Saturday, April 20, 2024, 8:00 pm, classic-editor, classic-editor,
DAVID COX: TRAUM EUROPA + LASLEY + RHODY/SMITH +
The second half of our Neo-Geo double-header is all about the world-at-LARGE, with a dozen expansive cine-essays, ranging from the Sri Lanka civil war to Texas-toasted digital dystopias. Mission maestro David Cox anchors the evening with his exploded-tabletop live-triagrammed Traum Europa, an enacted micro/meta-history of Europe‘s shifting relations of Nation and Identity. Closer to home, tho still Great Plains-otherworldly, Justin Rhody and Abby Smith are here in person, back from from Santa Fe with their tableaux vivant poem Interior Frontier. Their New Mexico comrade Ben Kujawski‘s also here in the flesh, with his sublimely soulful Empty House, and Valencia/Clarion Alley veteran Julie Murray shares her Chicago souvenir Haversine. Coming down from Humboldt State, we welcome Sarah Lasley, whose 3-D animation clues us to our future virtual-realities, while Rajee Samarasinghe‘s Strangers reminds us of the utter human-scale poignancy of lived moments in the Indian sub-continent. PLUS Ann Deborah Levy‘s Rain Painting, sky-tram dollies into the Alps, Canadian oil-wastelands, and more. $11