What does it mean to put your body—your real, pulsing, breakable body—on the line?
SKIN IN THE GAME is a two-day program of screenings, performances, a group exhibition, and the release of a risograph poetry leaflet (Bad Saturn Media), presenting work by 21 international artists, filmmakers, and poets. The event takes place October 24–25, 2025 at Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn, a historic nonprofit arts space dedicated to experimental film and the moving image.
Curated by Michèle Saint-Michel, the program explores the body as archive, threshold, and offering. Saint-Michel’s curatorial practice draws on her own work across somatic memory, feminist ecologies, and quantum poetics, creating exhibitions that bring vulnerability, resistance, and intimacy into sharp relief.
The works in SKIN IN THE GAME speak from the surface of the skin and the space just beneath it: the site of contact, exposure, rupture, and healing. Across media—including moving image, sound, performance, poetry, sculpture, and text—the participating artists engage questions of embodiment as resistance, surreal and speculative self-mapping, fabric and clothing as vessels of memory, and gestures of intimacy, care, and protest.
Millennium Film Workshop
Founded in 1966, Millennium Film Workshop has been a cornerstone of New York’s experimental film community for nearly six decades. As both a screening venue and a hub for independent creators, Millennium has fostered generations of artists pushing the boundaries of the moving image. Today, the Workshop continues its legacy of supporting radical practices through exhibitions, residencies, and educational initiatives.
Bad Saturn
Founded in 2020, Bad Saturn Media is a small press and publishing initiative, dedicated to releasing experimental books, poetry collections, and collaborative zines for a more care-full world. Bad Saturn works with artists and writers to bring intimate, challenging, and beautifully designed projects to our community.
Event Details
Dates: October 24–25, 2025
Location: Millennium Film Workshop, 167 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Program: Screening series, gallery exhibition, live performances, and risograph poetry leaflet release featuring 21 artists, filmmakers, and poets.
