MILOTI Program Four (virtual) at Rhizome DC (YouTube)
Artists
Roger Beebe
Artist Bio
Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple projector performances 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 is currently a Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University where he helped launch the new Moving-Image Production major in Autumn 2017.
Video statement
"de rerum natura” is a three-part meditation on beauty in the natural world with lots of hand-wringing about whether there’s anything much to say about all that.
Nancy Kangas
Nancy Kangas is a poet and teaching artist based in Columbus. She has poetry in numerous journals and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry column, “Slides (Interpreted by Nancy),” regularly appears in Ohio Edit. She writes humor for Muse (a magazine for 9 to 14 year olds) and began her writing career editing the acclaimed Nancy’s Magazine. Organizations that have sponsored her residencies include the Ohio Arts Council, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Thurber House. Preschool Poets, which she co-directed and produced, features poems composed by some of her students.
@nancykangas
Josh Kun
Josh Kun, an award-winning director and cinematographer, studied documentary film at Chapman University in Los Angeles. For five years he traveled the United States producing short documentaries for the Dutch-based television production company, Metropolis. He is now based Columbus, and works as a freelance director of photography on a wide range of commercial and theatrical film projects.
@oakhousefilms
www.oakhousefilms.com
Arvcúken Noquis
Artist Bio
Arvcúken Noquisi is a Mvskoke & Tsalagi, trangender Native artist. They are currently a second-year undergraduate student at The Ohio State University, double majoring in Moving Image Production and Sonic Arts. Noquisi’s special interest in radio communication has culminated in an obsession with temporality and audiovisual abstraction, which they blend with their ongoing ambition to deconstruct settler-colonial structures that confine Indigenous existence and expression.
Film Statement: Este-cate
Wenaketv: to live. Andrew Jackson's army slaughtered 800 of the 1000 Muscogee Red Stick Warriors in the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The violent destruction of Indigenous bodies is embedded in the historical canon of the moving image. Film enforces the invisibility of Indigenous peoples, comforting white audiences with colonial fantasies that deny Native autonomy and continued existence.
Roger Beebe
Artist Bio
Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple projector performances 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 is currently a Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University where he helped launch the new Moving-Image Production major in Autumn 2017.
Video statement
"de rerum natura” is a three-part meditation on beauty in the natural world with lots of hand-wringing about whether there’s anything much to say about all that.
Nancy Kangas
Nancy Kangas is a poet and teaching artist based in Columbus. She has poetry in numerous journals and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry column, “Slides (Interpreted by Nancy),” regularly appears in Ohio Edit. She writes humor for Muse (a magazine for 9 to 14 year olds) and began her writing career editing the acclaimed Nancy’s Magazine. Organizations that have sponsored her residencies include the Ohio Arts Council, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Thurber House. Preschool Poets, which she co-directed and produced, features poems composed by some of her students.
@nancykangas
Josh Kun
Josh Kun, an award-winning director and cinematographer, studied documentary film at Chapman University in Los Angeles. For five years he traveled the United States producing short documentaries for the Dutch-based television production company, Metropolis. He is now based Columbus, and works as a freelance director of photography on a wide range of commercial and theatrical film projects.
@oakhousefilms
www.oakhousefilms.com
Arvcúken Noquis
Artist Bio
Arvcúken Noquisi is a Mvskoke & Tsalagi, trangender Native artist. They are currently a second-year undergraduate student at The Ohio State University, double majoring in Moving Image Production and Sonic Arts. Noquisi’s special interest in radio communication has culminated in an obsession with temporality and audiovisual abstraction, which they blend with their ongoing ambition to deconstruct settler-colonial structures that confine Indigenous existence and expression.
Film Statement: Este-cate
Wenaketv: to live. Andrew Jackson's army slaughtered 800 of the 1000 Muscogee Red Stick Warriors in the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The violent destruction of Indigenous bodies is embedded in the historical canon of the moving image. Film enforces the invisibility of Indigenous peoples, comforting white audiences with colonial fantasies that deny Native autonomy and continued existence.
Program Three sequence
Nancy Kangas and Josh Kun The Old Snake Went to Sleep on the Grass
Arvcúken Noquis Este-cate
Nancy Kangas and Josh Kun Bullets
Roger Beebe de rerum natura
Nancy Kangas and Josh Kun The Old Snake Went to Sleep on the Grass
Arvcúken Noquis Este-cate
Nancy Kangas and Josh Kun Bullets
Roger Beebe de rerum natura
About Rhizome
RhizomeDC is a nonprofit community arts space located at 6950 Maple St NW, in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington DC. We are dedicated to promoting creativity as a force for personal empowerment and community engagement. We also strive to provide a home for non-mainstream programming in the DC area. We host programs that promote creativity in all its forms. These include concerts, workshops, performances, talks, exhibitions, and demonstration projects in areas such as art, music, technology, theater, local food, poetry, as well as in more esoteric fields of knowledge. We believe it's more interesting to make your own culture than to consume culture made by others. |
We are exploring new approaches to grassroots community education which seek to blur the lines between amateur and professional, teacher and student, and which free learning from rigid models of instruction and explication.
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