Roger Beebe: Films for One to Eight Projectors

Film artist and educator Roger Beebe returns to the road with a program of 16mm multi-projector performances celebrating the 25th anniversary of his first touring program.

This live expanded cinema performance features several of Roger Beebe’s 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 sampling 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).

Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple-projector performances and essayistic videos 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. Residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and elsewhere have supported his work. Beebe is also a film programmer: he 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 Festival from 2004-2014.

He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Art and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at the Ohio State University.

Hosted by Deering Estate and current Deering Estate Programming Partner and Project Artist in Residence Barron Sherer as part of his Moving Image Alliance activities.

Moving Image Alliance is a Knight Foundation-invested studio project founded to create a climate for appreciation and production of contemporary moving image art based on legacy cinema practices and technologies. Sherer's project collaborates with media artists, galleries, and institutions through advocacy, instruction, and public performance.

With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, The Jorge M. Pérez Family foundation and The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc.

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