The AgX Film Collective is excited to present Inland Cinema, a program of experimental film cultivated in the rich soil, dark forests and clear waters of the Great Inland North, featuring work by filmmakers based in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Guest curator and filmmaker Kevin Obsatz of Cellular Cinema and Spectral Microcinema will attend in person for a post-screening discussion with AgX member and filmmaker Raymond Rea.
FILM PROGRAM - order subject to change
13th Ave Fargo Mine Cart | Minnesota/North Dakota | 3 min | Super 8 to digital | Raymond Rea
Shot on one Midwestern big box store strip. There may be one that’s very similar in your town. Conversation with a friend during the drive is our only redemption.
Travel Stop | Iowa | 16 min | 16mm to digital | Mike Gibisser
Shot at the World's Largest Truckstop in Walcott, Iowa, the film contemplates the interiors of a Midwestern highway rest stop, creating an essayistic portrait of a familiar site of travel and transience. With attention fixed on the ideological overtones pressed to the surface in the objects for sale, Travel Stop examines how identity is called upon, regressed, emptied, overburdened, or parceled when traversing the non-places along the US interstate.
Aberdeen | South Dakota | 12 min | 16mm to digital | Kevin Obsatz and Kristen Froebel
A road movie about a brass band traveling to a music festival in a mattress warehouse in South Dakota… OR, the band members may inhabit an underworld purgatory of broken musical instruments. Aberdeen was filmed with a Bolex, shot in black and white 16mm, and hand-processed, messily, in buckets of photo chemistry in a darkroom.
Field Resistance | Iowa | 16 min | 16mm to digital | Emily Drummer
Charging scenes of the present with dystopian speculation, Field Resistance teases the boundaries between documentary and science fiction to investigate overlooked environmental devastation in the flyover state of Iowa.
Dislocation Blues | North Dakota | 17 min | digital | Sky Hopinka
Filmed during the 2016 Standing Rock protests in North Dakota, Sky Hopinka’s Dislocation Blues offers a portrait of the movement and its water protectors, refuting grand narratives and myth-making in favor of individual testimonials.
(Total Program Run Time: 64 minutes)
Doors open at 6:30PM - Show at 7:00PM
Seating is first-come, first served.
Admission is free, however a $5-10 suggested donation is encouraged. Donations will be split between the guest artist and AgX. Donations help support future film programming at AgX.
Masks/facial coverings are required