Avant Cinema

ROGER BEEBE: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS (16mm)

Directed by Roger Beebe

2021, 2h 0min, 16mm

Avant Cinema

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“Beebe’s films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape.”
—Wyatt Williams,
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)

 “[Beebe’s films] implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose Western photographs captured the banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial America.”
—David Fellerath,
The Independent Weekly

In the wake of the lockdown, filmmaker Roger Beebe returns to the road with a program of 16mm multi-projector performances.  The program features several newer works (Lineage (for Norman McLaren) (2019, 4 x 16mm), de rerum natura (2019, 3 x 16mm + video), Home Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry (2021, 4 x 16mm),  alongside some of his best-known projector performances (including the seven-projector show-stopping Last Light of a Dying Star (2008/2011)).  He will also include a sampling of recent essayistic videos, presented as live-narrated documentaries. These works take on a range of topics from the forbidden pleasures of men crying (Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)) to the racial politics of font choices (The Comic Sans Video) and the real spaces of the virtual economy (Amazonia).

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