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Experimental Pints & Pictures at The Lyric
Experimental Pints & Pictures
WED 14 APR
Coming Soon to
The Lyric
Experimental Pints & Pictures returns!
Join us on the outdoor screen for an evening of short experimental films created by Colorado based and Colorado influenced filmmakers. Several films in the program have been selected to screen at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, South By Southwest, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and many more.
In addition to the films being screened, we’re pleased to feature the light-based sculpture work of artist Shelby McAuliffe.
The films shown this month are:
Phantom 52 - Geoff Marslett - 2019 - 8 min
Ten Leaves Dilated - Kate E. Hinshaw - 2021 - 14 min
A Watched Cunt Never Cums - Emily Van Loan - 2019 - 3 min
Vestibular Matching Soundtrack - McKenzie Blake - 2017 - 9 min
Let Go - Blake Barit - 2020 - 8 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
The Length of Day - Laura Conway - 2021 - 18 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Dialectic - Jason Bernagozzi - 2019 - 9 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
More about the films!
The Phantom 52 - Geoff Marslett - 2019 - 8 min
Loneliness: a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes. A ghost that haunts the deserted highways. A whale that sings at a frequency no other whale can even hear.
Ten Leaves Dilated - Kate E. Hinshaw & Ebony Blanding - 2021 - 14 min
Ten Leaves Dilated is a documentary that uses the make-believe world crafted by Cabbage Patch Kids to examine discourses surrounding childbirth in the South. A household name in the 80s and 90s, Cabbage Patch Kids are plush dolls that are said to be born out of a head of cabbage. The headquarters, located in Cleveland, Georgia, offers an experience where children can watch their dolls being born through a simulated medical birth where store employees dressed as nurses act out birthing a babydoll from a cabbage patch. The film uses audio interviews of mothers, doulas, and birth professionals alongside a visual exploration of cabbage birthing myths and fairytales throughout history in order to investigate the modern-day cabbage patch fairy tale and its connection to the lack of candid discussion about birthing in our society.
A Watched Cunt Never Cums - Emily Van Loan - 2019 - 3 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
An extended metaphor that likens the visual qualities of a pot of water
coming to a boil to the experiential qualities of a woman coming to orgasm.
Emily Van Loan is an experimental filmmaker and artist. They create diaristic, autobiographical works with the intention of fostering connections between audience and maker.
Vestibular Matching Soundtrack - McKenzie Blake - 2017 - 9 min
Advances in technology also create linguistic rifts. Having been born largely deaf, a cochlear implant has provided the director access to sound, but at what cost?
McKenzie Blake is a filmmaker whose work revolves around personal memory, narratives, and found footage.
Let Go - Blake Barit - 2020 - 8 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Our human community is bonded through our relationship with death, and only when peace is made with this inevitability can one find contentment. This film and projection performance reflect life and our path back into oblivion. Mirrors bring the audience into the performance and represents the soul on it’s way to . Once our subjectivity melts away and self-hood dies, a better life lies waiting for us all. We can die together and, because of that, hopefully we can live more fully.
Blake likes to make experimental films.
Blake likes to make narrative films.
Blake likes to make films that are both experimental and narrative.
The Length of Day - Laura Conway - 2021 - 18 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic séance using archival documents to communicate with her departed communist grandparents and ask them questions about the end of capitalism. An account of the dreams, struggles, and losses of revolutionaries in the United States. As its heart is the question - how can we imagine an alternative to capitalism?
Laura Conway is a DJ and Filmmaker from Denver, CO. She makes politically grounded collage films that navigate a terrain between narration and abstraction, the grotesque and the sensual, and the cliched and still-possible. She holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Moving Image Arts. Her works have screened at venues such as Slamdance, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Museum of Human Achievement, and the Boulder International Film Series.
Dialectic - Jason Bernagozzi - 2019 - 9 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
In a space between past and present, nostalgia and jargon, signal and image, Dialectic is an experimental single channel video that explores the conditions of encoded contradiction. Set in an old 1950’s gas station museum in rural Missouri, the vintage automobiles and faded mannequins are imbued with the myth of American exceptionalism. As the video moves forward, it also moves back, causing a flickering and breakdown of the video as an electronic material unable to resolve, expressing a kind of computational poetry that finds a new state in between.
