{"id":8328,"date":"2020-02-10T20:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T03:34:04","slug":"feb-13-lori-felker-intrusions-and-interruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2020\/02\/10\/feb-13-lori-felker-intrusions-and-interruptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 13 &#8211; Lori Felker: Intrusions and Interruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 300\"><i><em style=\"font-weight: 300\">Lori Felker in person<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8299\" style=\"width: 725px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8299 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2020\/02\/2_13-Lori-Felker-still-from-I-Can\u2019t-2020.-Courtesy-of-the-artist_2_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2020\/02\/2_13-Lori-Felker-still-from-I-Can\u2019t-2020.-Courtesy-of-the-artist_2_0.jpg 725w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2020\/02\/2_13-Lori-Felker-still-from-I-Can\u2019t-2020.-Courtesy-of-the-artist_2_0-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Felker, still from I Can&#8217;t (2020). Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300\">Known for genre-bending explorations of human relationships, award-winning filmmaker Lori Felker (MFA 2007) debuts a collection of slippery, semiautobiographical tales of motherhood, miscarriages, and missing people. In <i><em>Spontaneous<\/em><\/i>\u00a0(2020) she charts the loss of her pregnancy during the Slamdance Film Festival premiere of her short\u00a0<i><em>Discontinuity<\/em><\/i>\u00a0(2016), highlighting the chasm between her body\u2019s slow-moving tragedy and the celebrity-studded celebrations around her.\u00a0<i><em>Not You<\/em><\/i>\u00a0(2020), starring both Felker and her daughter, relays the disorienting experience of new motherhood.<i><em>\u00a0I Can\u2019t\u00a0<\/em><\/i>(2020) is an angry elegy produced on the occasion of a friend\u2019s untimely passing. Felker presents these alongside a selection of earlier works, including\u00a0<i><em>Discontinuity<\/em><\/i>\u00a0and the haunting\u00a0<i><em>Memoria Data<\/em><\/i>\u00a0(2018), among others, and discusses her overall practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300\">2016\u201320, United States, DCP, ca 75 minutes followed by discussion.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Lori Felker\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">is a filmmaker, artist, teacher, programmer, and performer based in Chicago. Her moving image work focuses on the ways in which we process, share, and disseminate information, via screens, dreams, gestures, games, and dialogue. Felker\u2019s work has screened internationally, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands; New York Film Festival; VideoEx, Zurich; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan; Festival du nouveau cin\u00e9ma, Montreal; Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal; Los Angeles Filmforum; BAMcinemaFest, New York; Space Gallery, Pittsburgh. She is an Illinois Arts Council Agency Artist Project grant recipient, a Wexner Center artist in residence, and a Fulbright Fellow. Felker is currently an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lori Felker in person Known for genre-bending explorations of human relationships, award-winning filmmaker Lori Felker (MFA 2007) debuts a collection of slippery, semiautobiographical tales of motherhood, miscarriages, and missing people. In Spontaneous\u00a0(2020) she charts the loss of her pregnancy during the Slamdance Film Festival premiere of her short\u00a0Discontinuity\u00a0(2016), highlighting the chasm between her body\u2019s slow-moving [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2020\/02\/10\/feb-13-lori-felker-intrusions-and-interruptions\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Feb 13 &#8211; Lori Felker: Intrusions and Interruptions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":8299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[649],"tags":[782,115,225,423,450,516,615],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-649","tag-autobiography","tag-chicago","tag-feminist","tag-monographic-shows","tag-non-fiction","tag-saic-alumni","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328","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\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9643,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions\/9643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}