10th, 7pm and 9pm
Tickets available here
ARK, 2-channel video installation
How Shall We Dress For the Occasion?
601Artspace, 88 Eldridge St.
January 11-March 22, Thursday through Sunday, 1-6 pm
Artist Talk January 11th
Brecht Forensics
Residency and Performance, Bryn Mawr
Jan 21-Feb 1st
Performances on Jan 31 and Feb 1st, tickets available here
2019
ARK at IDFA
Nov 24
Performance of Doll DNA
The Cell Theater
October 31
Residency and performance of Brecht Forenics at UCCS
Sept 10-21
The Macowell Colony residency for the development of Brecht Forensics and The Eagle and The Tortoise.
July 31-Sept 10th
Kaba Kopya Lecture and Data, Documentation and Story Workshop
Loading Gallery
Diyarbakir
July 1-12
Kaba Kopya
Long Night Of Science
Humboldt University
June 7th
FREE
Kaba Kopya
We The City Conference,
Humboldt University, and aquarium, Sudblock, Berlin
May 21-25
FREE
Brecht Forensics
MAX Festival, Z Space, San Francisco
May 18, 9.30pm
FREE
The Fall
Yale University
29th March 2019, 8pm
FREE - rsvp to sistersylvester (at) gmail.com
Three Rooms
Moussem / Bozar, Brussels
Feb 2nd and 3rd, 2019
Brecht Forensics: Drinking Brecht
Joe’s Pub, Under The Radar Festival
January 5th, 2019
Performances, FALL 2018
tickets available through links:
Brecht Forensics: Drinking Brecht -
Caveat, Lower East Side
December 3rd, 6pm
Excerpts from The Fall: A Lecture Performance
CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
November 26th, 6pm
Rough Copies / Kaba Kopya
Amsterdam University
October 18+19
Brecht Forensics: Drinking Brecht + Genetically Modified Theater
Prelude Festival, CUNY
Oct 4 + 6
Performances, SUMMER 2018,
tickets available now through links:
Maps For A War Tourist - JACK, Clinton Hill, NYC
29th June, 8pm
30th June, 3pm + 8pm
Three Rooms - Birmingham Rep, UK,
4th July, 7pm
The Fall - ATHE Conference, Boston,
3rd August, 7pm
01/29/2018
Three Rooms featured in Telerama /Le Monde article on artists negotiating the travel ban and other border issues: « Il y a des absences que la technologie peut combler, dit Kathryn Hamilton. Et d’autres face auxquelles on ne peut rien. »
10/18/2017
Photos and info now up from our performance at Urbang! Festival in Cologne
09/07/2017
Very happy to announce that Sister Sylvester, in collaboration with Amal Omran and Hatem Hadawe, will be presenting an excerpt from Three Rooms at Prelude Festival, NYC, on October 6th. More information here
Performances, 2017:
November 24-25, Three Rooms: Les Bancs Publics, Marseille, France
November 16, Three Rooms: Bozar, Brussels
November 12-14, Three Rooms: Dancing On The Edge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
October 15, Three Rooms: Globalize Cologne, Germany
October 6, Three Rooms: Prelude Festival, NYC
July 14 +15, Three Rooms: Arcola Theater, Shubbak Festival, London, UK
June 2-18, Maps For A War Tourist, Dixon Place, NYC
May 13, Maps For A War Tourist, Mount Tremper Arts, NY State
News:
01/29/2018
Three Rooms featured in Telerama /Le Monde article on artists negotiating the travel ban and other border issues: « Il y a des absences que la technologie peut combler, dit Kathryn Hamilton. Et d’autres face auxquelles on ne peut rien. »
10/18/2017
Photos and info now up from our performance at Urbang! Festival in Cologne
09/07/2017
Very happy to announce that Sister Sylvester, in collaboration with Amal Omran and Hatem Hadawe, will be presenting an excerpt from Three Rooms at Prelude Festival, NYC, on October 6th. More information here