Jason Bernagozzi is an artist whose work examines and critiques the codes embedded within the psyche of media culture. His work uses the real-time features of video and electronic media as a way to engage with interdisciplinary concepts as a dialogical system of emerging languages. Bernagozzi’s work has been supported through numerous grants and awards from organizations such as the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at exhibitions such as the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruk, Germany; the Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques in Marsaille, France; the Ilman Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Jason is also a co-founder of the experimental media art non-profit organization Signal Culture. Bernagozzi sees Signal Culture as an extension of his practice, facilitating the opportunity to hack, program and reimagine the purpose of various technologies in a fluid, real-time studio. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Colorado State University.
More about the Art!
Place identity is a concept built on spatial relations; cultural and communal connections to seemingly overlooked spaces. My work appears as a narrative through inspection of repetitions and patterns of color and form. Looking at altered landscapes and commodification of nature in natural and manufactured forms. I study the relationships humans have to their surroundings and how wildlife adapts to urban areas. I am interested in investigating the coexistence of urban and natural environments. Combining the arts and the humanities through a visually engaging multimedia experience, which extends beyond the gallery walls to the immediate surroundings. My process is not to find how humans are interacting with the environment in a specific moment, but rather, to show the collapse of time as a reference to complex metaphors of human existence. Facilitating a dialogue between diverse perspectives but bringing forth a visible aspect to elements (physical, technological, and human) that interact to create our connections to place. My work examines the relations humans have to a construct of place. This method studies motivations why people care about seemingly mundane, yet specific spaces. In contemplating how humans and non-human coexist in adherence to landscape. We have a disingenuous result from warping the natural to a synthetic environment. To talk about environmental issues we bring what is outside to be viewed inside. We as viewers make this conversation while simultaneously keeping the outdoors, indoors.
Shelby McAuliffe is an interdisciplinary artist in photography and installation work. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in May 2015 with a BA in Art, emphasis in photography and a BA in French Studies. She is currently attending University of Colorado, Boulder as a candidate for her Masters of Fine Art in Photography. She has spent the last ten years photographing the environment and urban landscapes throughout various countries. Her area of focus encourages study of the relationship humans have to their surroundings and how wildlife has adapted to metropolitan areas. She is interested in investigating the coexistence of urban and natural environments. She works specifically with environmental/ecological and anthropological research. Combining the arts and the humanities through a visually engaging multi-media experience that extends beyond the gallery walls to the immediate surroundings. Recent work includes her installation of Urban Biophony exhibited most recently at the Museum of Natural History at CU Boulder, funded in part, by the Candace Garlock Curatorial Grant through the Sierra Arts Foundation and the museum. Invisible Disruptions:The cultural politics of fracking in Colorado at the Arbor Institute funded by the 2019 NEST fellowship. McAuliffe has shown work at Sierra Arts Gallery in Reno, NV, PhotoNOLA, and Araguato in Colombia, South America.
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Join us on the outdoor screen for an evening of short experimental films created by Colorado based and Colorado influenced filmmakers. Several films in the program have been selected to screen at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, South By Southwest, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and many more.
In addition to the films being screened, we’re pleased to feature the light-based sculpture work of artist Shelby McAuliffe.
The films shown this month are:
Phantom 52 - Geoff Marslett - 2019 - 8 min
Ten Leaves Dilated - Kate E. Hinshaw - 2021 - 14 min
A Watched Cunt Never Cums - Emily Van Loan - 2019 - 3 min
Vestibular Matching Soundtrack - McKenzie Blake - 2017 - 9 min
Let Go - Blake Barit - 2020 - 8 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
The Length of Day - Laura Conway - 2021 - 18 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Dialectic - Jason Bernagozzi - 2019 - 9 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
More about the films!
The Phantom 52 - Geoff Marslett - 2019 - 8 min
Loneliness: a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes. A ghost that haunts the deserted highways. A whale that sings at a frequency no other whale can even hear.
Ten Leaves Dilated - Kate E. Hinshaw & Ebony Blanding - 2021 - 14 min
Ten Leaves Dilated is a documentary that uses the make-believe world crafted by Cabbage Patch Kids to examine discourses surrounding childbirth in the South. A household name in the 80s and 90s, Cabbage Patch Kids are plush dolls that are said to be born out of a head of cabbage. The headquarters, located in Cleveland, Georgia, offers an experience where children can watch their dolls being born through a simulated medical birth where store employees dressed as nurses act out birthing a babydoll from a cabbage patch. The film uses audio interviews of mothers, doulas, and birth professionals alongside a visual exploration of cabbage birthing myths and fairytales throughout history in order to investigate the modern-day cabbage patch fairy tale and its connection to the lack of candid discussion about birthing in our society.
