{"id":9109,"date":"2023-03-30T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9109"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:15:37","slug":"mar-30-deborah-stratman-last-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2023\/03\/30\/mar-30-deborah-stratman-last-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Stratman: Last Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 30, 6:00 and 8:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Deborah Stratman, Last Things 2023, Courtesy of the artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cFuses the heart of a poet with the mind of a scientist.\u201d \u2013 Chris Stults,\u00a0ArtForum<\/em><\/p>\n

Award-winning filmmaker and School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Deborah Stratman\u2019s (BFA 1990) latest film is a profound exploration of the past and future of Earth through one of its most elemental materials\u2014rocks. Meditating on our planet\u2019s dramatic physical and biochemical evolution, Stratman weaves together sci-fi and sci-fact to imagine a time where life endures but humans have disappeared. Featuring a breathtaking array of sources, including J.-H\u00a0 Rosny\u2019s turn-of-the-century speculative fictions about rock-like organisms, interviews with renowned geologist and environmental activist Marcia Bj\u00f8rnerud, revelatory micro photography, and earthly observation, LAST THINGS asks us to ponder our place in this cosmic history and among the innumerable life forms our planet has produced.\u00a0Stratman will introduce the 6:00 p.m. screening.\u00a0Afterward, she will be\u00a0 joined by\u00a0her research collaborator, the writer Sukhdev Sandhu,\u00a0to discuss the ideas and questions that informed the project.<\/em><\/p>\n

Presented in partnership with\u00a0the\u00a033rd Onion City Experimental Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0as the festival\u2019s official opening night screening. The Onion City Experimental Film Festival is a production of\u00a0Chicago Filmmakers<\/a>. The festival runs from March 30 to April 5.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

2023, USA, 50 minutes plus discussion
\nFormat: 16mm on digital
\nIn French and English with English subtitles<\/p>\n

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ABOUT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Deborah Stratman<\/strong>\u00a0makes films and artworks that question power, control, and belief, considering how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. She regards sound as the ultimate multi-tool and time to be supernatural. Recent projects have addressed freedom, surveillance, broadcast, sinkholes, comets, raptors, orthoptera, levitation, exodus, evolution, sisterhood, and faith.\u00a0 Stratman\u2019s work has been exhibited and awarded internationally for the past three decades. She lives in Chicago where she teaches at the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n

Sukhdev Sandhu<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0London Calling: How Black and South Asian Writers Imagined A City<\/em>\u00a0(HarperCollins),\u00a0I’ll Get My Coat\u00a0<\/em>(Book Works),\u00a0Night Haunts<\/em>\u00a0(Verso), and\u00a0Other Musics<\/em>\u00a0(MoMA). His writings\u2014on documentary and international film, experimental music, and migrant aesthetics\u2014have appeared in journals such as\u00a0Film Comment<\/em>,\u00a0Frieze<\/em>,\u00a0Artforum<\/em>,\u00a0Art in America<\/em>,\u00a0Wire<\/em>, 4 Columns, The\u00a0Guardian<\/em>, and\u00a0S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/em>. He is an associate professor at New York University where he also directs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 30, 6:00 and 8:30 p.m. \u201cFuses the heart of a poet with the mind of a scientist.\u201d \u2013 Chris Stults,\u00a0ArtForum Award-winning filmmaker and School of the Art Institute of Chicago alum Deborah Stratman\u2019s (BFA 1990) latest film is a profound exploration of the past and future of Earth through one of its most […]<\/p>\n

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