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shana tova — to repentance renewal and sweet rebellion this year
sharing some context and stills from my film hands on earth (tuesday may 14, 2024)
showing in the program with a live reading
🔗 in bio

i shot this film while on the media team for jvp during early ceasefire / anti genocide demonstrations. i was interested in the margins of the margin and turned away from typical protest portraiture in favor of a study of hands at work. not really documentation, but instead an attention to / intention towards the long histories of public protest, their choreographies and intensities

i’ll show it as an expanded cinema work, devotion & the insatiable, paired with a live reading of a piece titled october 8 (after may 1), after the voice in Sharon Hayes’ letterpress works May 1st. these letters have not been printed…

I won’t spell out the letters but the address moves from lover to crowd and back — the one and the many — who hasn’t felt a private hunger inside a public one?

it was my first time shooting film. i first performed this work at mono XVIII in 2024 and will again this sunday, as part of collectively singular: a partial address. eternal gratitude to @mononoawarefilm
sun sept 13, screens 7:30pm
free, the mark o’donnell theater
160 schermerhorn st, brooklyn by @ruudbboy

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🌞✨We are thrilled to announce the 2026-2027 New Jewish Culture Fellows!✨🌞From left to right / top to bottom: Rudy Gerson, Rachel Betesh, Canto V. Engelhard, lily gold, Sarah Ema Friedland, Rosa Estherina, Jake Sol Davidson, and Sam Day Harmet. To learn more about these fellows, please visit our website (link in bio). We’re so looking forward to sharing more about their work with you.

Every year we receive a more overwhelming number of excellent applications, and we are grateful to all who applied for continuing to demonstrate the essential nature of NJCF and broader artist community for boundary-pushing contemporary Jewish artists and art-making. We need your work more than ever! by @ruudbboy

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in one week — screening five works including a cut of the film I made from @thirdlyrelevant’s performance Swerve Fatigue, @thekitchen_nyc
sun sept 13 with @mononoawarefilm
doors 7pm / screens 7:30pm
🔗 in bio by @ruudbboy

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Join us next Sunday September 13th for our first CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA screening of the Fall with Rudy Gerson (@ruudbboy ) in person to present “Collectively Singular: A Partial Address “ Five films: hands, a monument, an ensemble, a parking garage, and a coffin
Hosted by The Mark O’Donnell Theater 160 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn, (@themarkodonnelltheater )
Attendance will be limited to 60 so please plan to arrive early.
Doors open @ 7 PM – Start time 7:30 PM
FREE TO ATTEND (as always ;)
TRT, 60 minutes. Additional time for discussion / Q & A

Collectively Singular brings together new and recent moving image works organized around the shared and singular problem of address. Moving between subjects of protest, memorial, dance, the city, and landscape, the films offer incompleteness at different registers of detectability: the crowd and the one. Across these works, the camera is the tool to attend to what can be done together and what must be done alone, with others. Film becomes the place to experience the estrangements of the forms we’ve inherited.
A demonstration unfolds across hands. An arm traces a Berlin memorial. An ensemble dissolves into and out of one another. A parking garage, a vanished record. A coffin emerging in the American landscape.
. Rudy Gerson (b. 1993, New York City; raised in Las Vegas, NV) is an artist, filmmaker, and educator working across moving image, performance, and installation. His practice explores how groups and social selves are formed through shifting frameworks of religion, the family, the party, and spectacle. Engaging forms such as sports, nationalism, dance, and mourning, his work considers how desire becomes collectively articulated through repetition. Working through an obliquely jewish sensibility, his practice asks how inherited forms carry both the weight of capture and the possibility of freedom.
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Full details for the program can be found on the MONO website. Link In Bio - Events - Screenings.
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Connectivity through Cinema Series Fall 2026:
Sept 13 Rudy Gerson
Oct 2nd Masa Kudo
Oct 9th Yi Cui
Oct 23rd Paola Fernanda Guźman Figueroa
Oct 30th Nico Cadena
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. taken in The Mark O'Donnell Theater at Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center by @ruudbboy

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back on main to share new work. bolex rode shotgun this summer. screening five films sunday the 13 — 🔗 link in bio.

oklahoma. big shout out to @mononoawarefilm as alwaysssss

actually jon rode shotgun. strapped.

also ran (and died) a 10k by @ruudbboy

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#ilikeyou by @ruudbboy

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