A Watched Cunt Never Cums - Emily Van Loan - 2019 - 3 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
An extended metaphor that likens the visual qualities of a pot of water
coming to a boil to the experiential qualities of a woman coming to orgasm.
Emily Van Loan is an experimental filmmaker and artist. They create diaristic, autobiographical works with the intention of fostering connections between audience and maker.
Vestibular Matching Soundtrack - McKenzie Blake - 2017 - 9 min
Advances in technology also create linguistic rifts. Having been born largely deaf, a cochlear implant has provided the director access to sound, but at what cost?
McKenzie Blake is a filmmaker whose work revolves around personal memory, narratives, and found footage.
Let Go - Blake Barit - 2020 - 8 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Our human community is bonded through our relationship with death, and only when peace is made with this inevitability can one find contentment. This film and projection performance reflect life and our path back into oblivion. Mirrors bring the audience into the performance and represents the soul on it’s way to . Once our subjectivity melts away and self-hood dies, a better life lies waiting for us all. We can die together and, because of that, hopefully we can live more fully.
Blake likes to make experimental films.
Blake likes to make narrative films.
Blake likes to make films that are both experimental and narrative.
The Length of Day - Laura Conway - 2021 - 18 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic séance using archival documents to communicate with her departed communist grandparents and ask them questions about the end of capitalism. An account of the dreams, struggles, and losses of revolutionaries in the United States. As its heart is the question - how can we imagine an alternative to capitalism?
Laura Conway is a DJ and Filmmaker from Denver, CO. She makes politically grounded collage films that navigate a terrain between narration and abstraction, the grotesque and the sensual, and the cliched and still-possible. She holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Moving Image Arts. Her works have screened at venues such as Slamdance, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Museum of Human Achievement, and the Boulder International Film Series.
Dialectic - Jason Bernagozzi - 2019 - 9 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
In a space between past and present, nostalgia and jargon, signal and image, Dialectic is an experimental single channel video that explores the conditions of encoded contradiction. Set in an old 1950’s gas station museum in rural Missouri, the vintage automobiles and faded mannequins are imbued with the myth of American exceptionalism. As the video moves forward, it also moves back, causing a flickering and breakdown of the video as an electronic material unable to resolve, expressing a kind of computational poetry that finds a new state in between.
Jason Bernagozzi is an artist whose work examines and critiques the codes embedded within the psyche of media culture. His work uses the real-time features of video and electronic media as a way to engage with interdisciplinary concepts as a dialogical system of emerging languages. Bernagozzi’s work has been supported through numerous grants and awards from organizations such as the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at exhibitions such as the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruk, Germany; the Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques in Marsaille, France; the Ilman Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Jason is also a co-founder of the experimental media art non-profit organization Signal Culture. Bernagozzi sees Signal Culture as an extension of his practice, facilitating the opportunity to hack, program and reimagine the purpose of various technologies in a fluid, real-time studio. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Colorado State University.
More about the Art!
Place identity is a concept built on spatial relations; cultural and communal connections to seemingly overlooked spaces. My work appears as a narrative through inspection of repetitions and patterns of color and form. Looking at altered landscapes and commodification of nature in natural and manufactured forms. I study the relationships humans have to their surroundings and how wildlife adapts to urban areas. I am interested in investigating the coexistence of urban and natural environments. Combining the arts and the humanities through a visually engaging multimedia experience, which extends beyond the gallery walls to the immediate surroundings. My process is not to find how humans are interacting with the environment in a specific moment, but rather, to show the collapse of time as a reference to complex metaphors of human existence. Facilitating a dialogue between diverse perspectives but bringing forth a visible aspect to elements (physical, technological, and human) that interact to create our connections to place. My work examines the relations humans have to a construct of place. This method studies motivations why people care about seemingly mundane, yet specific spaces. In contemplating how humans and non-human coexist in adherence to landscape. We have a disingenuous result from warping the natural to a synthetic environment. To talk about environmental issues we bring what is outside to be viewed inside. We as viewers make this conversation while simultaneously keeping the outdoors, indoors.
