An Impossible Address
Artist and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri’s EMPAC-commissioned film An Impossible Address is styled as a letter that cannot be delivered. Wrestling with a revolutionary’s disappearance from Angola and from historical records, the film pursues a story that remains just out of reach, seizing on sounds and images that erupt from collective memory.
An Impossible Address is exhibited as an expanded installation in EMPAC's Studio 1—Goodman, where Sanzgiri shot key sections of the film. The exhibition includes the newly commissioned film and stages a series of archival prints and related artistic interventions by the artist. Viewers can engage with the project through tours and a Saturday film screening in the theater featuring additional contemporary artists. Guest-programmed by Sanzgiri’s collaborator Yasmina Price, the Saturday screening explores the larger aesthetic and political context to which Sanzgiri’s work responds.
The series runs from October 29 through November 1 and includes a film practice workshop at the Sanctuary for Independent Media, three open days of the film running in Studio 1, tours with the curator, and a contextualizing afternoon of film to round out the events.
Main Image: Suneil Sanzgiri, An Impossible Address, film still, 2025. Courtesy the artist.
An Impossible Address is co-commissioned by EMPAC and Mercer Union (Toronto),
EMPAC programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
