Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016
Oct 28, 2016–Feb 5, 2017
Sandra Gibson
30
As part of the Dreamlands film series, Sandra Gibson’s films screen in Death Is Green, a program of films that explore the arc of the natural world’s evolution from the primeval environment to the Anthropocene. Animated Hollywood dinosaurs, fossil traders and scientists try to reconstruct the plot of natural history. Black ice and storms threaten imminent collapse. Film buried then excavated from a landfill, images created from decomposition, and abandoned technologies turn dig sites into crime scenes.
This screening takes place on January 22, 2017. Learn more.
Sandra Gibson (b. 1968), still from NYC Flower Film, 2003
Sandra Gibson, NYC Flower Film, 2003. Super-8 film, color, silent, 5 min.. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from George Kaufman 2004.642. © Sandra Gibson. Photo: Dai Nakamura