Bill Brown & Sabine Gruffat
June 8, 2019 at 8pm
Presented by A Dirty Dark Place
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TRT: 80 minutes (digital media)
In this collection of recent work, celluloid film serves as both a material register and critical resource for interrogating the documentary image. Whether using discontinuous montage, handmade techniques for creating and processing images or dramatic reenactors, these films aim to extend the formal possibilities of non-fiction filmmaking.
For this leg of Bill & Sabine's Waltz Across Texas, we'll be joined by fellow cinematic troubadour (and recent San Antonio transplant) Bill Daniel who'll be screening 16mm films from his personal archive!
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
BILL BROWN is a media artist interested in ways landscape is interpreted, appropriated, and reconfigured according to human desires, memories, and dreams. His research interests include haunted houses, UFO’s, memorial architecture, and outsider archaeology. Bill‘s films have screened at venues around the world, including the Rotterdam Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, and Lincoln Center. A retrospective of his films was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Bill lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
SABINE GRUFFAT is a digital media artist and filmmaker with a special interest in the social and political implications of media and technology. Her experimental and essay films explore how technology, globalization, urbanism, and capitalism affect human beings and the environment. Sabine‘s films have screened at festivals worldwide including the Viennale, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Cinéma du Réel at the Centre Pompidou, and CPH:DOX. Sabine lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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