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Film for One to Eight Projectors
On Tuesday, March 25, the Appalachian Theatre, Awesome Space, and Toy Sheep Microcinema will host Ohio State professor and legendary experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, as he brings to the High Country a program of works titled FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS. This event begins on 3/25 at 7pm and will take place in the Appalachian Theatre’s Community Room, 559 West King Street, Boone. This event is FREE and open to the public.
This program is unrated but recommended for adults.
Beebe’s method involves turning on (and off) multiple movie projectors in the back of the room, “playing” them for an audience—and the results are uniquely and ravishingly beautiful, like no imagery or movie you’ve even seen before! The Appalachian Theatre program will feature several new multi-projector works, including UN ARBRE (2024) and HOME MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY (2021), alongside his seven-projector show-stopping LAST LIGHT OF A DYING STAR (2008/2011).
Beebe 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) [2020]) to the racial politics of font choices (THE COMIC SANS VIDEO [2018] and the real spaces of the virtual economy (AMAZONIA [2019]). And maybe Roger will set up his experimental cinema Karaoke for us.
Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 explores 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 the Sundance Film Festival 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. Beebe is also a film programmer (he ran Flicker, a festival of small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000) and a Professor in the Departments of Art and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at the Ohio State University.
This is a one-of-a-kind screening you simply can’t miss! Join us at 7pm on Tuesday, March 25 at the Appalachian Theatre for Roger’s incredible show.
Event Links
Exhibitor: https://go.evvnt.com/2947980-0