Shelby McAuliffe is an interdisciplinary artist in photography and installation work. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in May 2015 with a BA in Art, emphasis in photography and a BA in French Studies. She is currently attending University of Colorado, Boulder as a candidate for her Masters of Fine Art in Photography. She has spent the last ten years photographing the environment and urban landscapes throughout various countries. Her area of focus encourages study of the relationship humans have to their surroundings and how wildlife has adapted to metropolitan areas. She is interested in investigating the coexistence of urban and natural environments. She works specifically with environmental/ecological and anthropological research. Combining the arts and the humanities through a visually engaging multi-media experience that extends beyond the gallery walls to the immediate surroundings. Recent work includes her installation of Urban Biophony exhibited most recently at the Museum of Natural History at CU Boulder, funded in part, by the Candace Garlock Curatorial Grant through the Sierra Arts Foundation and the museum. Invisible Disruptions:The cultural politics of fracking in Colorado at the Arbor Institute funded by the 2019 NEST fellowship. McAuliffe has shown work at Sierra Arts Gallery in Reno, NV, PhotoNOLA, and Araguato in Colombia, South America.
Experimental Pints & Pictures returns!
Join us on the outdoor screen for an evening of short experimental films created by Colorado based and Colorado influenced filmmakers. Several films in the program have been selected to screen at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, South By Southwest, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and many more.
In addition to the films being screened, we’re pleased to feature the light-based sculpture work of artist Shelby McAuliffe.
The films shown this month are:
Phantom 52 - Geoff Marslett - 2019 - 8 min
Ten Leaves Dilated - Kate E. Hinshaw - 2021 - 14 min
A Watched Cunt Never Cums - Emily Van Loan - 2019 - 3 min
Vestibular Matching Soundtrack - McKenzie Blake - 2017 - 9 min
Let Go - Blake Barit - 2020 - 8 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
The Length of Day - Laura Conway - 2021 - 18 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Dialectic - Jason Bernagozzi - 2019 - 9 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
More about the films!
The Phantom 52 - Geoff Marslett - 2019 - 8 min
Loneliness: a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes. A ghost that haunts the deserted highways. A whale that sings at a frequency no other whale can even hear.
Ten Leaves Dilated - Kate E. Hinshaw & Ebony Blanding - 2021 - 14 min
Ten Leaves Dilated is a documentary that uses the make-believe world crafted by Cabbage Patch Kids to examine discourses surrounding childbirth in the South. A household name in the 80s and 90s, Cabbage Patch Kids are plush dolls that are said to be born out of a head of cabbage. The headquarters, located in Cleveland, Georgia, offers an experience where children can watch their dolls being born through a simulated medical birth where store employees dressed as nurses act out birthing a babydoll from a cabbage patch. The film uses audio interviews of mothers, doulas, and birth professionals alongside a visual exploration of cabbage birthing myths and fairytales throughout history in order to investigate the modern-day cabbage patch fairy tale and its connection to the lack of candid discussion about birthing in our society.
A Watched Cunt Never Cums - Emily Van Loan - 2019 - 3 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
An extended metaphor that likens the visual qualities of a pot of water
coming to a boil to the experiential qualities of a woman coming to orgasm.
Emily Van Loan is an experimental filmmaker and artist. They create diaristic, autobiographical works with the intention of fostering connections between audience and maker.
Vestibular Matching Soundtrack - McKenzie Blake - 2017 - 9 min
Advances in technology also create linguistic rifts. Having been born largely deaf, a cochlear implant has provided the director access to sound, but at what cost?
McKenzie Blake is a filmmaker whose work revolves around personal memory, narratives, and found footage.
Let Go - Blake Barit - 2020 - 8 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Our human community is bonded through our relationship with death, and only when peace is made with this inevitability can one find contentment. This film and projection performance reflect life and our path back into oblivion. Mirrors bring the audience into the performance and represents the soul on it’s way to . Once our subjectivity melts away and self-hood dies, a better life lies waiting for us all. We can die together and, because of that, hopefully we can live more fully.
Blake likes to make experimental films.
Blake likes to make narrative films.
Blake likes to make films that are both experimental and narrative.
The Length of Day - Laura Conway - 2021 - 18 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic séance using archival documents to communicate with her departed communist grandparents and ask them questions about the end of capitalism. An account of the dreams, struggles, and losses of revolutionaries in the United States. As its heart is the question - how can we imagine an alternative to capitalism?
Laura Conway is a DJ and Filmmaker from Denver, CO. She makes politically grounded collage films that navigate a terrain between narration and abstraction, the grotesque and the sensual, and the cliched and still-possible. She holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Moving Image Arts. Her works have screened at venues such as Slamdance, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Museum of Human Achievement, and the Boulder International Film Series.
