 Have to Believe We Are Magic: Videos by Kent Lambert and Jesse McLean
Thursday, September 23, 6:00 p.m.
Kent Lambert and Jesse McLean in person!
Gene Siskel Film Center
(162 N. State / 312.846.2600)
Still from "Magic for Beginners" (Jesse McLean, 2010). Image courtesy of the artist.
By turns haunting and hilarious, the works of Chicago artists Kent Lambert and Jesse McLean remix the banal debris of television culture into striking meditations on our highly mediated public sphere. In Security Anthem (2003), Hymn of Reckoning (2006), and Sunset Coda (2006), Lambert culls footage from Lost , his own home movies, and the vocal stylings of former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to explore the vagaries of national security in this current age of international terror. In her Bearing Witness trilogy, comprised of The Eternal Quarter Inch (2008), The Burning Blue (2009), and Somewhere Only We Know (2009), McLean considers the possibility for genuine human connection within a blur of televised emotion. This evening also features a brand-new collaboration between the two, as well as the North American premiere of McLean's Magic for Beginners (2010), among others. Kent Lambert and Jesse McLean, 2003-10, USA, multiple formats, ca. 80 min (plus discussion).
KENT LAMBERT (1976, Colorado Springs, CO) lives and works in Chicago. His videos have been screened at festivals around the world and at such venues as Other Cinema in San Francisco and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. His pop band Roommate will release its third album, titled Guilty Rainbow, in early 2011.
JESSE MCLEAN (1975, Philadelphia, PA) grew up in Pennsylvania, studied art at Oberlin College, and received her MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was the winner of the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist at the 2010 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Besides Ann Arbor, she has shown her work at the Venice Film Festival, Dallas VideoFest, San Francisco International Film Festival, Onion City Film and Video Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Migrating Forms at Anthology Film Archives, Art Chicago, PDX Festival, FLEX, and the Director's Lounge in Berlin. She lives and works in Chicago, where she teaches part-time at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
CATE is organized by the School of the Art Institute's Department of Film, Video, New Media & Animation collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank.
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
9/30 - Rosa Menkman: Glitched (Rosa Menkman in person!)
10/7 - Bruce Bickford's World (Bruce Bickford in person!)
10/14 - Internal Systems: Films by Coleen Fitzgibbon (Coleen Fitzgibbon in person!)
10/21 - Luis Gispert: Hyperreal (Luis Gispert in person!)
10/28 - Under the Cement, Sediment: Recent Video In and Around China (Curator Pablo de Ocampo in person!)
11/4 - Civil Status: Films by Alina Rudnitskaya (Alina Rudnitskaya in person!)
11/11 - Erie (Kevin Jerome Everson in person!)
11/18 - Reenactments (Curator Irina Botea in person!)
12/2 - The Unstable Object (Daniel Eisenberg in person!)
LOCATION AND TICKETS
Programs take place Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State), unless otherwise noted.
CATE is now FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID. Tickets are $10 General public, $5 Film Center members, $7 students, and $4 SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute of Chicago staff.
Any person with a disability who would like to request an accommodation for this program should contact the Disability and Learning Resource Center at dlrc@saic.edu or 312.499.4278 as soon as possible to allow adequate time to make proper arrangements.
About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
A leader in educating artists, designers, and scholars since 1866, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) offers nationally accredited undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate programs to nearly 3,200 students from across the globe. Located in the heart of Chicago, SAIC's educational philosophy is built upon a multidisciplinary approach to art and design, giving students unparalleled opportunities to develop their creative and critical abilities, while working with renowned faculty who include many of the leading practitioners in their fields. SAIC's resources include the Art Institute of Chicago and its new Modern Wing; numerous special collections and programming venues provide students with exceptional exhibitions, screenings, lectures, and performances. For more information, please visit www.saic.edu
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