The List Center exhibition premieres Alison Nguyen’s first live-action film, history as hypnosis (2023), as a three-channel installation alongside a related print and video sculpture. Drawing on the cinematic tropes of science-fiction, Western, and road films, history as hypnosis surfaces themes of alienation, assimilation, and refusal and centers characters and narratives that, as the artist observes, are often “omitted from history and the screen.”