FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS

Name: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS
Start: 2025-04-08T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 815 Princess St, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28401

Schedule

Tue, 08 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

815 Princess St, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28401 | Wilmington, NC

Roger Beebe will have his first show in Wilmington since 2018 with a new program of 16mm multi-projector performances!
The program features several newer works (un arbre (2024, 4 x 16mm + video), 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).