Experimental filmmaker Bruce McClure visits campus Feb. 1

Cornell Cinema welcomes architect and filmmaker Bruce McClure for a unique cinematic experience Friday, Feb. 1, at 7:15 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre. Admission is $5 general/$4 students and seniors.

McClure makes work about the time-based, three-dimensional properties of light and projection. He was recently invited to be one of the featured artists in the upcoming Whitney Biennial, the Museum's signature survey of contemporary American art.

Of Friday's program of projective film work, McClure writes, "Often misconceived as abstract, these films insist on a tautological obsession with the thing and nothing other than the thing. Technically, many of the works that will be shown exist only in the uniqueness of an evening's performance and consist of modified projectors operated simultaneously. Presented to the eyes and ears, film and our experience of it, part ways, emphasizing at least two separate and real substances."

Audience members will be encouraged to move to different parts of the theater over the course of the evening, and dance students might perform with the projected light.