
Jenna Bliss
Adopting both the lens of a low-definition, flickering 8-mm camera and the effortlessness of early 2000s advertisements, Jenna Bliss’s fictionalized documentaries in “Now vacant” subject 9/11 to a time-shifted gaze. Three shorts—Connecting the Dots, Spectacle, and Conspiracy (all 2021, the latter two shown on monitors theatrically elevated on towering pedestals)—superimpose erratic footage of a Lower Manhattan skyline, airplanes hovering in the sky, an attempt to capture a “Tribute in Light” show, flashing neon signs, and a digital animation of an unspecified map. The montages loosely concatenate