Blue and, White, Red
Dakota Parkinson & Malic Amalya
November 15, 2025 / 5 - 8pm (one night only!)
God bless America. We're number one. Please ignore the ruins. The works in Blue and, White, Red upturn US nationalism through slippery references to Ozymandias and inversions via drag and formal playfulness.
Malic Amalya is a transgender filmmaker working across experimental 16mm film, video installation, and expanded cinema performance. Visceral and cacophonous, his films traverse gritty landscapes of abandoned buildings, blast zones, and back rooms. His creative framework is informed by an intersectional trans-feminist politic rooted in decolonization, anti-racism, gender self-determination, disability justice, prison abolition, anti-capitalism, and climate justice.
Malic is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and Film Production at Emerson College in Boston. His films have screened in festivals and queer bars across the world, and are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco and CJC in Paris.
Dakota Parkinson is a resident artist at the Morean Center for Clay and a technician at the Hive St. Pete. She grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri in 2016. She is a ceramicist, community builder, and stalwartly visible trans femme. She got her start in ceramics at a community studio in 2019, and she went on to join Access Arts as an artist in residence (2020-2022). She is interested in clay as a place, clay as an extension of body, clay as a mourning ritual, and clay as a deeply relational social practice.
