No Loneliness Like This
LACE Emerging Curator Program
Curated by Semaj Peltier and pom*pom
May 30, 2026, 6–9 PM | RSVP link to come
Heavy Manners Library
1200 N Alvarado St, Los Angeles, CA 90026
No Loneliness Like This is a film and food gathering showcasing experimental films that traverse the many manifestations of state-sanctioned isolation. Here, cinema becomes a vessel for reckoning with the solitude shaped by the slow violences of colonialism and capitalism. Through the rituals of watching and eating, they reflect on and transmute these lived isolations, examine the structures that uphold them, and imagine resistance: fantasies of collective action against the state, of connection as life source, of solidarity through struggle.
About the Curators
Semaj Peltier and pom*pom are collaborators in a curatorial collective and experimental film archive organizing community-based events since 2022.
Semaj Peltier, a projectionist, archivist and filmmaker, brings a praxis shaped by her studies at the University of Amsterdam’s Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image Masters program, specializing in ephemeral histories shaped by coloniality and otherness.
pom*pom, developed by Russell Hartling and Crystal Dawana, is an experimental food collective whose sensory-driven dining experiences intersect with film programming to evoke memory, storytelling, and connection. Together, they build worlds where film and food become tools of resistance—rituals that evoke memory, incite dialogue, and nurture solidarity through shared sensation and subversion.
About the Emerging Curator Program
No Loneliness Like This is the eleventh presentation from the LACE Emerging Curator Program. Designed to discover curatorial talent in Los Angeles, each year’s selected Curator/Curatorial Team works with the LACE staff over a year to plan and collaborate on the presentation and public programming.
Support
No Loneliness Like This is supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
