On View through February 28, 2026
Véra (V) Haddad (57), The Feeling When at HARDWARE
Still from Véra (V) Haddad, The Feeling When, 2024, 6 minute 46 second video with sound on loop.
About
A film by Véra (V) Haddad of two friends catching up over the phone. The intonation, timing, and cadence of each performer is derived from typing all of their dialogue as they performed it—eyes cast downward, speech slowed. The Feeling When is an uncanny, poetic, yet humorous meditation on our experience of attention, presence, and connection in a digital age—slyly asking us to consider technology’s toll.
The Feeling When is written and directed by Véra (V) Haddad. Director of photography is Adam Gundersheimer. Original score by Emily A. Sprague. Featuring Youlim Nam and Sahar Khraibani. Véra (V) Haddad: The Feeling When at HARDWARE is curated by Lighthouse Works Curator-at-Large Laurel Ptak, with the support of Community Coordinator, Claudia DeSimone and Fellowship Coordinator, Eliza Schmidt.
HARDWARE is a year-round exhibition space for film and video by contemporary artists located in the loose screw section of Island Hardware on Fishers Island. Every two months, a new moving-image work by a former Lighthouse Works Fellow appears, inviting unexpected encounters with contemporary art where the everyday rhythms, textures, and temporalities of a hardware shop frame the work. Conceived by master carpenter Dave Beckwith and curator Laurel Ptak, HARDWARE grew out of an earlier collaboration as part of the exhibition Sara Magenheimer: Ill-Gotten Gains.
Located inside Island Hardware at 741 The Gloaming on Fishers Island, HARDWARE is programmed by Lighthouse Works and open to the public during business hours, from Monday–Friday 8am–4pm and Sunday 8am–noon, or by appointment. For further information about the exhibition contact Nate Malinowski at [email protected] or (631) 788-7713.
Artist(s)
Véra (V) Haddad is a collaborative filmmaker, artist, and educator who centers relationships in their creative work. Across their work they use the experimental and expressive tools of visual art and filmmaking to articulate complex subjective experiences primarily of the misunderstood, marginalized, or silenced. Earnestness and humor, the planet, portraits of contemporary life, cameras and darkness are enduring interests.
Haddad was a Lighthouse Works Fellow in 2023. A self-taught filmmaker as well as the director and editor of Slopehouse Productions, they have co-created music-centered documentaries and videos for over a decade. Their project Self-Portrait Service was awarded the 2021 Center for Documentary Studies Lange-Taylor prize for documentary photo with text, alongside their collaborator Sam Richardson.
V earned a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from UCLA in the New Genres department. They were recently named among Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film of 2024. Their creative works have been featured on NPR, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone Magazine. Select recent exhibitions include: LA Queer Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, Human Resources Gallery, and The Autry Museum of the American West. They are an alum of Lighthouse Works, Ucross, Vermont Studio Center, and Monson Arts Fellowships.
