Alternative Cinema Viewing: Questions of Scale, Artifice, Public Spaces and the Aesthetics of Shrinking Attention Spans

Alternative Cinema Viewing:
Questions of Scale, Artifice, Public Spaces and the Aesthetics of Shrinking Attention Spans

Friday, February 8 at 5:00 pm
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor

Artist-scholar in residence in Cinema Studies Laurie O’Brien is a multi-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, performance and animation.  Her films and installations have screened and been shown in galleries nationally and internationally. She is the creator of the Peephole Cinema, a “miniature cinema” collective with satellite projects in three cities:  San Francisco, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles.  In each city, silent film shorts are screened 24/7 through a dime-sized peephole installed in a public location.