Roger Beebe in performance, 2017
Films for One to Eight Projectors
Multi-projector experiments by Roger Beebe
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Atlanta Contemporary | 7:00 pm
Doors at 6:30 | $8 admission
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Throughout its history, the Film Love series has regularly hosted visiting
filmmakers to present their work in person. Continuing this tradition, we host
the indefatigable traveler/filmmaker/curator Roger Beebe – returning to Atlanta
on his new 4-month, 3000-mile roadshow of spectacular multiple-projector
performances.
A longtime Atlanta visitor, Beebe will present several
premieres of new works alongside some of his best-known 16mm projector
performances (including the six-projector show-stopping Last Light of a
Dying Star) as well as recent award-winning work in single-channel HD
video. These works take on a range of strategies from formalist investigations
of the materials of film to essayistic explorations of popular culture and a
range of topics from the forbidden pleasures of men crying (Historia
Calamitatum [The Story of My Misfortunes]) and the secret logic of the book
of Genesis (Beginnings) to Las Vegas suicides (Money Changes
Everything) and the real spaces of the virtual economy (Amazonia).
Roger Beebe’s previous Atlanta shows have been audience favorites,
combining artistic rigor with lively participation and discussion. Film Love and
Atlanta Contemporary are proud to host Beebe for his only Atlanta appearance on
this tour.
ABOUT ROGER BEEBE:
Roger Beebe’s work since 2006 consists
primarily of multiple projector performances that explore the world of found
images and the "found" landscapes of late capitalism. He has screened his films
around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square
and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including Sundance
and the Museum of Modern Art with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, The
Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, and Los Angeles Filmforum among many
other venues. As film programmer, Beebe also ran Flicker, a festival of
small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and was the founder and
Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival from
2004-2014. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio
State University.
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