(61 minutes)

SLIFF presents a program surveying new and recent work by Van McElwee, including world premieres of “The Map Is the Territory” and “Unnatural Selection.” St. Louis’ premier video
artist, McElwee is a professor of electronic and photographic media at Webster University and has produced an award-winning body of work that includes more than 90 single-channel pieces, installations, and web projects.

●Half-Real (2010, 8 min.): A visual echo of the brain’s processing of older impressions into totally new forms.

●The Map Is the Territory (2019, 10 min.): A world map flows into alternate realities, with coastlines drifting and borders shifting, as a radio searches through an endless spectrum.

●Original Self(2013, 11 min.): A procession branches into clouds of variation; one as many, many as one.

●Unnatural Selection (2019, 23 min.): Images of fragile membranes, broken boundaries, and ethereal plumbing.

●Z-Grid (2019, 6 min.): Depth is hijacked and used as an imaginal space, shared by artist and viewer.

With filmmaker Van McElwee.