Marmo Gallery and the Shelton Film Society Present:

Hypatia Artist-In-Residence, Alexis Clements

THERE MUST BE A WORD
Written and directed by Alexis Clements
Short film and handmade Riso-printed zine

An exploration of place, queer identity, and desire, this piece asks questions about how place shapes the ways our identities are realized, and the ways in which categorizing/naming our selves both shapes us and invites resistance. The project draws on the work of scholars and artists such as bell hooks, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Japonica Brown-Saracino, Larry Mitchell, and Lauren Berlant.

Ages 18+ This film contains nudity; minors are allowed with adult supervision.

Alexis Clements is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York (traditional land of the Lenape people). Her creative work has been produced, published, and screened across the US, and in Europe, South America, and Asia. Her feature-length documentary film, All We’ve Got, premiered at NewFest, has toured the globe, and is currently airing on select PBS stations around the US. In 2021 she launched a podcast called The Answer is No. She regularly publishes essays and reviews online, and is currently at work on two projects that mix prose and film.

She has been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Grant, a New York City Artist Corps Grant, a Bruce and Arch Brown Foundation Grant, a Dramatists Guild of America Fellowship, two Puffin Foundation Artist Grants, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant, and the Source Theatre’s Washington Theatre Festival Literary Prize. She has been a resident at the Millay Colony, as well as the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and is an alumna of the WP Theater Playwrights Lab. She is also founder of the multi-disciplinary arts project New Acquisition, which produced projects from 2007-2010, and a co-founder of the queer writing group and publisher, Private Commission, which was active from 2012-2017.

www.alexisclements.com/