Plenty 5: O’er The Land
Tuesday 8 March 2011, 19h-21h
Event Gallery
96 Teesdale Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PU

- O’er The Land (Deborah Stratman, USA, 2009, 16mm, colour, sound, 52 minutes)

Marine Corps pilot William Rankin ejected from his jet into a severe thunderstorm, surviving lightening strikes in a 40-minute descent. 50 years later, his account is the starting point for a contemplation of American national identity that takes in revolutionary war re-enactments, high school football games, gun shows, firefighters and border patrols. Deborah Stratman (born 1967) is a Chicago-based artist working in photography, sound, drawing and installation. Her films use experimental and documentary techniques to explore an interest in landscapes, mythologies and systems.
Free Admission. Small space. Arrive early. Doors 19h. Film 19:30h.

The screening series Plenty proposes a new way of looking at artists’ films by showing only a single work, regardless of its duration. Each film is given the freedom to unfold on its own terms, and the viewer is given the time and space to consider it. Plenty is a free monthly screening series selected by Mark Webber. It forms part of the “Brief Habits” programme curated by Shama Khanna.