Bill Basquin: From Inside of Here with Lori Goldston and Phil Perkins @ The Lab

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Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm
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From Inside of Here is a feminist ethnographic landscape film that communicates the structure of 19th century landscape photography as well as the violence that is its context. The film uses soundscape and landscape to explore vulnerability and inter-connection through the lens of an ecosystem and through the body of the filmmaker.

The film is comprised of multiple media: 16mm film, HD video, infrared stills, inter-titles, and sound recordings.

The place itself is a character in the film, as are the filmmaker’s methods. Over the course of three years and eight camping trips, the filmmaker filmed on location in the Gila National Forest in the New Mexico - the only people encountered were elk hunters and government agents suspicious of his California license plates and reasons for being there.

The Gila is a site for the reintroduction of the endangered Mexican Grey Wolf; the species was hunted and poisoned to near extinction by the US Biological Survey in the early 1900s. The US Biological Survey is a direct predecessor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (an insight from Michael J. Robinson's Predatory Bureaucracy), which is the agency now responsible for re-establishing the species.

For this live version of From Inside of Here, filmmaker Bill Basquin will be performing narration and Lori Goldston will be performing with cello.

Bill Basquin’s sculpture Scent Posts (For Carolee Schneeman) is featured in The Lab’s current exhibition, the wet and the dry, on view Fri-Sat from 12pm-5pm