Beauty and the Glitch

7pm • Friday, March 23, 2018 • Robin Theatre, 1105 S Washington Ave, Lansing

Beauty and the Glitch celebrates contemporary digital animation’s power to confound, provoke, and mesmerize. From the hypnotic neural landscapes of Munro Ferguson’s Minotaur (2014) to the deeply personal low-poly anguish of David OReilly’s Please Say Something (2009), this program seeks to unleash the beauty of the glitch in all its ever-morphing refractions. The pulsating poetry of The Waves (Marta di Francesco, 2016) meets the convulsive viscerality of Ryan (Chris Landreth, 2004) and the cacophonous dreamwork of The Sun Like a Big Dark Animal (Christina Felisgrau and Ronnie Rivera, 2014). Digital disruptions entwine, tangle, and branch off of each other in a latticework of stunning imperfection.

—Programmed by Misha Mihailova

Broad Underground is an ongoing collaboration between the MSU Broad, Film Studies program, and Department of English at MSU. This year’s partnering venue is The Robin Theatre in REO Town, Lansing, with special thanks to the Lansing Public Media Center.

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