Melvin Moti: the Prisoner's Cinema December 11, 2010

orking primarily with the medium of film, Melvin Moti gives form to incidents, events, and subjects lost in the history of the 20th century. The artists practice often revolves around research on a forgotten, hidden, or obscure phenomenon detached from the historical narrative. The core of the exhibition at the MIT List Center will be Moti's 35mm film 'The Prisoner's Cinema' (2008), based on research into hallucinations caused by visual deprivation.