Join us for a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Stephanie Barber, in person.
Multi-discipline artist Stephanie Barber is renowned for her playful approach to language and moving image. She returns to the National Gallery this spring to present a program of several new and recent films, including Another Horizon, “where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, a promised place where these two elements come together. A metaphor, an orienting, a promise of transition, change, transcendence” (2020, 9 minutes); and Oh, My Homeland, about “identity, love, power, patriotism and the … potential of art through the viewing of a face receiving adoration. A minimal gesture akin to the practice every portrait painter or mother recognizes as ineffably powerful” (2019, 4 minutes); among other titles. All quotes are by the artist. All titles will be shown in 16mm format. Total running time is approximately 70 minutes.
About the artist
Stephanie Barber has created a poetic, conceptual, and philosophical body of work in a variety of media, often literary/visual hybrids that dissolve boundaries between narrative, essay, and dialectic. Her work considers the basic philosophical questions of human and non-human existence with play and humor. Barber’s films and videos have been screened nationally and internationally in solo and group shows at galleries, museums, and festivals including MoMA; Tate Modern; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Paris Cinematheque; the Walker Art Center; MOCA Los Angeles; and the Wexner Center for Art. Barber is currently the head of the department of film and digital cinema at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. She is also a resident artist at the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Mount Royal School of Art and a teaching artist for the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and Image Text Ithaca.
Part of the ongoing film series Art Films and Special Screenings.