Roger Beebe

Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple-projector performances and essayistic videos that explore the world of found images and the "found" landscapes of late capitalism. He has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including Sundance and the Museum of Modern Art with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, The Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, and Los Angeles Filmforum among many other venues. Beebe is also a film programmer: he ran Flicker, a festival of small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and was the founder and Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film Festival from 2004-2014. He teaches in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University.

Brief Statement about the work featured in the exhibition

This iteration of “Last Light of a Dying Star” returns it after 14 years primarily as a multi-projector theatrical performance to its origins as an installation (originally at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, GA).  The installation attempts to recapture some of the strangeness and wonder of space (in a moment where billionaire space tourism has become the norm) while also meta-meditating on the end of the era of 16mm educational films and the decay of the physical material of the film.