TICKETSThis program is presented in partnership with Cool Boulder.
From antique magic lanterns to 3D game engines, two live documentary performances bridge an era of rampant technological development and drastically shifting ethics. Pre-cinematic techniques conjure specters of nature as seen through a dark mirror, while virtual landscapes model sustainable practices in a rapidly changing world. With a multiplicity of perspectives on land, stewardship, and accountability, both richly layered performances transport us across history, place, and species.
Program:
Strata | a performance of topography (2021, US, 60’)
Hannah Jayanti and Alexander Porter
by Hannah Jayanti and Alexander Porter (2021, US, 60’)Live Performance
A live-edited documentary performance that traverses a vast terrain without leaving a tiny patch of land. Each iteration is a unique call and response between a virtual landscape and documentary footage. Set in a small 3D scanned region of the Badlands of South Dakota, voices carry you from paleontology to foraging, indigenous herbalism to nuclear arms, and wildlife management to cattle ranching. Strata layers histories, economics, natural sciences, deep time, and personal anecdotes within an immersive landscape that invites you into a meditation on the complexity embedded in all lands, and how profoundly human perspectives shape and define their futures.
Relict: A Phantasmagoria (2023, US, 35’)
Melissa Ferrari
by Melissa Ferrari (2023, US, 35’)Live Performance
An experimental documentary performed with antique magic lanterns and hand-drawn animation. Invoking the history of magic lantern phantasmagoria as an exercise in belief and perception, Relict considers the zeitgeist of pseudoscience, fake news, religion, and documentary ethics collapsed within contemporary cryptozoology.
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