Plain Language by Teils Studio

A film series boldfacing local stories and everyday life in the Philadelphia area. Presented as part of An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together Teils Studio presents Plain Language, a film series boldfacing local stories and everyday life in the Philadelphia area. The film blends video, photography, poetry & interviews to create an episodic series and video-based collage of underground creatives, workers, and communities. "Enter a world that belongs to the sweethearts, worn soles and earnest thinkers- the ‘nobodies’ avoiding being ‘somebody’. Come party party. We’re archiving our lil lives. We share our world- our corners, our fears and wishes- things that feel simple. Come see your friends, neighbours, strangers. Come see that one intersection. Come celebrate the life and world we’re creating together. Come witness what is being built, boarded up, and reimagined. Leave spilling back into it all." About Teils Studio Teils Studio is a rotating collective of multi-disciplinary collaborators working across experimental film, theatre, and the humanities. After writing, directing, and producing several community-led theatre productions, Shay Overstone founded Teils Studio in Philadelphia as an extension of these collaborative practices. Through video work, live presentations, and public screenings, the studio explores local stories and everyday life as cultural material, creating alternative narratives outside mainstream media. Across formats, Teils Studio documents and archives intersections of community and place. About An Endless Meeting An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together is a multi-pronged project taking place this fall at Vox Populi that activates collective process as subject, form, and method. Spanning exhibitions, a curatorial residency, public programs, and a print publication, the project explores the politics of collectivity, inviting broad publics to reflect on their own experiences of collaboration. An Endless Meeting will be presented as part of Collective Futures, a citywide initiative bringing together artist-run and community-based organizations to examine collective cultural production. An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. About The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and dedicated to fostering a vibrant cultural community in Greater Philadelphia. The Center invests in ambitious, imaginative, and catalytic work that showcases the region’s cultural vitality and enhances public life, and engages in an exchange of ideas concerning artistic and interpretive practice with a broad network of cultural practitioners and leaders.