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Crossroads and the Exploding Digital Inevitable
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
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Crossroads and the Exploding Digital Inevitable
Tue Apr 17: 7.00pm

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** A Live Essay by Ross Lipman and 4K restoration of Bruce Conners Crossroads **

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The Exploding Digital Inevitable is a live essay by noted filmmaker/archivist Ross Lipman. Integrating live narration with an array of movie and audio clips, still photographs, and rare archival documents, it tells the riveting story of Crossroads unique production, while simultaneously deconstructing the massive cultural spectacle of the original Bikini Atoll tests themselves  the single most recorded event in human history. Along the way it chronicles the extraordinary collaboration of Conner with Terry Riley and Patrick Gleeson, including original interviews with both composers. It ultimately looks at the Atomic Era as only one incarnation of the human races ongoing mad journey to destruction, a journey that apparently continues through the present moment. Lets hope were wrong about that.

About Crossroads

In 1976 groundbreaking collagist, sculptor and filmmaker Bruce Conner released his magnum opus, a 36-minute assemblage of US government footage of the iconic Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test. If Conner invented the modern found footage film with A Movie in 1958, he re-invented it with Crossroads. His editing of the films brilliant dual score  by seminal minimalist composer Terry Riley and synthesizer pioneer Patrick Gleeson  evokes a surreal beauty latent in the devastating images that comprises one of the most profound meditations on the nuclear era extant.

Ross Lipmans The Exploding Digital Inevitable is the ideal way to encounter one of the very best films in the history of cinema, Bruce Conners Crossroads.  Erika Balsom, author, Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art

I found myself reeling in the after-cloud of The Exploding Digital Inevitable. Live-cinema can morph and this notion made it resonate on a whole other level. It opened my mind to what cinema can be.  Karissa Hahn, filmmaker



Photo credit: Bruce Conner, Bombhead, 1989. Courtesy Conner Family Trust

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Northwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States

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