05/29/2026
AS IF I’D LIVED AND FORGOTTEN IT reflects on three decades of the work of filmmaker Liz Roberts (). This celebration will take the form of a zine published by B-Roll Press ()(Saint Piñero and Sage Ó Tuama ) and a screening, presented on Friday, June 12th at 7pm, by The Film-Makers’ Cooperative at Millennium Film Workshop (), organized by Matt McKinzie (.mckz) and Joe Wakeman ().
“The films — Cicatrix, Midwaste, A list of things that make the heart beat faster, Even god, and COLORADO — span three decades and three formats: 16mm, VHS, and digital video. The two early works, Cicatrix and A list, still feel future facing to me, even though they are old. The three films that are more recent, Midwaste, Even god, and COLORADO are like waves of aftermath. They are reckonings with the possibility of repair and resolving the past—personal, familial, structural. All five works either reference each other or hold the first images of friends who reappear in later works. For the last few years I’ve kept thinking and saying: time doesn’t pass, it accumulates.” —Liz Roberts
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Liz Roberts is an artist whose work situates personal histories in political landscapes and seeks to unpeel power. The films in this program have screened at Film Diary NYC, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Microscope Gallery, and Hot Docs, among others. She is a 2026 Creative Capital Awardee in film and a lifelong member of MINT Collective, which began in an Ohio warehouse space.