Dialectic - Jason Bernagozzi - 2019 - 9 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
In a space between past and present, nostalgia and jargon, signal and image, Dialectic is an experimental single channel video that explores the conditions of encoded contradiction. Set in an old 1950’s gas station museum in rural Missouri, the vintage automobiles and faded mannequins are imbued with the myth of American exceptionalism. As the video moves forward, it also moves back, causing a flickering and breakdown of the video as an electronic material unable to resolve, expressing a kind of computational poetry that finds a new state in between.
Jason Bernagozzi is an artist whose work examines and critiques the codes embedded within the psyche of media culture. His work uses the real-time features of video and electronic media as a way to engage with interdisciplinary concepts as a dialogical system of emerging languages. Bernagozzi’s work has been supported through numerous grants and awards from organizations such as the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at exhibitions such as the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruk, Germany; the Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques in Marsaille, France; the Ilman Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Jason is also a co-founder of the experimental media art non-profit organization Signal Culture. Bernagozzi sees Signal Culture as an extension of his practice, facilitating the opportunity to hack, program and reimagine the purpose of various technologies in a fluid, real-time studio. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Colorado State University.
More about the Art!
Place identity is a concept built on spatial relations; cultural and communal connections to seemingly overlooked spaces. My work appears as a narrative through inspection of repetitions and patterns of color and form. Looking at altered landscapes and commodification of nature in natural and manufactured forms. I study the relationships humans have to their surroundings and how wildlife adapts to urban areas. I am interested in investigating the coexistence of urban and natural environments. Combining the arts and the humanities through a visually engaging multimedia experience, which extends beyond the gallery walls to the immediate surroundings. My process is not to find how humans are interacting with the environment in a specific moment, but rather, to show the collapse of time as a reference to complex metaphors of human existence. Facilitating a dialogue between diverse perspectives but bringing forth a visible aspect to elements (physical, technological, and human) that interact to create our connections to place. My work examines the relations humans have to a construct of place. This method studies motivations why people care about seemingly mundane, yet specific spaces. In contemplating how humans and non-human coexist in adherence to landscape. We have a disingenuous result from warping the natural to a synthetic environment. To talk about environmental issues we bring what is outside to be viewed inside. We as viewers make this conversation while simultaneously keeping the outdoors, indoors.
Shelby McAuliffe is an interdisciplinary artist in photography and installation work. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in May 2015 with a BA in Art, emphasis in photography and a BA in French Studies. She is currently attending University of Colorado, Boulder as a candidate for her Masters of Fine Art in Photography. She has spent the last ten years photographing the environment and urban landscapes throughout various countries. Her area of focus encourages study of the relationship humans have to their surroundings and how wildlife has adapted to metropolitan areas. She is interested in investigating the coexistence of urban and natural environments. She works specifically with environmental/ecological and anthropological research. Combining the arts and the humanities through a visually engaging multi-media experience that extends beyond the gallery walls to the immediate surroundings. Recent work includes her installation of Urban Biophony exhibited most recently at the Museum of Natural History at CU Boulder, funded in part, by the Candace Garlock Curatorial Grant through the Sierra Arts Foundation and the museum. Invisible Disruptions:The cultural politics of fracking in Colorado at the Arbor Institute funded by the 2019 NEST fellowship. McAuliffe has shown work at Sierra Arts Gallery in Reno, NV, PhotoNOLA, and Araguato in Colombia, South America.
Join us on the outdoor screen for an evening of short experimental films created by Colorado based and Colorado influenced filmmakers. Several films in the program have been selected to screen at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, South By Southwest, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and many more.
In addition to the films being screened, we’re pleased to feature the light-based sculpture work of artist Shelby McAuliffe.
The films shown this month are:
Phantom 52 - Geoff Marslett - 2019 - 8 min
Ten Leaves Dilated - Kate E. Hinshaw - 2021 - 14 min
A Watched Cunt Never Cums - Emily Van Loan - 2019 - 3 min
Vestibular Matching Soundtrack - McKenzie Blake - 2017 - 9 min
Let Go - Blake Barit - 2020 - 8 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
The Length of Day - Laura Conway - 2021 - 18 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Dialectic - Jason Bernagozzi - 2019 - 9 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
More about the films!
