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This screening includes A Scanner Darkly and The Sound of Science: The Brain

Date and time:: Wed, March 30, 2022, From 7–8:48 pm
Runtime:: 1 hr 48 min
Cost:: $4

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Composer Graham Reynolds is scheduled to be present.

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Due to our limited screening schedule and currently reduced seating capacity, we strongly encourage patrons to buy tickets online in advance to avoid getting sold out.
No standby or late seating.

Called “the quintessential modern composer” by the London Independent, Austin-based composer-bandleader-improviser Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs, and concert halls, with collaborators ranging from Richard Linklater and Jack Black to DJ Spooky and Jeffrey Zeigler. He recently scored Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette for Annapurna Pictures; an upcoming projected directed by and starring Katie Holmes, Happy Jail for Netflix; the Rude Mechs’ Stop Hitting Yourself for Lincoln Center Theater; Ballet Austin’s Grimm Tales; and a multi-year commission from Ballroom Marfa, The Marfa Triptych. Amidst his many other projects, Graham also serves as the artistic director of the new music-focused non-profit Golden Hornet. In 2020, Graham signed with London-based record label Fire Records and released his original score for Alfred Hitchcock’s silent classic The Lodger. He recently collaborated with renowned choreographer Deborah Hay on Culberg Ballet's Horse, which premiered in September 2021 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Visionary composer Reynolds will visit Indiana in March 2022 for a free performance of Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance on March 31 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington. His visit will also include several additional campus and community activities, including this March 30 screening program at IU Cinema. Tickets to the March 31 performance can be secured through the BCT box office.

Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance is a bilingual cross-border opera about the life and death of the Mexican Revolution icon Pancho Villa. Commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, the project is the third installment of The Marfa Triptych, a genre-hopping trilogy of musical and visual performances by Reynolds, and featuring Adrian Quesada, Paul Sanchez, and Liz Cass.

This series of events is collaboratively organized by the Latino Studies Program, the Latin American Music Center at the Jacobs School of Music, IU Cinema, the Music Theory Department, and the Department of Theater, Drama and Contemporary Dance. Additional support provided by the Platform in Global Popular Music: A Research Laboratory in the Arts & Humanities; the College Arts & Humanities Institute; the IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Program; and the IU Institute for Advanced Studies.

Graham Reynolds image credit: Mark Poucher

Series: Additional Films and Guests

Rating:: R
Year Released:: 2006
Format:: 2K DCP
Genres:: Drama, Animation
Metadata:: Directed by Richard Linklater

Set in a not-too-distant future where America has lost its “war” on drugs, Fred, an undercover cop, is one of many people hooked on the popular drug Substance D, which causes its users to develop split personalities. Fred is obsessed with taking down Bob, a notorious drug dealer, but due to his Substance D addiction, he does not know that he is also Bob. Based on a classic novel by Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly stars Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., and Woody Harrelson. Directed by Richard Linklater, the movie was filmed in live-action and then animated using the same critically acclaimed process seen in Linklater’s previous film, Waking Life.

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Additional screenings of this film

Rating:: Not rated
Year Released:: 2018
Format:: Digital
Genres:: Short
Metadata:: Directed by Graham Reynolds, Kristen Harris

For more than two decades, neuroscientist Kristen Harris and her laboratory team have been mapping the brain. Studying, photographing, and analyzing the cell biology in the hippocampus—the part of our brain which drives memory and its connection to emotion—their work informs our understanding of learning and recollection. They were among the first to develop computer-assisted approaches to analyze synapses in three dimensions, providing a new perspective on the nerve cells which make up our brain’s functions. Series of images are collected from the lens of an electron microscope and, when stacked into animation, provide clues into the ways our memories adapt and change over time, with synaptic plasticity being key to the lab's research. Paired with Graham Reynolds’ composition “The Brain,” a new work inspired by Dr. Harris and her lab, the resulting imagery serves to visualize the structure of the brain and the meticulous detail that goes into its study. This multimedia experience is part of Golden Hornet’s “The Sound of Science,” featuring Jeffrey Zeigler, co-commissioned by Kathleen and Harvey Guion, and conceived of by Graham Reynolds. Contains strobe-like effects.

Music recorded on May 14 and 16, 2018, at National Sawdust; composed by Graham Reynolds; performed by Jeffrey Zeigler; and recorded and mastered by Marc Urselli. Visuals by Dr. Kristen M. Harris, John Mendenhall, Masaaki Kuwajima, Dakota Hanka, Josef Spacek, Tom Bartol, Randy Chitwood, Art Wetzel, Dusten Hubbard, Justin Kinney, Terry Sejnowski, Clayton Smith, Lyndsey Kirk, and Patrick Parker. Video editing by Annika K Horne. Video produced by Kate Murray and Graham Reynolds.