Benj Gerdes’ thesis video from 2009, Strike Anywhere (HD, 32min) is playing in D.C. and the related film Populus Tremula (16mm, 9min) is playing in Astoria. Both pieces were made in collaboration with Jennifer Hayashida and showing at at the Museum of the Moving Image and in D.C. at the National Gallery. The work is from last summer’s Flaherty Seminar.
Screening Info:
June 4, 6PM
Populus Tremula
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
Screening as part of “Work: Selections from the Robert Flaherty Seminar”
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2011/06/04/detail/tropic-of-cancer
June 4, 2PM
Strike Anywhere
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Screening as part of “In Praise of Independents: The Flaherty”
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/theflaherty.shtm
Project descriptions and video:
http://www.clnswp.org/2010/02/populus-tremula/
http://www.clnswp.org/2009/05/strike-anywhere/