Roots & Culture

Roots & Culture

Past screenings.

[Andy Roche: Dream Jogger] The first screening took place on December 9, and featured a program of work by Andy Roche. Andy screened his recent film, TETEDEMORT, which is an exploration of remnants of New Age ideology and Catholic tradtions in the midwest. Also screening was Andy's 2005 film "Born to Live Life," which won Best Documentary at the 2005 Iowa Documentary Film Festival, and the premiere of a new piece entitled Harpo: Don't Shoot the Powder.

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[Inge Hoonte: The Quotidian and the Imaginary] Our second screening was the February 3 show of recent work by by Dutch artist Inge Hoonte, a SAIC alum now living in Brooklyn. The event featured a short play by Inge set at Atomix coffee shop in Chicago as well as the screening of a documentary about one-room schoolhouses in rural Canada and her collection of video vignettes "Anything is Inside Everything," which was a part of her 2006 MFA exhibition at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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[Xander Marro] April 15. 8:00 pm. Hailing from Providence, RI, Marro is a puppet maker and film maker and a part of the Dirt Palace art collective. For her Roots & Culture screening, Marro’s 16mm live-action puppet films introduce her particular blend of hand-made craft, bohemian psychedelia and fantastical whimsy. Isemond tells the story of a goose and a girl who use magic to thwart the advances of capitalist gentrification. Marro’s alter-ego Lady Long Arms navigates mind-bending Alice-in-Wonderland realms in The Further Adventures of Lady Long Arms in the Land of Love. The program also features two abstract films, L’Eye and Pattern of Ritual, that employ a fusion of psychedelic craft and experimental-film opticality. In both narrative and non-narrative contexts, Xander Marro’s films offer an engaging taste of contemporary self-made filmmaking with a Providence flavor.

[Chelsea Knight: Small Fantasies] May 12. 8:30 pm. Chelsea will be presenting a selection of video works made over the past three years. Her pieces navigate a peculiar territory between documentary and staged narrative: some characters offer spontaneous confessions for Chelsea's camera, others perform scripted dialog based on another character's confessions, and still others enact entirely fictional scenes. Her work visits topics as varied as the fictional death of her parents, the subtleties of Italian as a second language, and the enchanting of a United Nations lawyer.

Current screenings.



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		Roots & Culture Past screenings. *[Andy Roche: Dream Jogger]* The first screening took place on December 9, and featured a program of work by Andy Roche. Andy screened his recent film, TETEDEMORT, which is an exploration of remnants of New Age ideology and Catholic tradtions in the midwest. Also screening was Andy's 2005 film "Born to Live Life," which won Best Documentary at the 2005 Iowa Documentary Film Festival, and the premiere of a new piece entitled Harpo: Don't Shoot the Powder. *[Inge Hoonte: The Quotidian and the Imaginary]* Our second screening was the February 3 show of recent work by by Dutch artist Inge Hoonte, a SAIC alum now living in Brooklyn. The event featured a short play by Inge set at Atomix coffee shop in Chicago as well as the screening of a documentary about one-room schoolhouses in rural Canada and her collection of video vignettes "Anything is Inside Everything," which was a part of her 2006 MFA exhibition at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [Xander Marro] April 15. 8:00 pm. Hailing from Providence, RI, Marro is a puppet maker and film maker and a part of the Dirt Palace art collective. For her Roots & Culture screening, Marro’s 16mm live-action puppet films introduce her particular blend of hand-made craft, bohemian psychedelia and fantastical whimsy. Isemond tells the story of a goose and a girl who use magic to thwart the advances of capitalist gentrification. Marro’s alter-ego Lady Long Arms navigates mind-bending Alice-in-Wonderland realms in The Further Adventures of Lady Long Arms in the Land of Love. The program also features two abstract films, L’Eye and Pattern of Ritual, that employ a fusion of psychedelic craft and experimental-film opticality. In both narrative and non-narrative contexts, Xander Marro’s films offer an engaging taste of contemporary self-made filmmaking with a Providence flavor. *[Chelsea Knight: Small Fantasies]* May 12. 8:30 pm. Chelsea will be presenting a selection of video works made over the past three years. Her pieces navigate a peculiar territory between documentary and staged narrative: some characters offer spontaneous confessions for Chelsea's camera, others perform scripted dialog based on another character's confessions, and still others enact entirely fictional scenes. Her work visits topics as varied as the fictional death of her parents, the subtleties of Italian as a second language, and the enchanting of a United Nations lawyer. Current screenings.

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