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Wandering In
2023
Deanna Sirlin
Artist
Matthew Ostrowski
Artist + Programmer
Philip Auslander
Music + Voice
Edwin Way Teale
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This video is a tribute to Edwin Way Teale's Wandering Through Winter a Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-mile Journey through the North American Winter. This book was published in 1965 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966.
Deanna Sirlin, Wandering In, 2023, single channel video on Off the Wall @725 Ponce screen size 59’6” x 62’
EVERYTHING IS PERFECT AND NOTHING IS PERFECT
Contemporary Film + Video about Nature
Curated by Gregory Zinman
Off the Wall @ 725 Ponce
September 13 + 14, 8 pm
on the Atlanta Beltline
Atlanta, Georgia 30306
This program takes its name from novelist, activist, and Georgia native Alice Walker’s quote, “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
This program takes these words to heart, contorting and bending to explore stunning visions of nature by contemporary women artists. Addressing the human impact on our world and exploring environmental beauty in equal measure, these films take viewers from psychedelic South American landscapes to cosmos-spanning ecocriticism, and from the earliest photographic techniques to meditations on today’s AI and digital technologies. Themes of care, dissent, critique, awe, and self-preservation all dovetail in this kaleidoscopic collection of cinematic perspectives questioning what it means to see and hear the “natural” world today.
About Off the Wall:
The largest movie screen in the Southeast, illuminating Atlanta's Beltline with film and video art from around the world.
Deanna Sirlin, Wandering In, 2023, single channel video on Off the Wall @725 Ponce, Atlanta, Georgia