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We’ll be showing some People Like Us films at Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema on 16 September 2023 at ATA on Valencia Street. Click on the link above for more info about Other Cinema. Please note, this is a screening, not a performance.
May 25 2022 – 6:30 PM, Gray Area, San Francisco | Get Tickets
6:30PM Doors open | 7:00PM Presentation by Vicki Bennett | 8:00PM Screening of Gone, Gone Beyond
Proof of vaccination is required for all attendees over the age of 12 years old. Read more.
Using collage as a compositional tool opens up endless opportunities to experience results that are more than the sum of the parts, opening doors (and windows) to let light in from outside of our own limited and sometimes repetitive ways of thinking. Since 2016 Vicki Bennett has been creating “Gone, Gone Beyond” for RML CineChamber, an immersive 360 surround cinema environment, is now an hour long.
In this presentation Vicki tells us about her creative process, expanding her aesthetics from 2D to 3D to create audiovisual content which breaks the rectangle, smashing the thin screen into tiny fragments, looking beyond the frame, climbing through to see what’s behind.
This special screening is part of a limited run showing of Gone, Gone Beyond, an immersive audio-visual spatial cinema work by People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett). This is Gone, Gone, Beyond‘s US premiere, following its European debut tour last fall with screenings at nyMusikk in Oslo, the Barbican in London, and more. See showtimes
We are very pleased to announce that Gone, Gone Beyond will be screening in it’s home town San Francisco in May 2022 at Gray Area. We say it’s the “home town” because although we live in London, the piece was originally commissioned by Recombinant Media Labs for CineChamber, the structure which we then built a replica of in 2021 and have existing in the UK.
TICKETS: https://grayarea.org/gonegonebeyond/
All press inquiries should go to Gray Area, and if you have questions for People Like Us or Gone, Gone Beyond you can directly ask us.
Gone, Gone Beyond will screen at 6.30pm and 8.30pm each night.
On the 25th there will be an artist talk followed by one screening – tickets can be bought combined or separately: https://grayarea.org/event/vicki-bennett/
SCREENING DATES:
12, 13, 14, 19, 20 & 21 May 2022 (two screenings per night)
—- these screenings will be introduced by Naut Humon, original commissioner of Gone, Gone Beyond and creator of the CineChamber that houses our work.
25, 26 & 27 May 2022 (two screenings per night)
—- we will be present for these screenings and therefore will introduce the the 26th/27th, and it will be an artist presentation on the 25th.
All screenings are at Gray Area, Grand Theater, 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 | info@grayarea.org | 415.843.1423
Covid policy: Full vaccination (no booster) | Masks strongly encouraged but not required
The Mirror will be shown (theatrical format, i.e. not a performance) at Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema in San Francisco on 6 April 2019.
The Mirror will screen in its theatrical form at Recombinant Festival, San Francisco on 30 November 2018 – you can buy tickets here. Please note this is NOT a live performance, but we will be present to introduce the movie screening.
CCCitations, part of our Citation City project, will screen at Craig Baldwin‘s amazing Other Cinema at ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco on Saturday 3rd October 2015.
More details on their site: http://othercinema.com
CCCitations: https://peoplelikeus.org/2015/cccitations/
Spotted by our friend Jonathan Lemon – a track by People Like Us, Wobbly and Matmos on their jukebox! No idea quite why the song is explicit… the “lyrics” come from a local London commercial radio station advert from the 1990s. Download Wide Open Spaces for free at UbuWeb.
