Curated by Michèle Saint-Michel at Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
June 19–25, 2025
Screenings • Installations • Poetry • Live Performance
Presented by Millennium Film Workshop + Bad Saturn Media
How do we touch across time? How does longing refract across parallel selves?
Quantum Intimacies is not an exhibition about intimacy—but an intimate exhibition. One that extends care, insists on slowness, and recognizes softening as resistance. It asks not just how we touch, but how we are touched—by each other, by time, by the things we cannot see but always feel.
Curated by artist-filmmaker Michèle Saint-Michel, Quantum Intimacies is a week-long exhibition and screening series drawing from quantum mechanics, somatic memory, and poetic speculation to explore the architectures of intimacy: those ephemeral structures built between bodies, across distances, and within absences.
Presented at the storied Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn, the exhibition invites viewers to consider presence as porous and relational. Here, grief, desire, and connection are not simply emotions—but energetic states.
Quantum Intimacies screening at Millennium Film Workshop, curated by Michèle Saint-Michel. Featuring over 60 international artists exploring intimacy, somatic memory, and the metaphysics of time through experimental film, poetry, and performance.
Featured Works: Screenings, Installations, and Performance
Over 60 international artists contribute to the project across experimental film, installation, poetry, and live performance. Works explore how intimacy endures, flickers, or ruptures through gesture, memory, ritual, and time-based media. These are not sentimental encounters but quantum ones: uncertain, vibrating, entangled.
SCREENING PROGRAMS
Program A (Approx. 65 minutes)
The Beach – Tom Faber – 12:14
The 8th of April, 2024 – Patrick Marshall – 2:57
JC Retell – Molly Miller – 4:58
A robin in the room – Nicolás M. Pintos – 8:37
November Inside: Hommage á Miroslav Tichy – Réka Szűcs – 3:10
When I Look at the Sun – Mahesh Subramaniam – 7:14
du soleil, que ça existe – Charlotte Clermont – 9:05
body parts_ – Paula Stuttman – 2:26
Hold – Erica Schreiner – 6:44
Mom’s Story – Chanika Svetvilas – 3:24
Confetti – Amanda Bonaiuto – 4:15
Night Music – Edwin Rostron – 3:25
Program B (Approx. 65 minutes)
Blue Alchemy – Benett Holgerson – 11:30
Slowly, We Drift Apart – Sogol & Joubeen – 9:57
Telephones – Copper Giloth – 4:31
4622 Stillwater Circle – Kati Rehbeck – 11:18
closure – sierra francesca enea – 3:08
Hollowgram – Laura Iancu – 7:00
Incubating Home – Soyeon Jung – 3:15
Dream Sequence: Stasis – Adam E. Stone – 2:40
pre occupation – Tashrika Sharma – 7:24
we will find a way – Maya Ivona – 6:01
Pilote – Sidney Mandros & Giancarlo M. Sandoval – 10:36
THEMATIC LOOPS
Wave Particle Duality
Non Films, Clay Steakley, Maya Ivona, Long Pham, Saif Alsaegh, Anna Maguire & Kyle Greenberg (STUPID CO), Danielle Vishlitzky, Lula O'Donnell, Ao Lei, Peter Whittenberger
Superposition
Carlos Vásquez Méndez, Kasper Klop & Morwenna Spagnol, Ye Mimi, Scott Turri, Mark Street, David Baeumler, Sara C. Sun, Cheryl Maeder, ayla khan, Marcie Begleiter
Entanglement
Barry Hollow, Zhiqian Wang, stephanie barber, Matthew Berka, Eric Souther, Alex Schuurbiers, Tumí Johnson, Wenwen Zhu, Cali M. Banks, Jacklyn Brickman
Reuben Son installing World and Wire at Quantum Intimacies. Suspended by wire and tension, the piece explores sonic resonance, memory, and the edge between matter and vibration. Curated by Michèle Saint-Michel at Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn.
GALLERY INSTALLATIONS
Audrey Coombe – State Change
Single-channel video loop (4:39 min)
A meditation on quantum thresholds through water’s shift from liquid to vapor, observing change as a slow accumulation of micro-events.
Evangeline LaRue – Delicacy
Fabric installation (~3x3 ft)
A surrealist quilted work on fragility, soul-body disconnection, and gendered embodiment by a disabled, genderqueer artist.
Reuben Son – World and Wire
Mixed media sculpture (metal and ceramics)
A suspended vessel vibrating between memory and materiality, exploring cinematic time and physical resonance.
Payá (Anna Fern and Vida Zamora) – A Letter
Film installation with hand-built sculpture and organic materials (20 min)
A poetic excavation of time and correspondence, questioning anthropocentric timelines and proposing collective care.
Eileen Ramos – Correspondence
Dual rolodex sculpture
Paired ephemeral cards shuffled by viewers to reveal layered, unexpected entanglements—multitemporal, accidental, and intimate.
Katrina Slavik – Ghost in the Supply Chain
Textile wall works
Human-sea life hybrids stitched into soft panels to illuminate empathy, consumption, and displacement across species lines.
LIVE EVENTS
Poetry Reading & Live Projection Performance
Thursday, June 19 at 8PM
Featuring a five-projector live-feed performance by Yue Hua and poetry by Kristen Tomanocy, fusing language and light across thresholds of grief and gesture.
Gallery Opening & Main Screening
Friday, June 20 at 8PM
Simulcast and in-person screening featuring international artists working across experimental film and time-based poetics.
Artbook Launch: a collapsible mercy
Published by Bad Saturn
a collapsible mercy is a limited edition poetry-artbook that expands the exhibition into tactile form. Each poem is sewn into teabag paper and veiled in hand-dyed organza silk—an origami wave that must be folded to be read. Some words remain hidden, like meaning in a quantum field. This is not a book but an event: a moment of fragile, folding intimacy.
Featured Poets:
Kristen Tomanocy – NYC-based poet and educator, writing on grief, cosmos, and loss.
Riverstone (Yuying Song) – London-based poet of myth, dream, and gender-liminality.
Alexis Krasilovsky – Famed feminist poet and filmmaker, author of Watermelon Linguistics.
Kate Fahey – Irish artist and PhD, merging image-making with poetic fragility.
Artbook Designer: Michèle Saint-Michel—filmmaker, poet, and intermedia artist whose work includes handmade rituals of care, folding, and somatic memory.
About the Curator
Michèle Saint-Michel is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, intermedia artist, and poet. Her work explores grief, metaphysics, and embodied memory through moving image, sound, and poetic form. As a curator, she creates multidisciplinary programs that hold space for experimental voices and reimagine intimacy across form and discipline.
About the Partners
Millennium Film Workshop
An artist-run space with a legacy dating back to 1966, Millennium has supported generations of experimental filmmakers through screenings, residencies, and equipment access.
Bad Saturn Media
An independent press publishing artist books, sonic projects, and poetic experiments. Dedicated to the strange, the vulnerable, and the radical edges of form.
Visit the Exhibition
Quantum Intimacies
Millennium Film Workshop
June 19–25, 2025
Location: 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Programs, installations, and performances