2022
growth lies, pack of truth is a short speculative film reconfiguring news media coverage of mass shootings from the 1960s to present day. Primarily reworking news footage of the University of Texas tower shooting in 1966, the piece rewrites an interview by a news anchor with a first responder, focusing the conversation instead on the mental health and recovery of the first responder and a mysterious creature spreading like a virus throughout the nation. The film metaphorically combines social anxiety around the rise of pandemics with digital virality as a kind of physical and mental disease rooted in surveillance technologies to examine the commodification of trauma in U.S. news media. growth lies, pack of truth imagine an alternative universe in which vulnerable masculinity may aid in altering the course of the future.
Upcoming | Current
Tactics of Erasure at ReflectSpace, Glendale
Recent Exhibitions
Collision Practice at Human Resources and the LGBT Center
growth lies, pack of truth at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles Opening October 1st - January 8th
Spillover, Durden and Ray at the Bendix building, Los Angeles
It’s kind of a scary feeling, LAXART for X-TRA Summer Launch Party
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold, Gabriel Sweet
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.
Tactics of Erasure at ReflectSpace, Glendale
Recent Exhibitions
Collision Practice at Human Resources and the LGBT Center
growth lies, pack of truth at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles Opening October 1st - January 8th
Spillover, Durden and Ray at the Bendix building, Los Angeles
It’s kind of a scary feeling, LAXART for X-TRA Summer Launch Party
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold, Gabriel Sweet
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.