An Exhibition Exploring Entanglement, Presence, and the Poetics of Connection
June 19–25, 2025 | Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Michèle Saint-Michel
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.
Quantum Intimacies is a week-long exhibition and screening series that draws 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.
“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.”
—Michèle St. Michel, Curator
Presented at the storied Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn, the program invites viewers to consider presence as something porous and relational: grief, desire, and connection not as emotions, but as energetic states. Through moving image, installation, sound, and live performance, Quantum Intimacies brings together works that reverberate across dimensions of time and space—works that exist in multiple states at once.
EVENTS
Thursday, June 19 at 8PM
Poetry Reading & Live Projection Performance
An evening of poetry and experimental projection, featuring a six-projector live-feed performance by Boston-based moving image artist Yue Hua.
Friday, June 20 at 8PM
Gallery Opening & Main Screening
Includes in-person and simulcast screenings of short films by Amanda Bonaiuto, Charlotte Clermont, sierra francesca enea, Tom Faber, Copper Giloth, Benett Holgerson, Laura Iancu, Maya Ivona, Soyeon Jung, Sidney Mandros, Patrick Marshall, Molly Miller, Nicolás M. Pintos, Kati Rehbeck, Edwin Rostron, Giancarlo M. Sandoval, Erica Schreiner, Tashrika Sharma, Adam E. Stone, Mahesh Subramaniam, Paula Stuttman, Réka Szűcs, Chanika Svetvilas, and Sogol & Joubeen.
On View: June 23–25 from 1PM to 5PM
Gallery Loop featuring continuous moving image works by Saif Alsaegh, Cali M. Banks, stephanie barber, Marcie Begleiter, Matthew Berka, Jacklyn Brickman, David Baeumler, Maya Ivona, Barry Hollow, Tumí Johnson, ayla khan, Kasper Klop & Morwenna Spagnol, Ao Lei, Cheryl Maeder, Anna Maguire & Kyle Greenberg (STUPID CO), Carlos Vásquez Méndez, Ye Mimi, Non Films, Lula O'Donnell, Long Pham, Alex Schuurbiers, Eric Souther, Clay Steakley, Mark Street, Sara C. Sun, Scott Turri, Danielle Vishlitzky, Zhiqian Wang, Peter Whittenberger, and Wenwen Zhu.
Gallery Installations by Audrey Coombe, Anna Fern and Vida Zamora (Payá), Evangeline LaRue, Eileen Ramos, Katrina Slavik, and Reuben Son.
Accompanying Publication from Bad Saturn Media
a collapsible mercy, a poetry collection accompanying the exhibition, featuring poems by Kate Fahey, Alexis Krasilovsky, Riverstone (Yuying Song), and Kristen Tomanocy.
About the Organizers
Millennium Film Workshop
Founded in 1966, Millennium Film Workshop is a legendary artist-run space dedicated to the creation, exhibition, and education of experimental film, video, and media art. As one of New York’s longest-running centers for avant-garde film, Millennium offers open-access resources including screening facilities, equipment rentals, workshops, and critique groups. It remains a vital hub for artists working at the edge of cinematic form.
Bad Saturn
Bad Saturn is an independent press and platform for care-driven publishing. Focused on grief, intimacy, and radical healing, Bad Saturn produces art books, poetry, music, and radical coloring books that blur the line between personal ritual and political gesture. Each publication is a space of resonance—attuned to the vulnerable, the nonlinear, and the transformative.
Michèle Saint-Michel
Michèle Saint-Michel is a filmmaker, poet, and intermedia artist based in Brooklyn. Her work explores somatic memory, feminist ecologies, and the metaphysics of touch, often through poetic cinema and time-based installation. She holds an MA in Artists’ Film & Moving Image from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her curatorial practice centers care, contradiction, and the poetics of presence.
Millennium Film Workshop
167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237
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