Films for One to Eight Projectors: Multiple Projector Experiments by Roger Beebe, Sunday, March 13, 2016

WHAT:
Mothlight hosts filmmaker/curator/professor/road warrior Roger Beebe as he makes his first-ever appearance in Detroit with a program of his multiple-projector performances at Trinospheres on March 13. The program features several of his best-known projector performances (including the six-projector show-stopping space jam “Last Light of a Dying Star”) alongside recent award-winning work in single-channel HD video as well as the Detroit premiere of his latest multi-projector mayhem, “SOUNDFILM.” These workstake on a range of topics from the forbidden pleasures of men crying (“Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)”) and the secret logic of the book of Genesis (“Beginnings”) to Las Vegas suicides (“Money Changes Everything”) and companies jockeying to be at the start of the phone book (“AAAAA Motion Picture”).

WHEN:

8PM
Sunday, March 13th, 2016

WHERE:

“[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

“Beebe’s films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape.”

–Wyatt Williams, Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
“Beebe’s work is goofy, startling, and important.” –Daniel Kraus, Wilmington Encore

ABOUT ROGER BEEBE:
Roger 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 Film forum 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 was the founder and Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film Festival from 2004-2014. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University.

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