![Still from The Burning Blue (Jesse McLean, 2009)
This thursday’s Conversations at the Edge at the Gene Siskel Film Center will feature films by Kent Lambert and UIC’s own Jesse McLean
Haunting and hilarious by turns, the videos 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 works like 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–The Eternal Quarter Inch (2008), The Burning Blue (2009), andSomewhere Only We Know (2009)–McLean sifts through televangelist sermons and Space Shuttle lift-offs to consider the possibility for genuine human connection within a blur of televised emotion. This evening’s program features the North American premiere of McLean’s Magic for Beginners (2010) and a brand-new collaboration between the two.
[Conversations at the Edge]
Jesse McLean and Kent Lambert will be in attendance to talk about their films as well. The screening starts at 6:00 P.M.
see you there!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l94hnzsjcB1qa09w5o1_500.png)
Still from The Burning Blue (Jesse McLean, 2009)
This thursday’s Conversations at the Edge at the Gene Siskel Film Center will feature films by Kent Lambert and UIC’s own Jesse McLean
Haunting and hilarious by turns, the videos 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 works like 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–The Eternal Quarter Inch (2008), The Burning Blue (2009), andSomewhere Only We Know (2009)–McLean sifts through televangelist sermons and Space Shuttle lift-offs to consider the possibility for genuine human connection within a blur of televised emotion. This evening’s program features the North American premiere of McLean’s Magic for Beginners (2010) and a brand-new collaboration between the two.
[Conversations at the Edge]
Jesse McLean and Kent Lambert will be in attendance to talk about their films as well. The screening starts at 6:00 P.M.
see you there!