The Phantom 52 - Geoff Marslett - 2019 - 8 min
Loneliness: a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes. A ghost that haunts the deserted highways. A whale that sings at a frequency no other whale can even hear.
Ten Leaves Dilated - Kate E. Hinshaw & Ebony Blanding - 2021 - 14 min
Ten Leaves Dilated is a documentary that uses the make-believe world crafted by Cabbage Patch Kids to examine discourses surrounding childbirth in the South. A household name in the 80s and 90s, Cabbage Patch Kids are plush dolls that are said to be born out of a head of cabbage. The headquarters, located in Cleveland, Georgia, offers an experience where children can watch their dolls being born through a simulated medical birth where store employees dressed as nurses act out birthing a babydoll from a cabbage patch. The film uses audio interviews of mothers, doulas, and birth professionals alongside a visual exploration of cabbage birthing myths and fairytales throughout history in order to investigate the modern-day cabbage patch fairy tale and its connection to the lack of candid discussion about birthing in our society.
A Watched Cunt Never Cums - Emily Van Loan - 2019 - 3 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
An extended metaphor that likens the visual qualities of a pot of water
coming to a boil to the experiential qualities of a woman coming to orgasm.
Emily Van Loan is an experimental filmmaker and artist. They create diaristic, autobiographical works with the intention of fostering connections between audience and maker.
Vestibular Matching Soundtrack - McKenzie Blake - 2017 - 9 min
Advances in technology also create linguistic rifts. Having been born largely deaf, a cochlear implant has provided the director access to sound, but at what cost?
McKenzie Blake is a filmmaker whose work revolves around personal memory, narratives, and found footage.
Let Go - Blake Barit - 2020 - 8 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Our human community is bonded through our relationship with death, and only when peace is made with this inevitability can one find contentment. This film and projection performance reflect life and our path back into oblivion. Mirrors bring the audience into the performance and represents the soul on it’s way to . Once our subjectivity melts away and self-hood dies, a better life lies waiting for us all. We can die together and, because of that, hopefully we can live more fully.
Blake likes to make experimental films.
Blake likes to make narrative films.
Blake likes to make films that are both experimental and narrative.
The Length of Day - Laura Conway - 2021 - 18 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic séance using archival documents to communicate with her departed communist grandparents and ask them questions about the end of capitalism. An account of the dreams, struggles, and losses of revolutionaries in the United States. As its heart is the question - how can we imagine an alternative to capitalism?
Laura Conway is a DJ and Filmmaker from Denver, CO. She makes politically grounded collage films that navigate a terrain between narration and abstraction, the grotesque and the sensual, and the cliched and still-possible. She holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Moving Image Arts. Her works have screened at venues such as Slamdance, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Museum of Human Achievement, and the Boulder International Film Series.
Dialectic - Jason Bernagozzi - 2019 - 9 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
In a space between past and present, nostalgia and jargon, signal and image, Dialectic is an experimental single channel video that explores the conditions of encoded contradiction. Set in an old 1950’s gas station museum in rural Missouri, the vintage automobiles and faded mannequins are imbued with the myth of American exceptionalism. As the video moves forward, it also moves back, causing a flickering and breakdown of the video as an electronic material unable to resolve, expressing a kind of computational poetry that finds a new state in between.
Jason Bernagozzi is an artist whose work examines and critiques the codes embedded within the psyche of media culture. His work uses the real-time features of video and electronic media as a way to engage with interdisciplinary concepts as a dialogical system of emerging languages. Bernagozzi’s work has been supported through numerous grants and awards from organizations such as the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at exhibitions such as the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruk, Germany; the Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques in Marsaille, France; the Ilman Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Jason is also a co-founder of the experimental media art non-profit organization Signal Culture. Bernagozzi sees Signal Culture as an extension of his practice, facilitating the opportunity to hack, program and reimagine the purpose of various technologies in a fluid, real-time studio. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Colorado State University.
More about the Art!
