Thursday February 6 * 7pm * $10 * TICKETS

Rhizome's monthly microcinema continues!

FLEEGIX, 2019
55 minutes, 16mm color
Film projection and live performance by Matthew Thurber

FLEEGIX is a science-fiction film set on Earth, although some of the population have become convinced that they are in fact living on the planet Mars.

The film investigates the nature of belief systems which overlap, co-exist, and create conflict in any human society.

FLEEGIX is a feature length color silent film, presented on 16mm film with live narration, foley and score, in the Japanese tradition of Benshi "film explainers". FLEEGIX is so far only viewable in a live context. Its life as a film is in resistance to the ubiquity of digitization and seeks to reconnect with the origins of film as a live performance.

The film is inspired by and loosely adapted from on a Young Adult novel by Daniel Pinkwater, Alan Mendolsohn, the Boy From Mars, in which alienated high school students Leonard and Alan escape boredom through developing telepathic powers and learn to travel to other dimensions overlapping their own. I have received permission from the author to make a film that is a creative interpretation of his book.

Its subject is the nature of reality. It takes place in a recognizable world of parks, parking lots, gas stations and video stores, which makes the episodes stranger and more tangible. It does not create a fantasy world: the extraordinary is mapped onto a recognizable landscape.

"Animation is always Propaganda"- Eileen Myles

****Following the screening please stick around for a special duo performance featuring Luke Stewart and Majid Araim.*****