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	Episode:		Experimental , monochrome short films screening tonight (12/18) at the Firehouse in Joshua Tree
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:00:00
	Publish Date:		2025-12-18 16:06:48
	Description:		A series of experimental black and white films will be screening tonight at the Firehouse in Joshua Tree. On Thursday, December 18, the Firehouse in Joshua Tree will host Ecstasies in Monochrome, a program of short films by Marne Lucas and Tyler Hubby. The event will feature a series of eight black and white films, four by each filmmaker, that are experimental and complementary to one another in nature. Lucas is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and end-of-life doula based in Portland, Oregon. She explains that much of her work utilizes infrared thermal video as a means of capture. A self-portrait of contemporary artist Marne Lucas in New York City. “I use anything from thermal riflescopes, cameras, and binoculars. It’s a heat-sensitive technology that’s very eerie and shows the subtle actual heat energy of bodies and landscapes in real-time. This technology, for me, highlights the idea that Carl Sagan talks about, that we’re made out of star stuff. I love this idea that we’re made of light energy and that we are actually light bodies. This type of cinema kind of explores that.” An infrared thermal video still from the erotic cult film, THE OPERATION, starring Gina Velour and Otto Wrek. Hubby is a filmmaker and photographer based in Los Angeles. He has been making experimental films for several decades, and his 2016 feature film, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present, explores the life of the late multidisciplinary creative. Hubby has titled his collection four films the “City Quartet,” and describes that each has its own musical component. Tyler Hubby “Each one of them is a reflection on the built environment, and each one is done with a different musician or musical entity. I reached out to different contemporary musicians in different capacities to provide scores. So each one of these pieces has a different type of musical energy.” Lucas and Hubby met while both were showing experimental films at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in 1995. They have stayed in touch and collaborated since, including on the short film Phonic Fatigue Syndrome. Ecstasies in Monochrome marks the first occasion their works have been paired together. Hubby’s films are the first half of the program, and Lucas’s are the second, with her celebrated film The Operation as the program’s headline work. “I made that film with Jacob Pander in 1995, and it’s the first of its kind. It’s an explicit, sci-fi, patient-surgeon narrative. It’s not safe for work, but it is absolutely captivating and has won awards around the world. I don’t show it very often, and we’re presenting it for the 30th anniversary of this film.” As all films shown during the event are in black and white, an imagery choice that Hubby describes as a meditative medium in its own right. An infrared thermal video still as digital photograph, depicting a woman’s head and hands with heat signatures visible. Image sourced from ‘Cthonic Fatigue Syndrome’ an experimental IRT film by Marne Lucas with Tyler Hubby (2023). “I think that there is a great deal of visual pleasure derived from black-and-white imagery. It’s not the way we see in real life. It presents a different way of seeing, a different relationship. It gets more formal, and I think it’s black-and-white has a way of transporting us a little bit just outside of reality.” Ecstasies in Monochrome will be held tonight at 8 p.m. at the Firehouse, located at 65430 Winters Road in Joshua Tree. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door. The post Experimental , monochrome short films screening tonight (12/18) at the Firehouse in Joshua Tree appeared first on Z107.7 FM Joshua Tree.
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