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SUMMARY:Filmforum 50: Barbara T. Smith - The 21st Century Odyssey
LOCATION:2220 Arts + Archives
DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles Filmforum\, EZTV\, and Hollywood Entertainment pres
 ent Filmforum 50\, program 14: The 21st Century Odyssey\, with co-director
  Barbara T. Smith in conversation with Michael J. Masucci.\n\nThe film’s
  two chapters will be presented with a short intermission featuring intern
 ational snacks from some of the countries visited in the film.\n\nProgram 
 notes and complete info at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/\n\n∆\n\n*The 21
 st Century Odyssey* is a video travelogue through love\, liberatory techno
 logy\, social and personal mythology\, and the pleasures and rigors of mak
 ing life into art told in part through the pixelated beauty of the videoph
 one. Though rarely screened\, it is a rich and resonant chapter in the leg
 endary Barbara T. Smith’s careerlong experiments with machine innovation
 . Her partnership with Kate Johnson and EZTV documents an epic befitting t
 heir shared goals of evolving and synthesizing video art and performance a
 rt’s past and future. The film’s patient veneration of the quotidian a
 longside the grand coupled with the ache of long-term romantic longing re-
 embodies the interpretive act of translating this two-year-plus durational
  performance project into its video form.\n\nThe film sees Smith from 1991
  through 1993 sending photo messages to her lover\, physician Roy Walford
 \, while he is sealed inside the Biosphere 2 and serving as its resident p
 hysician. Highlighting the newly-available and newly-aesthetically-permeab
 le availability of transmissions via broadcast and teleconference by the E
 lectronic Cafe International in Santa Monica\, the film spans four contine
 nts and even the subject’s college reunion. Smith and Johnson’s result
 ing document of a durational performance is a stirring and strange tale of
  Smith as Odysseus. Unlike her inspiration\, she can reach her (doctor) Pe
 nelope via semi-frequent messages. But the resulting tensions of their ava
 nt-garde and at-times intangible communication creates new permeations of 
 distance-via-intimacy that are being newly defined as they happen\, resona
 ting profoundly in the world that these pioneers created for us. This is d
 ocumentary as video art\, love as performance piece\, and a must-see for a
 dmirers of Smith\, Johnson\, and EZTV.\n\nSpecial thanks to Mara McCarthy 
 and The Box.\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/event/l877vl-filmforum-50-barbara
 -t-smith-the-21st-century-odyssey-17th-oct-2220-arts-archives-los-angeles-
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