An Evening with OpenEndedGroup: Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kais…

An Evening with OpenEndedGroup: Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kaiser

The three artists who comprise OpenEndedGroup join us to screen and discuss their pioneering works of experimental 3-D film. In a wide-ranging program featuring recent and new films, the artists present their advances in two broad areas. In dance, they conjure up the presence of longtime collaborator Merce Cunningham through the cat’s-cradle movement of his motion-captured hands; in evocations of place, they transform a stretch of rural Iowa highway into a flickering film universe; haunt the galleries, corridors, and stairways of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; and track the city of Detroit through its fractured industrial ruins and the circular patterns of its outdated modernity. Screenings include Loops (2001–11); plant (2011); All Sides of the Road (2012); and All Day, Knight’s Rest, and Circling Detroit (all 2013).