Searching for Beauty in Student Loan Debt or at Least the Envelopes in Which It Comes
(2020, screenprints on 16mm film for viewing in anaglyph 3D or not)
Don your 3D glasses, open your mind, allow the denial of questionable financial decisions made by an aspiring young artist to dissolve on your tongue, and take a trip over 10 years to a delusory destination where the student loan debt crisis and one advanced art degree converge. Lean into the darkness of capitalized interest or remove your glasses and dream in color of solvency that may never come. Energetically steeped in student loan pay-off balances that exceed original borrow amounts and dedicated to all artists who understand but cannot bear to speak of it.
Don your 3D glasses, open your mind, allow the denial of questionable financial decisions made by an aspiring young artist to dissolve on your tongue, and take a trip over 10 years to a delusory destination where the student loan debt crisis and one advanced art degree converge. Lean into the darkness of capitalized interest or remove your glasses and dream in color of solvency that may never come. Energetically steeped in student loan pay-off balances that exceed original borrow amounts and dedicated to all artists who understand but cannot bear to speak of it.
“Nicky Tavares’s Searching for Beauty in Student Loan Debt or at Least the Envelopes in Which It Comes, an anaglyph 3D short made from screenprints on 16mm, is bedazzling in its patterned assortment of blue and red blots, and quietly bone-chilling in its sonic collage of credit-chasing voicemail harassment.”
– Michael Pattison, Sight & Sound: The International Film Magazine, Winter 2020-21