Friday, October 28, 2011 at 8:00 p.m.
$8 general, $6 students/seniors, $5 members
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An evening of expanded cinema performed by Florida-based experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, whose work has shown everywhere from the Sundance Festival to Antarctica's McMurdo Station. Beebe's film-based performances explore the possibilities of using multiple projectors simultaneously—not for a free-form VJ-type experience—but to create discrete cinematic experiences and films that are "erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape." — Creative Loafing
Roger Beebe is a professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. Beebe has screened his films around the globe with recent solo shows at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Anthology Film Archives in New York, and dozens of other venues. He has won numerous awards including a 2009 Visiting Foreign Artists Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, a 2006 Individual Artist Grant from the State of Florida, and Best Experimental Film at the 2006 Chicago Underground Film Festival. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he is also a film programmer: he ran Flicker, a festival of small gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and is currently Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film Festival. He also owns Video Rodeo, an independent video store in Gainesville, FL.
"[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
"Beebe's work is goofy, startling, and important." --Daniel Kraus, Wilmington Encore