Q&A w/ the artist via live chat at 8:30pm ET
WATCH LINK will appear at 7:15pm ET here:
https://microscopegallery.com/janie-geiser-reverse-shadow/

Microscope is very pleased to present an online screening of films and
videos by LA-based, experimental filmmaker and artist Janie Geiser,
including the premiere of her most recent work *Reverse Shadow* (2019) and
the 40-minute series *The Nervous Films*, consisting of five works
completed between 2009 and 2012.

The Nervous Films series includes four films shot with a 16mm Bolex camera
— “Ghost Algebra,” “Kindless Villain,” “The Floor of the World,” and
“Arbor” — as well as the video “Ricky,” incorporating imagery from medical
illustrations, nature, found footage and objects, among others,
photographed frame-by-frame and frequently superimposed in camera. The
highly evocative, oneiric compositions often carry unsettling undertones,
with associations to the world wars, power, anatomy of the human body,
bingo cards, lost memories, and the anxiety of the passage of time.

*Reverse Shadows*, which concludes the night, was inspired by an actual
dream and is permeated by an “atmosphere of suspended apprehension,” with
scenes of hunters pointing at birds, WWII planes flying over red
landscapes, and tumultuous rivers set to a soundtrack masterly collaged by
the artist using fragments from Cold War’s number station broadcasts, an
Edison audio recording of Irving’s story “Rip Van Winkle,” and other
appropriated sound excerpts at times digitally reversed.
More info & full program notes:
https://microscopegallery.com/janie-geiser-reverse-shadow/

Admission $8
Members $6

The program remains watchable through Thursday July 2, 10:30pm ET
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