Friday, May 29 and Saturday May, 30th at 8PM

TRAVELING LIGHT
New films by Laura Heit

One Minute Clip 2015 Laura Heit full film trt 3:03 Laura Heit The Mars Rover Opportunity landed in 2004 and is still roaming the red planet eleven years after it's expected demise. It's up there looking for ancient lakes, and rivers, and signs of life. Digital and hand drawn animation and still photos The sound is Mars Rover field recordings of solar wind, the amplitude changes as it crawls in and out of valleys and craters. Animation: Laura Heit Sound Design Laura Heit Distribution: Laura Heit

An evening of new films by Laura Heit including Two Ways Down (2015), Rover's Eye (2015), Apollo (2015), The Deep Dark (2011), and White Dialogues (2012)

Recent films presented by the artist, in person, feature drawn animation, depictions of hell, footage shot from space craft, disembodied heads, specters, and music by Emily Lacy and Jordan Dykstra.

Along side these new films a program of experimental animation by filmmakers and comic book artists including Crux by Lilli Carre and Alexander Stewart, Essay 1 and 4 by Julie Doucet and Jiro goes to the Dentist by Gina Kamentsky, Mound by Allison Schulnik, Down to Nothing by Jake Friedstrong

Laura Heit is an experimental filmmaker and a performance artist. Her work has been featured at museums and film festivals around the world including The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, most recently from the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR and their 2014 Innovation Award for her installation Two Ways Down which premiered at Adams and Ollman spring 2014 and was an Artforum critics pick. Heit has a BFA in Film from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London. Laura lives and works in Portland, Oregon, after many years living in Los Angeles.