• PERFORMANCEBrent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist Brent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist
  • PERFORMANCEBrent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist Brent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist
  • PERFORMANCEBrent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist Brent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist
  • PERFORMANCEBrent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist Brent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist
  • PERFORMANCEBrent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist Brent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist
  • PERFORMANCEBrent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist Brent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then / Image: courtesy the artist

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Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

Brent Green returns to EMPAC to unveil his first stop-motion feature film blending live actors with wooden characters. Based on the true tale of Kentucky hardware clerk Leonard Wood, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then tells an inspiring, poignant, and darkly humorous love story of a man who built a bizarre and sprawling home for his wife by hand in the hope that it would cure her of terminal cancer. Accompanied by a stellar band of musicians that include Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Catherine McRae, and others, Green uses intense narration ranging from quiet, vulnerable storytelling to cathartic fumes bordering on the evangelistic.

Curator: Kathleen Forde

Tickets are REQUIRED for this event

Reviews:

2010.05.04: The Village Voice — Brent Green's Live-Action Stop-Motion Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

2010.05.07: The New York Times — Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

2010.05.25: Daily Serving — Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

2010.06.18: Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film — Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

Performers: Brendan Canty (drums/piano), Howe Gelb (piano), Drew Henkels (pump organ/theremin), Catherine McRae (violin), Missy Liu (violin), John Swartz (cello), Donna K (foley/percussion), Brent Green (narration/guitar)

Brent Green:

Brent Green is a storyteller, singer, songwriter, and self-taught filmmaker who works in Cressona, Pennsylvania. A multi-talented artist, he composes original scores for his films and frequently stages synchronized performances with screenings of his work. His live performances pair his poetic, sometimes eerie, animated drawings with his own musical narrative, often recorded with members of Fugazi, Califone, and Wilco.

Green began his career filming short stop-motion animations, and in April 2010 finished his first stop-motion feature length film entitled Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then. His work has been featured at several film festivals in the US and in Europe. In 2005, Green was the recipient of a grant from Creative Capital.

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Friday, September 10th @ 8:00 PM | Theater