Hijack! was a makeshift theatre that existed from March
2017-March 2020. Hijack! operated as a free-admission DIY space that exhibited
experimental films, outsider art, public readings, live performances, abstract
visual ideas, and sound art submissions from all around the world. Hijack! was
inspired by the deceased Lower East Side East 4th street model of
The Millennium Film Workshop’s experimental filmmaker ‘OPEN SCREENINGS’ series.
Hijack! opted to ‘hijack’ the idea of open screening public exhibitions
and expanded the idea by seeking international submissions using Social Media
in order to exhibit a larger diversity of work. Hijack! presented such things
as Instagram videos, cellphone experiments, rejected film festival submissions,
unfinished videos, works-in-progress and any form of art made by individuals of
the Outsider community- without curation, prejudice or judgement. Due
the Coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 and subsequent closing of public
gathering spaces, Hijack! was forced dormant. As Coronavirus vaccines have
arrived in 2021 and life ‘as we know it’ has begun to fall back into normalcy
Hijack! was found depressed and affected by the unprecedented feelings of a
never-ending pandemic shutdown. It has been reported that Hijack! was found
dead, but Hijack!’s body (of submissions) from 2017-2019 survived. An autopsy
will be conducted by the NYC Coroners Office and is now officially scheduled to
take place on July 3rd for 24 uninterrupted hours, and will be
livestreamed. The life of Hijack! will be honored and laid to rest at the
online stream morgue with illegal fireworks to follow on July 4th.
RIP HIJACK!
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