Place identity is a concept built on spatial relations; cultural and communal connections to seemingly overlooked spaces. My work appears as a narrative through inspection of repetitions and patterns of color and form. Looking at altered landscapes and commodification of nature in natural and manufactured forms. I study the relationships humans have to their surroundings and how wildlife adapts to urban areas. I am interested in investigating the coexistence of urban and natural environments. Combining the arts and the humanities through a visually engaging multimedia experience, which extends beyond the gallery walls to the immediate surroundings. My process is not to find how humans are interacting with the environment in a specific moment, but rather, to show the collapse of time as a reference to complex metaphors of human existence. Facilitating a dialogue between diverse perspectives but bringing forth a visible aspect to elements (physical, technological, and human) that interact to create our connections to place. My work examines the relations humans have to a construct of place. This method studies motivations why people care about seemingly mundane, yet specific spaces. In contemplating how humans and non-human coexist in adherence to landscape. We have a disingenuous result from warping the natural to a synthetic environment. To talk about environmental issues we bring what is outside to be viewed inside. We as viewers make this conversation while simultaneously keeping the outdoors, indoors.
Shelby McAuliffe is an interdisciplinary artist in photography and installation work. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in May 2015 with a BA in Art, emphasis in photography and a BA in French Studies. She is currently attending University of Colorado, Boulder as a candidate for her Masters of Fine Art in Photography. She has spent the last ten years photographing the environment and urban landscapes throughout various countries. Her area of focus encourages study of the relationship humans have to their surroundings and how wildlife has adapted to metropolitan areas. She is interested in investigating the coexistence of urban and natural environments. She works specifically with environmental/ecological and anthropological research. Combining the arts and the humanities through a visually engaging multi-media experience that extends beyond the gallery walls to the immediate surroundings. Recent work includes her installation of Urban Biophony exhibited most recently at the Museum of Natural History at CU Boulder, funded in part, by the Candace Garlock Curatorial Grant through the Sierra Arts Foundation and the museum. Invisible Disruptions:The cultural politics of fracking in Colorado at the Arbor Institute funded by the 2019 NEST fellowship. McAuliffe has shown work at Sierra Arts Gallery in Reno, NV, PhotoNOLA, and Araguato in Colombia, South America.
Experimental Pints & Pictures
WED 14 APR
Coming Soon to
The Lyric
Experimental Pints & Pictures returns!
Join us on the outdoor screen for an evening of short experimental films created by Colorado based and Colorado influenced filmmakers. Several films in the program have been selected to screen at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, South By Southwest, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, and many more.
In addition to the films being screened, we’re pleased to feature the light-based sculpture work of artist Shelby McAuliffe.
The films shown this month are:
Phantom 52 - Geoff Marslett - 2019 - 8 min
Ten Leaves Dilated - Kate E. Hinshaw - 2021 - 14 min
A Watched Cunt Never Cums - Emily Van Loan - 2019 - 3 min
Vestibular Matching Soundtrack - McKenzie Blake - 2017 - 9 min
Let Go - Blake Barit - 2020 - 8 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
The Length of Day - Laura Conway - 2021 - 18 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Dialectic - Jason Bernagozzi - 2019 - 9 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
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The Phantom 52 - Geoff Marslett - 2019 - 8 min
Loneliness: a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes. A ghost that haunts the deserted highways. A whale that sings at a frequency no other whale can even hear.
Ten Leaves Dilated - Kate E. Hinshaw & Ebony Blanding - 2021 - 14 min
Ten Leaves Dilated is a documentary that uses the make-believe world crafted by Cabbage Patch Kids to examine discourses surrounding childbirth in the South. A household name in the 80s and 90s, Cabbage Patch Kids are plush dolls that are said to be born out of a head of cabbage. The headquarters, located in Cleveland, Georgia, offers an experience where children can watch their dolls being born through a simulated medical birth where store employees dressed as nurses act out birthing a babydoll from a cabbage patch. The film uses audio interviews of mothers, doulas, and birth professionals alongside a visual exploration of cabbage birthing myths and fairytales throughout history in order to investigate the modern-day cabbage patch fairy tale and its connection to the lack of candid discussion about birthing in our society.
A Watched Cunt Never Cums - Emily Van Loan - 2019 - 3 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
An extended metaphor that likens the visual qualities of a pot of water
coming to a boil to the experiential qualities of a woman coming to orgasm.
Emily Van Loan is an experimental filmmaker and artist. They create diaristic, autobiographical works with the intention of fostering connections between audience and maker.
Vestibular Matching Soundtrack - McKenzie Blake - 2017 - 9 min
Advances in technology also create linguistic rifts. Having been born largely deaf, a cochlear implant has provided the director access to sound, but at what cost?
McKenzie Blake is a filmmaker whose work revolves around personal memory, narratives, and found footage.
