Harry Dodge's The Time-Eaters: World Premiere
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The Time-Eaters follows the orientation of a freshly-minted human to earthly matters, both fleshly and phantasmagorical. This orientation, delivered by an ambiguously-gendered guide, is essentially a monologue that plays with comedic and narrative conventions while also exploring foundational questions about language: its relationship to knowledge, time, abstraction, experience, communication, and intimacy. As the title suggests, the video is also interested in the surfeit of information currently at our disposal, the time we take in downloading it, and the relationships forged by human animals in its haze. Featuring Angela McGuire and Phil Davis. (2014, Dir. Harry Dodge, 41 min.)
The Fudgesicle
The Time-Eaters will be preceded by a short piece from 2004, The Fudgesicle, a solo performative video in which Dodge, playing a fudgesicle, parries with an unseen interlocutor in a stripped-down, monochromatic setting. The deceptively puerile premise eventually serves as a container for an effervescent (and existential) meditation on shape, legibility, and the limits of articulation. (2013, Dir. Harry Dodge, 9 min. 23 sec.)
A Q&A with Harry Dodge and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer follows the screening.
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Harry Dodge, The Time-Eaters , 201439 min. -
Harry Dodge, The Time-Eaters, 201439 min. -
Harry Dodge, The Time-Eaters, 201439 min. -
Harry Dodge, The Time-Eaters, 201439 min. -
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