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Intermittent Delight
film/Video
5 min
2007

Synopsis
Intermittent Delight weaves together images of Ghanaian batik textiles, fashion, and domestic labor with fragments of a 1960s Westinghouse commercial. Through rhythm, texture, and sound, the film reflects on gendered labor, style, and the circulation of material across continents.

Credits
Sound design: Kari Rae Seekins

Selected Screenings & Collections
• New Langton Arts, San Francisco (2007)
• Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (2010)
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art (2015)
• Centre Pompidou retrospective (2016)

Collections
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• Centre Pompidou