Let Go - Blake Barit - 2020 - 8 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Our human community is bonded through our relationship with death, and only when peace is made with this inevitability can one find contentment. This film and projection performance reflect life and our path back into oblivion. Mirrors bring the audience into the performance and represents the soul on it’s way to . Once our subjectivity melts away and self-hood dies, a better life lies waiting for us all. We can die together and, because of that, hopefully we can live more fully.
Blake likes to make experimental films.
Blake likes to make narrative films.
Blake likes to make films that are both experimental and narrative.
The Length of Day - Laura Conway - 2021 - 18 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic séance using archival documents to communicate with her departed communist grandparents and ask them questions about the end of capitalism. An account of the dreams, struggles, and losses of revolutionaries in the United States. As its heart is the question - how can we imagine an alternative to capitalism?
Laura Conway is a DJ and Filmmaker from Denver, CO. She makes politically grounded collage films that navigate a terrain between narration and abstraction, the grotesque and the sensual, and the cliched and still-possible. She holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Moving Image Arts. Her works have screened at venues such as Slamdance, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Museum of Human Achievement, and the Boulder International Film Series.
Dialectic - Jason Bernagozzi - 2019 - 9 min *FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
In a space between past and present, nostalgia and jargon, signal and image, Dialectic is an experimental single channel video that explores the conditions of encoded contradiction. Set in an old 1950’s gas station museum in rural Missouri, the vintage automobiles and faded mannequins are imbued with the myth of American exceptionalism. As the video moves forward, it also moves back, causing a flickering and breakdown of the video as an electronic material unable to resolve, expressing a kind of computational poetry that finds a new state in between.
Jason Bernagozzi is an artist whose work examines and critiques the codes embedded within the psyche of media culture. His work uses the real-time features of video and electronic media as a way to engage with interdisciplinary concepts as a dialogical system of emerging languages. Bernagozzi’s work has been supported through numerous grants and awards from organizations such as the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at exhibitions such as the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruk, Germany; the Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques in Marsaille, France; the Ilman Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Jason is also a co-founder of the experimental media art non-profit organization Signal Culture. Bernagozzi sees Signal Culture as an extension of his practice, facilitating the opportunity to hack, program and reimagine the purpose of various technologies in a fluid, real-time studio. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Colorado State University.
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Place identity is a concept built on spatial relations; cultural and communal connections to seemingly overlooked spaces. My work appears as a narrative through inspection of repetitions and patterns of color and form. Looking at altered landscapes and commodification of nature in natural and manufactured forms. I study the relationships humans have to their surroundings and how wildlife adapts to urban areas. I am interested in investigating the coexistence of urban and natural environments. Combining the arts and the humanities through a visually engaging multimedia experience, which extends beyond the gallery walls to the immediate surroundings. My process is not to find how humans are interacting with the environment in a specific moment, but rather, to show the collapse of time as a reference to complex metaphors of human existence. Facilitating a dialogue between diverse perspectives but bringing forth a visible aspect to elements (physical, technological, and human) that interact to create our connections to place. My work examines the relations humans have to a construct of place. This method studies motivations why people care about seemingly mundane, yet specific spaces. In contemplating how humans and non-human coexist in adherence to landscape. We have a disingenuous result from warping the natural to a synthetic environment. To talk about environmental issues we bring what is outside to be viewed inside. We as viewers make this conversation while simultaneously keeping the outdoors, indoors.
Shelby McAuliffe is an interdisciplinary artist in photography and installation work. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in May 2015 with a BA in Art, emphasis in photography and a BA in French Studies. She is currently attending University of Colorado, Boulder as a candidate for her Masters of Fine Art in Photography. She has spent the last ten years photographing the environment and urban landscapes throughout various countries. Her area of focus encourages study of the relationship humans have to their surroundings and how wildlife has adapted to metropolitan areas. She is interested in investigating the coexistence of urban and natural environments. She works specifically with environmental/ecological and anthropological research. Combining the arts and the humanities through a visually engaging multi-media experience that extends beyond the gallery walls to the immediate surroundings. Recent work includes her installation of Urban Biophony exhibited most recently at the Museum of Natural History at CU Boulder, funded in part, by the Candace Garlock Curatorial Grant through the Sierra Arts Foundation and the museum. Invisible Disruptions:The cultural politics of fracking in Colorado at the Arbor Institute funded by the 2019 NEST fellowship. McAuliffe has shown work at Sierra Arts Gallery in Reno, NV, PhotoNOLA, and Araguato in Colombia, South America.
