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Join us Thursday, November 21, at 6 pm, for a screening of Deborah Stratman’s Last Things (2022, US/Portugal/France, 50 min., digital), which screens as part of our Nature’s Underworld Film Series, featuring eight films inspired by the exhibition Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld, and our Whole Grain: Experiments in Film and Video program.Last Things looks at evolution and extinction from the perspective of the rocks and minerals that came before humanity and will outlast us. With scientists and thinkers like Lynn Margulis and Marcia Bjørnerud as guides and quoting from the proto-Sci-fi texts of J.H. Rosny, artist Deborah Stratman offers a stunning array of images, from microscopic forms to vast landscapes, and seeks a picture of evolution without humans at the center.
“An entrancing blend of hard science and ephemeral existentialism.” – Michael Fox, KQED
“Stratman’s haunting, iridescent work of science-nonfiction actively decenters the human perspective, narrating the history and the speculative future of the universe with rocks as its protagonists.” – Devika Girish, Film Comment
To explore more of this Whole Grain and the Nature's Underworld Film Series click here: https://tang.skidmore.edu/calendar/2361-natures-underworld-film-series-last-things-2022
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Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, United States
