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Description: “Val” is a short film made in 2023 that serves as the finale for a performance work Mara Mckevitt began in 2019 in which she inhabited the character of a fictional artist named Val Breeder, a condescending yet captivating recluse, with an antiseptic sensibility and a taste for the obscene. In “work” and “social” environments, Mckevitt presented herself as Val’s pliant yet contemptuous assistant, while in fact playing both roles until 2022 when she began production for the short. nn