Third Party Gallery Screening Series: Staring Eyes
STARING EYES #5: The Pulse Below The Ear
Saturday, February 23rd
8-11 PM
Free
February's Staring Eyes screening regales us with stories about the distinct pleasures and limitations of our eyes and our ears. Featuring Alison O'Daniel's feature-length film Night Sky and Nancy Andrew's short Behind The Eyes Are The Ears, both films ask us to expand our cinematic vocabulary with their narratives of altered perceptions and thwarted expectations, playing with our most fundamental sensory experience of film.
Nancy Andrews' Behind The Eyes Are The Ears mixes puppetry, found footage and live action to recount a tale of man's study of the unknown, filtered through ethnographic and horror film conventions. Alison O'Daniel's Night Sky tells several stories at once, casting diegetic and live sound as a dominant character. Night Sky is a hybrid of several types of narratives—"road movies, buddy films, sci-fi and queer narratives—but the language of the film emerges around the ambiguous relationship between the [protagonists], one of whom is deaf."
Night Sky will be accompanied in part by a live musical score performed by Jarrod Welling Cann and Rob Ritter, of the Cincinnati bands Sleeping Sea and Bear (the Ghost).
As always, Staring Eyes screenings are free and open to all ages. It is still winter and Third Party is an artist-run space, meaning: please dress warmly. We'll try and do our part to keep you comfortable by providing some hot drinks and popcorn.
Don't miss this one, it may very well bring down the house!
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ALISON O'DANIEL is a LA based filmmaker. Her films enact a sensory experience on the body of the viewer through a combination of subtle and pronounced transformations of narrative filmmaking and the cinematic experience. Characters willingness to encounter the unknown becomes a model for the viewer’s own rootless journey into language, relationship and environment. She teaches at Otis College of Art and Design and is a recipient of the 2011 California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, a Puffin Foundation grant, and the Agnes Gund Fellowship.
Description of Night Sky: "The film was conceived and produced in collaboration with a cast of performers, artists, filmmakers and musicians, half of whom are deaf and half of whom are hearing/non-signing. O’Daniel worked closely with Jules Dameron, who started Deaf Women In Film in order to locate her collaborators from that community. This film centers on two women, Cleo (played by Deaf actress Evelina Gaina) and Jay (played by Jeanne-Marie Mandell). Cleo is deaf, Jay is hearing and they take a road trip to the California desert near Joshua Tree, where they receive a cosmic message by touching vibrational surfaces during the course of a sound bath. Simultaneous to their travels, there is a dance contest happening in a parallel universe, where wherein the touch of dancers’ hands affects the music being played by the Los Angeles duo Lucky Dragons. A deaf dog is the only character that traverses both planes of existence -- through a membrane delineated by a hula hoop." (Whitehot Magazine)
Trailer: (http://vimeo.com/12865622)
Interview: (http://artforum.com/words/id=30099)
More: (http://www.alisonodaniel.com/)
NANCY ANDREWS lives on the coast of Maine, where she makes films, drawings, props and objects. She works in hybrid forms combining storytelling, documentary, animation, puppetry, and research. Her characters and narratives are synthesized from various sources, including history, movies, popular educational materials and autobiography. Her work has been presented by the Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive, and Ann Arbor Film Festival, among others.
More: (www.nancyandrews.net)
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