From Roger Warren Beebe's 2008 "Last Light of a Dying Star."
James River Shorts continues on Saturday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m. at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond with guest juror and filmmaker Roger Warren Beebe’s FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS. Admission: $7/$5 JRFS Members
Experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, brings a program of his recent mutli-projector films to the Northeast for a fall 2011 tour. In these films Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors—running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously—not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of expanded cinema. The show builds from the relatively straightforward two-projector films “The Strip Mall Trilogy†and “TB TX DANCE†to the more elaborate three-projector studies “Money Changes Everything†and “AAAAA Motion Picture†on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space, “Last Light of a Dying Star.
“[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
Tickets may be purchased in advance via Eventbrite (bottom of this page) or at the door 30 minutes prior to the show.
