Two New Films by Jodie Mack

This program screens for free at UT’s Downtown Gallery. Times listed below.

Acclaimed experimental filmmaker Jodie Mack, a visiting artist at Big Ears 2016, will again be a focus of our programming, this time with a looping installation of her two latest films, including her first feature-length work, the hugely entertaining ethnographic musical, The Grand Bizarre. Propelled by an original electronic score mixed by Mack herself, The Grand Bizarre zooms us through the textiles industries of more than a dozen different countries on multiple continents, animating the patterns and objects she photographed – local rugs, neckerchiefs, posters, and everything in between – with her dazzling, trademark stop-motion technique. Weaving through work days and night shifts, the film offers an invigorating look at the present state of art and life in the age of mass production.

Along with the feature, we’ll also be presenting Mack’s latest short, Hoarders Without Borders, a stroboscopic journey through Mary Johnson’s mineral collection at Harvard’s Mineralogical and Geological Museum. The six-minute film pulsates through its single-frame glimpses of hundreds of different stones and geodes to produce a stunning, flickering explosion of light. Together, these two films serve to provide even more evidence of Mack’s status as one of contemporary cinema’s most eclectic and electrifying artists.

These two films will screen as a 75-minute loop

Hoarders Without Borders (2018
6 minutes

The Grand Bizarre
61 minutes

Screening Times

Friday, March 1, 2019
Join us for First Friday
5:15-6:30
6:30-7:45
7:45-9:00

Saturday, March 9, 2019
10:00-11:15
11:15-12:30
12:30-1:45
1:45-3:00

Saturday, March 16, 2019
10:00-11:15
11:15-12:30
12:30-1:45
1:45-3:00

Sunday, March 24, 2019
12:00-1:15
1:15-2:30
2:30-3:45
3:45-5:00