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Tickets: (812) 855-1103
Shorts
Program
Directed by
Jan Svankmajer
Friday
August 31
6:30 p.m.
See page 14 for
full description.
(35mm and Digital.
77 min. Not rated.)
UNDERGROUND
Film Series
Two Years at Sea
(2011)
Directed by Ben Rivers
Friday - September 21 - 6:30 p.m.
Ben Rivers has created a unique body of
work in contemporary avant-garde cinema
with his experimental documentaries about
wilderness spaces and the unusual people
who engage with them. Two Years at Sea
depicts Jake, a man who lives alone in the
forests of Scotland, as he carves out a life
all his own. Often working in black-and-
white 16mm film, sometimes using expired
stocks and shooting with handwound Bolex
cameras, Rivers frequently highlights the
relationships between cinematic time and
the unconventional temporal structures
within which his subjects exist, and the
artisanal look of his images neatly mirrors
the handmade life that Jake has built.
(35mm. 88 min. Not rated.)
Tickets: (812) 855-1103
This series is presented in partnership with the Indiana University Department of
Communication and Culture and Film and Media Studies. Thanks to the Under-
ground programming team that includes Mark Benedetti, Laura Ivins-Hulley, Natasha
Ritsma, Andy Uhrich, Russell Sheaffer and Joan Hawkins. Screenings are free, but ticketed.
Derek Jarman Super-8 Films
(2011) Directed by Derek Jarman
Friday - September 28 - 6:30 p.m.
Best known for his allusive, elliptical feature films, Derek Jarman also made Super-8 films
throughout his filmmaking career. Numbering more than two dozen, these films vary widely in style,
theme, and tone, yet, like many Super-8 experimental films, they tend toward the personal and
the autobiographical. As with his features, Jarman's Super-8 films often incorporate elements from
classics and mythology, blending these with small moments to produce a continuous movement
between the epic and the everyday and between the temporal structures of the grand narrative and
the miniature moment. (Digital. 54 min. Not rated.)
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