{"id":3886,"date":"2011-03-14T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T22:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:44:03","slug":"the-disappointment-or-the-force-of-credulity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2011\/03\/14\/the-disappointment-or-the-force-of-credulity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disappointment: Or, The Force of Credulity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, March 17, 6:00 pm<\/strong><em> | Brian Springer in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2011\/01\/BSpringer_TheDisappintmentSmall1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3663\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2011\/01\/BSpringer_TheDisappintmentSmall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/em> <\/em><\/dt>\n<dd>\n<address><em><em>The Disappointment; Or, The Force of Credulity (Brian Springer, 2007). Courtesy the artist.<\/em><\/em><\/address>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><em>\u201cAn unexpected masterpiece.\u201d \u2014 Grady Hendrix, New York Sun<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Best known for his scathing news media expos\u00e9 <em>Spin<\/em> (1995), Brian Springer\u2019s latest film is a labyrinthine, semi-autobiographical documentary about the search for four disparate treasures buried on his family\u2019s farm in Missouri. These include gold coins left behind by a 16th century Spanish explorer; silver from the Civil War; the legendary lost diary of anarchist Kate Austin, who lived on the farm in the 1890s; and a mysterious limestone sculpture of dubious origin. Springer interweaves the stories surrounding these treasures with those of his family to spin a tale of spirit possession, Napalm, Indian massacres, early American opera, fanatical obsessions, 200 tons of dirt, and the way mothers try to protect their families from wounds that never heal. At its core, The Disappointment meditates on the ways history is passed along, altered, and sometimes lost through archeological findings. Tonight\u2019s screening will be introduced by writer Brian Holmes. Co-presented by the Video Data Bank. 2007, Brian Springer, USA, Beta SP video, 70 mins plus discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRIAN SPRINGER<\/strong> (b. 1959, Kansas) studied video at the State University of New York at Buffalo and received his MFA in Art from the University of California Santa Barbara. While in Buffalo, Springer worked with a group of artists to create Squeaky Wheel, a nationally respected grassroots media arts center. Springer\u2019s work has been shown at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Germany, the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Whitney Museum (NYC), the Institute for Contemporary Art (London), and the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and has been broadcast nationally in the UK. He currently lives in Ohio, where he works in the public schools through the Ohio Arts Council\u2019s arts residency program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 17, 6:00 pm | Brian Springer in person! The Disappointment; Or, The Force of Credulity (Brian Springer, 2007). Courtesy the artist. \u201cAn unexpected masterpiece.\u201d \u2014 Grady Hendrix, New York Sun Best known for his scathing news media expos\u00e9 Spin (1995), Brian Springer\u2019s latest film is a labyrinthine, semi-autobiographical documentary about the search for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2011\/03\/14\/the-disappointment-or-the-force-of-credulity\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from The Disappointment: Or, The Force of Credulity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":3652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[169,211,450,615],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-16","tag-diary","tag-experimental","tag-non-fiction","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9981,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/9981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}