Event

Sept 17 Films for One to Eight Projectors (2009) 7:00

Florida filmmaker Roger Beebe has shown work in such unlikely venues as McMurdo Station in Antarctica and the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, as well as the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, and many other traditional spaces. Beebe will be on hand to present an evening of short films which use multiple simultaneously running projectors to immerse the audience in imagery.

Among other films, Beebe will present a retooled two-projector version of his well-known Strip Mall Trilogy; Money Changes Everything, an elaborate three-projector meditation on Las Vegas; and the eight-projector magnum opus Last Light of a Dying Star. Made and projected in a variety of formats (video, 16mm, and super-8mm), the films combine found footage and Beebe's own striking imagery of American landscapes, seen through the prism of technological change. But also they exist as part of a long avant-garde tradition of performance film since as Mr. Beebe says, they can only be screened with [the filmmaker] actually running the projectors and running from projector to projector.

Tickets are $8. Take-Up punch cards can be used at our office for advance ticket purchase.