Roger Beebe Screens with Pleasure Dome and Teaches Filmmaking With Your Home Printer at LIFT
Pleasure Dome presents Roger Beebe’s Films for One to Eight Projectors Performance
Saturday, October 29, 7pm Doors/ 7:30 Screening
@ Trash Palace, 89-B Niagara St.
$8/ 5 Members + Students
www.pdome.org/ 416-656-5577
Pleasure Dome presents Roger Beebe’s Films for One to Eight Projectors Performance
Saturday, October 29, 7pm Doors/ 7:30 Screening
@ Trash Palace, 89-B Niagara St.
$8/ 5 Members + Students
www.pdome.org/ 416-656-5577
Renowned 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, will present a program
of his recent films. Using multiple projectors — running as many as eight
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 (2001)
and TB TX DANCE (2006) to the more elaborate three-projector studies Money
Changes Everything (2009) and AAAAA Motion Picture (2010) on finally to the eight-projector
meditation on the mysteries of space, Last Light of a Dying Star (2008).
Roger Beebe is a professor of Film and Media Studies at the
University of Florida. Beebe has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely
venues as McMurdo Station in Antarctica and the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square
as well as more traditional venues such as the Museum of Modern Art and the
Pacific Film Archive in addition to numerous festivals, among them Sundance, the International Film
Festival Rotterdam, and New York Underground. He has won dozens of 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, North Carolina, from 1997-2000 and is currently Artistic Director of
FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival. He also owns Video Rodeo,
an independent video store in Gainesville, Florida. http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rogerbb/
“[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
Associated workshop at LIFT:
LIFT presents Filmmaking With Your Home Printer; A Workshop
with Roger Beebe
29 Oct 2011 – 14:00 – 16:00
30 Oct 2011 – 12:00 – 16:00
Members: $55
Non-members: $75
Enrollment is limited to: 8
Special guest Roger Beebe leads this class in cameraless
filmmaking. Work with a laser printer to print black and white images on clear film
stock. Experiment with contact printing to copy and alter your printed images.
Use the darkroom to process your prints and create projectable copies of the
work.