[Frameworks] FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS tour dates

[Jonathan Walley]

Hello Roger,

I’ve been thinking about sending this email for over a week now, ever since your show. I had to run out early, so I missed the Q+A, but saw everything else. I hadn’t seen the dance piece, which I thought was really great, and of course the new piece on e-commerce, which was depressing. The human race just isn’t going to make it, are we? Actually the one that’s really stuck with me was the Comic Sans video - I take your point, but I’l still thinking about it. Papyrus also seems to be a popular and popularly-hated font. 

I’ve been antisocial (not in the clinical sense, but still…), in a kind of self-imposed exile from most things academic and film-related. It’s a long story, and not a good one, so I’ll spare you. Suffice to say I’ve needed a break. Anyway, as the saying goes - it’s not you, it’s me.

I know I missed the window for you and I to sit down and catch up prior to your tour, which I hope is going well. By the time you’re likely to be able to meet again it will be spring, which is usually better for me and my moods, and it really really would be good to get together. 

All best and sorry as always for being crappy at getting together.
Jonathan


> On Feb 3, 2018, at 12:58 PM, Beebe, Roger W. <beebe.77 at osu.edu> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> I’m about to head out (again) on tour with a program of my (mostly) multi-projector films, and I thought I’d share the tour dates for the first leg, which covers much of the Southeastern US.  (Northeast leg begins in mid-March.)  If you find yourself in one of these cities, do come out & say hello.
> 
> Feb 6: Knoxville: The Knoxville Museum of Art
> Feb 7: Atlanta: Atlanta Contemporary, 7 pm
> Feb 9: Tallahassee: 621 Gallery, 7:30 pm
> Feb 11: Gainesville: The Wooly, 8 pm
> Feb 12: Orlando: University of Central Florida, 7 pm
> Feb 13: Tampa: The Black Box (University of Tampa), 8 pm 
> Feb 15: Jacksonville: Sun-Ray Cinema, 7 pm
> Feb 17: Columbia: The Nickelodeon, 9:30 pm
> Feb 18-19: Wilmington: UNC-W, TBD
> Feb 21: Durham: Griffith Theater (Duke University), 7 pm
> Feb 22: Richmond: Anderson Gallery (VCU), 5 pm
> Feb 23: Baltimore: Gallery CA, 8 pm
> 
> More info below, for those who want.
> 
> Best,
> Roger
> 
> 
> For the first time since 2011, filmmaker/curator/professor Roger Beebe brings his touring film program to the East Coast in January 2018 for a 3-month, 3000-mile roadshow of a program of his multiple-projector performances.  The program will vary city to city, but will include  several premieres of new works alongside some of his best-known projector performances (including the six-projector show-stopping “Last Light of a Dying Star”).  These works take on a range of strategies from formalist investigations of the materials of film to essayistic explorations of popular culture and a range of topics from the forbidden pleasures of men crying (“Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)”) and the politics of font choices (“The Comic Sans Video”) to Las Vegas suicides (“Money Changes Everything”) and the real spaces of the virtual economy (“Amazonia”).
> 
> "[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)
> 
> Roger Beebe’s work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple projector performances that explore 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 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.  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/Video Festival from 2004-2014.  He is currently a Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University.
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