Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen Again: The Films of Victoria Vincent

Los Angeles Filmforum presents

Nothing Bad is Ever Going to Happen Again: The Films of Victoria Vincent

Sunday March 16, 2024, 7:00pm

At 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057

NOTE THE EARLIER START TIME

Tickets:

https://link.dice.fm/F1874f249ba6

In person: Victoria Vincent and curator Sam Gurry. Q&A to follow the show.

A fever dream stitched together from hyperpop absurdism, DIY grit, and existential dread, Victoria Vincent’s films paint a world where the distant horizon line never gets any closer, and the only certainty is drinking alone at a curved bar. Dogs wear masks, but so does everyone else. Twins blur into one another, mirroring our fractured digital selves, caught between internet personas and the crushing weight of reality. Soundscapes swing between punchy sardonic humor and smooth, radio-friendly yacht rock, a disorienting mix of self-aware irony and sincerity. Jazz scores breakdown, Kafkaesque systems loom. Everything cycles, everything repeats. Rough-edged animation and MP4-era editing create an unsettling intimacy—like watching something on Live Leak right before the feed cuts. Yet, in the haze of self-harm, drug use, and agoraphobia, there’s a flicker of connection—friendship, however messy, however fleeting. And maybe, just maybe, hope.

Victoria Vincent, known online as Vewn, has been animating and posting for over a decade, drawing over 1.5 million subscribers into her ever-evolving distortions. Though digital, her work carries the earthy luster of the hand-drawn, with tablet-hewn crosshatches that feel like visible thumbprints on the screen. The edges aren’t just present—they’re highlighted, both visually and thematically. Her worlds are layered with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it background jokes, where every flyer, sign, and screengrab is weighted with intent. Anxiety pulses through every jittery, shifting line, her signature boils keeping characters in a state of perpetual unease—always trembling, always on the edge of implosion. Echoing the raw instability of Danny Antonucci, Brendon Small, and Pritt Pärn, her boiling lines keep every frame restless, as if the world itself is nervously exhaling, seconds from collapse.

Notes and Program by Sam Gurry.

Victoria Vincent, known online as Vewn, is an artist from Los Angeles, California. She has been making independent short films and sharing them online for the past 10 years. Her frantic and fast-paced art style seeks to visually capture our chaotic online culture and general feelings of doom. Despite the apocalyptic subject matter, she also hopes to make people laugh.