Kent Lambert and Jesse McLean: Have to Believe We Are Magic
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, September 23rd, at 6PM
Haunting and hilarious by turns, the works of Chicago artists Kent Lambert and Jesse McLean remix the banal debris of television culture into striking meditations on our mediated public sphere. In 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 the age of international terror. McLean considers the possibility for genuine connection within the blur of televised emotion in her Bearing Witness trilogy–THE ETERNAL QUARTER INCH (2008), THE BURNING BLUE (2009), and SOMEWHERE WE ONLY KNOW (2009). This evening also features a brand new collaboration between the two and the North American premiere of McLean’s tricky MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS (2010), among others.
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