Slant Step Forward Film Screening & Student Spotlight
Thursday, October 17, 2019
6:30pm
Slant Step Forward exhibition related 16mm double feature: Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob and The Great Blondino
Works from the Slant Step-inspired multiples exchange between California State University Sacramento and Virginia Commonwealth University students
Hosted by curator, Francesca Wilmott
Films from the Canyon Cinema Foundation
Projectionist, Dan Janos
Thursday, October 17, 2019
From 6:30-7:30 pm, Verge will have a special spotlight of the collaborative Slant Step-inspired works made by students in the class of professors Summer Ventis at CSUS and Brooke Inman at VCU. The cross-country multiples exchange also opens at VCUarts Anderson Gallery in Richmond, VA on the same evening.
The film program begins at 7:30 pm and includes an introduction by Liv Moe and Francesca Wilmott, and remarks by Ethan Wiley, son of Dorothy Wiley and William T. Wiley.
Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob is a personal look at the lives of five California painters, sculptors and filmmakers at home with their families, at work in the studio, teaching, fishing, drawing, attending parties, openings, etc. The sound is a collage of commentary and music by the artists mixed with impressions from friends and acquaintances.
Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley, USA, 1971, 1 h 10m
The Great Blondino follows an anachronistically attired young fellow as he navigates a beguiling, sometimes troubling world with a curiosity that opens us wide to the filmmakers’ inspired, freeform vision. Shooting without script, story, or any narrative preconception, Robert Nelson and William Wiley created a masterwork of 1960s independent cinema.
Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley, USA, 1967, 42m
TICKETS
Student spotlight is free and open to all
Purchase tickets for the films at https://vergeart.ejoinme.org/slantstepdoublefeature, calling (916) 448-2985, or by visiting the gallery
Free for Verge Members with advanced registration
$9 General Admission
$7 Seniors/Students