Mon, Jul 30, 2007
July 30 - August 3, 2007
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH AUGUST 12
'Anatomy of Charley Friedman' Continues at Sheldon Art Gallery
New York-based artist Charley Friedman's first solo museum exhibition, "The Anatomy of Charley Friedman," continues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. The exhibition will be on view in Sheldon's first floor galleries through Aug. 12.
Friedman, a native of Lincoln, has pursued his distinctive aesthetic vision in drawing, sculpture, photography, performance, video and through installations. Friedman says art is the comic practice of hope, not a tragic enactment of despair, which is often the case in the contemporary art world. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
BEADLE CENTER E103, WED 3:30PM
Special Seminar - "ABI SOLiD high throughput genomic sequencing technology"
Brandon Blakey, Application Sales Consultant, Genetic Analysis, Applied Biosystems. Open to the Public
LAWN NORTH OF KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, THURS 9PM
Movies On The Green Features Oliver!
The stars will shine again on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus when the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and University Program Council unspool the annual Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection Movies on the Green series. The series continues this Thursday evening with Carol Reed's faithful adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver.
Screenings are free and open to the public and begin at dusk (approximately 9 p.m.). Popcorn and soda are sold at the screenings. Film commentary written by Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection donor Jerry Jensen will be distributed free of charge. more...
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Disappearances, Paprika Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Disappearances and Paprika. Both films will show through August 2.
Based on the award-winning novel by Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances stars legendary actor/songwriter Kris Kristofferson as schemer and dreamer Quebec Bill Bonhomme -- in a spellbinding tale of high-stakes whiskey-smuggling, a family's mysterious past, and a young boy's rite of passage (Charlie McDermott). Quebec Bill, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered cattle herd through a long winter, resorts to whiskey smuggling, a traditional family occupation. He takes his son, Wild Bill, on an unforgettable trip that will long remain etched in the viewer's mind: a journey through vast reaches of the Canadian wilderness and into a haunted and elusive past. What they find is the stuff of genuine legend.
With Paprika, director Satoshi Kon unleashes another eye-popping anime adventure. The visually striking thriller is set in the not-too-distant future, where doctors are developing a groundbreaking new psychotherapy treatment called PT. This coincides with the invention of a device called the "DC Mini," which enables researchers to enter the dreams of a subject and explore matters of the unconscious mind. But one day, a "DC Mini" prototype goes missing, and the doctors are thrown into a world of confusion. They realize how dangerous a turn of events this could be, and to ensure that things don't spiral out of control, they embark on a mad quest to track down the missing prototype. As the characters use their dreamworld alter egos to enter the dreams of troubled patients, the line between reality and unreality begins to blur, until no one knows for sure what is real and what isn't. An adaptation of a story by the acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui, Paprika tells a tough-to-decipher, but spellbinding, tale. Kon's thought-provoking film features an absurdly catchy J-pop score and an unforgettable visual landscape.
More information is available at the Ross website.
