Catherine Sullivan: The Startled Faction at Metro Pictures

Renowned for elaborate video installations that draw upon theater and live performance, Catherine Sullivan debuts her most recent film project, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), this Thursday at Metro Pictures. A propositional film concerned with ambiguous labor (uncompensated work outside one’s job description), it features nine characters facing the prevailing question of whether to “lean in” to this ambiguous labor or resist through strategies of withdrawal, redaction and retreat.