My Stars (2021) by Jon Behrens
Sunday, September 8, 2024, 7:00 pm
Analog Dreaming
Jon Behrens Revisited
Presented in association with the Shapeshifters Cinema
Admission: $15 General / $13.50 Cinematheque Members
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Analog Dreaming, curated by Kornelia Boczkowska and sponsored by the Interbay Cinema Society, celebrates the vast legacy of one of the Pacific Northwest’s most prolific filmmakers and composers, the late Seattle-based artist Jon Behrens (1964-2022). Showcasing his unique experiments with image, sound and celluloid—from silent studies in light, color and water and cinematic abstractions to landscapes, cityscapes, NASA images and Hollywood movies—the program demonstrates a remarkable diversity of Behrens’ films, which are both simple and complex, lyrical and psychedelic as well as meditative and visually challenging. Since the late 1970s, Behrens made well over 100 films using different formats, styles and approaches, ranging from short documentaries, narratives and diaries to found footage, hand painted and optically printed films. Behrens’ work is a living proof of his genuine love and passion for experimental film, his lifelong mission of supporting analog filmmakers and his numerous contributions to the filmmaking community through the Interbay Cinema Society, the Lightpress Grants program, Engauge Experimental Film Festival and other initiatives. The program features a selection of Behrens’ films, including the world premiere of three unreleased films. (Shapeshifters Cinema)