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Arkadin Cinema & Bar

Roger Beebe: Films for One to Eight Projectors

Come see the archive come alive as artist and teacher Roger Beebe brings his 16mm multi-projector performances to St. Louis. Beebe repurposes vintage classroom films and other moving image effluvia into a visual feast for the eyes and mind.

The program features several newer works (un arbre (2024, 4 x 16mm + video), Lineage (for Norman McLaren) (2019, 4 x 16mm), de rerum natura (2019, 3 x 16mm + video), Home Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry (2021, 4 x 16mm), alongside some of his best-known projector performances (including the seven-projector show-stopping Last Light of a Dying Star (2008/2011). Beebe will also include a sampling of recent essayistic videos.

More Information & Tickets
This event will take place at the Arkadin Cinema, 5228 Gravois Ave, St. Louis, MO 63116. Tickets are available for $5 and can be purchased directly through the Arkadin’s website.

Roger Beebe is a filmmaker whose work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple-projector performances and essayistic videos that explore the world of found images and the “found” landscapes of late capitalism. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Art and Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at The Ohio State University.