{"id":4382,"date":"2012-03-19T09:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:34:38","slug":"brent-green-gravity-was-everywhere-back-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2012\/03\/19\/brent-green-gravity-was-everywhere-back-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>March 29, 6:00 p.m. &amp; March 31, 12:30 p.m.<\/strong> | <em>Brent Green in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2012\/01\/BGreen_Gravity2010_WEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4174\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2012\/01\/BGreen_Gravity2010_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Brent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then (2010). Courtesy the artist.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p>Brent  Green\u2019s folk-punk films interweave drawing, puppets, hand-built sets,  and stop-motion animation to spin tales of transformation and loss. For two appearances Green presents his acclaimed animated feature <em>Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then<\/em> (2010).  Based on the true story of a Kentucky hardware clerk who attempted to  transform his house into an eccentric healing machine to save his dying  wife from cancer, the film was shot in a full-scale model of the house  Green built in his rural outdoor studio in Pennsylvania. Mirroring the  architecture of the house itself, <em>Gravity <\/em>is a crazy-quilt of fantastic imagery, fabulist narration, and themes of love, obsession, and spirituality. <strong>2010, USA, Blu-Ray, 75 minutes + discussion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the Thursday, March 29 screening are limited so be sure to get them early. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.siskelfilmcenter.org\/content\/tickets\">Visit the Gene Siskel Film Center&#8217;s website for box office and ticket information.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presented  in collaboration with SAIC\u2019s Visiting Artists Program, which features a FREE \u00a0lecture with live musical accompaniment by Brent Green on March 28,  6:00 p.m., The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 S.  Columbus Dr. In addition to screening his feature, Green will also discuss his practice in a FREE hybrid lecture-performance Wednesday, March 28. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saic.edu\/art_design\/vap\/index.html#current_series\/SLC_38429\">SAIC&#8217;s Visiting Artists Program website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRENT GREEN<\/strong> (b. 1978, Baltimore) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and storyteller.  Green\u2019s films have screened at MoMA, The Getty, Walker Art Center,  Rotterdam Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. His sculptures  and film sets have appeared in solo exhibitions at the ASU Art Museum,  Site Santa Fe, and the Berkeley Art Museum, among others. His latest  EMPAC commissioned work, Too Many Men Strange Fates Are Given, a multimedia sculpture featuring a new hand-drawn animation, premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/site.nervousfilms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brent Green&#8217;s website<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, 6:00 p.m. &amp; March 31, 12:30 p.m. | Brent Green in person! Brent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then (2010). Courtesy the artist. Brent Green\u2019s folk-punk films interweave drawing, puppets, hand-built sets, and stop-motion animation to spin tales of transformation and loss. For two appearances Green presents his acclaimed animated feature Gravity Was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2012\/03\/19\/brent-green-gravity-was-everywhere-back-then\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":4174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[70,211,468,615],"class_list":["post-4382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17","tag-animation","tag-experimental","tag-performance","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382","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\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8633,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/8633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}