\nNO NEW YORK <\/strong><\/span>
\nSelections from a Decade FLEXFest<\/strong><\/span>
\nDrew Christie, Lauren Cook, Christopher Harris, Jason LaRay Keener & J. Ledbetter,\u00a0Jesse McLean, Jodie Mack, Kristin Reeves, Kelly Sears, Brendan & Jeremy Smyth, Scott Stark, Rob Todd <\/span> \/ Curated by Roger Beebe<\/span>
\nadmission $6 – curator in person<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/h1>\n
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Still from <\/span>\u201cOnce It Started It Could Not End\u00a0Otherwise\u201d (<\/span>Kelly Sears, 2011) – image courtesy of the artist<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Microscope welcomes Roger Beebe back to the gallery for the last Event of our 2014-15 Season. For the evening, Beebe has curated a night of selections from a decade of FLEXFest by filmmakers working outside of the tradition epicenters of experimental film New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago.<\/span><\/p>\n “One of the unique institutional\/historical characteristics\u00a0of experimental filmmaking in the U.S. is that many of the great experimental\u00a0filmmaking and film exhibition centers have not been in our major cities.\u00a0Instead, especially\u00a0as experimental film\u00a0found its way into colleges and universities, thriving experimental film\u00a0cultures have sprung up in unlikely places\u2014Binghamton, Buffalo, Ann Arbor,\u00a0Athens, Iowa City, Boulder, etc., etc., etc. <\/span><\/p>\n Having lived,\u00a0worked, and run a film festival in such a place\u00a0(Gainesville, Florida, \u201cthe Paris of North Central Florida\u201d) for a decade, I\u00a0became acutely aware that often this history gets effaced or overshadowed by\u00a0the tales of the scenes in\u00a0our major cities:\u00a0\u00a0New York (above all), San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago (more or\u00a0less in that order).\u00a0This program is\u00a0designed to shine a light on some important contemporary makers scattered\u00a0around the fifty\u00a0states whose work often embodies a different practice that\u00a0develops in the semi-autonomy of their local scenes.\u00a0This program presents just a small sampling\u00a0of such work, drawn from my decade at the helm of FLEXfest. <\/span><\/p>\n … Many of\u00a0these makers have spent time in the \u201ccenters\u201d before\u00a0settling in the\u00a0\u201cperiphery.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0And surely their work is\u00a0marked by that passage, which has often included schooling at one of the\u00a0canonical art programs (like Jodie Mack at the School of the Art Institute of\u00a0Chicago).\u00a0Certainly\u00a0almost all have also\u00a0screened in the center\/those centers at one time or another.\u00a0But I would still argue that there\u2019s\u00a0something unique about the trajectory that these makers have taken through the\u00a0world and that that trajectory\u00a0is reflected in the work itself.\u00a0\u00a0This program is designed to make a case for\u00a0that specificity and to serve as an incentive to dig deeper into this \u201ccinema\u00a0of the margins\u201d at the geographical peripheries of experimental film.” – RB<\/span><\/p>\n _<\/span> Program:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Christopher Harris (Orlando, FL), \u201c28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark)\u201d\u00a0(3:00, 16mm, 2009)<\/span> Friday September 4, 7:30pm NO NEW YORK Selections from a Decade FLEXFest Drew Christie, Lauren Cook, Christopher Harris, Jason LaRay Keener & J. Ledbetter,\u00a0Jesse McLean, Jodie Mack, Kristin Reeves, Kelly Sears, Brendan & Jeremy Smyth, Scott Stark, Rob Todd \/ Curated by Roger Beebe admission $6 – curator in person Still from \u201cOnce It Started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16593","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16593"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16606,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16593\/revisions\/16606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nROGER BEEBE 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.\u00a0Beebe is also a film programmer:\u00a0he 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.\u00a0He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nScott Stark (Austin, TX), \u201cBloom\u201d (11:00, digital video,\u00a02012)<\/span>
\nRob Todd (Boston, MA), \u201cStable\u201d (7:00, 16mm, 2003)<\/span>
\nKelly Sears (Denver, CO), \u201cOnce It Started It Could Not End\u00a0Otherwise\u201d (7:30, HD video, 2011)<\/span>
\nBrendan and Jeremy Smyth (Durham, NC\/Haverhill, MA), \u201cDeath\u00a0Songs and Car Bombs\u201d (6:30, 16mm, 2013)<\/span>
\nJason LaRay Keener and J. Ledbetter (Birmingham, AL) \u201cHallelujah!\u00a0Gorilla Revival\u201d (4:45, HD video, 2008)<\/span>
\nLauren Cook (Hartford, CT), \u201cAltitude Zero\u201d (5:00, 16mm,\u00a02004)<\/span>
\nKristin Reeves (Murray, KY), \u201cThe White Coat Phenomenon\u201d\u00a0(3:00, SD video from VHS, 2012)<\/span>
\nDrew Christie (Seattle, WA), \u201cThe Man Who Shot the Man Who\u00a0Shot Lincoln\u201d (5:30, SD video, 2010)<\/span>
\nJesse McLean (Milwaukee, WI), \u201cI\u2019m in Pittsburgh and It\u2019s\u00a0Raining\u201d (14:20, HD video, 2015)<\/span>
\nJodie Mack (Lebanon, NH), \u201cLet Your Light Shine\u201d (3:00,\u00a016mm, 2013)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"