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Last Things

(Deborah Stratman, 2023)

Deborah Stratman in person
Presented in collaboration with Cinéseries
Discussion follows

35MM Print | Ohio Premiere

Three people stand apart in a salt flat while holding mirrors in front of their faces that are reflecting brightly.
Nov 12, 2023 2:00 PM
Film/Video Theater

Free for all audiences with ticket

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Without people on Earth, what remains? What if humans were not at the center of any narrative of Earth, history, or the future?

These are questions that acclaimed filmmaker and Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Deborah Stratman addresses in her latest film Last Things, which was produced with support from our Film/Video Studio residency program and premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Last Things collapses past, present, and future into one infinite unit of time that invites us to consider that humans might not be as permanent, important, or solid as we think we are. The film draws from a deep well of work by thinkers, scientists, writers, and philosophers who all remove humans from questions around evolution and time (including J.-H. Rosny, Roger Caillois, Clarice Lispector, and Marcia Bjornerud). Deborah Stratman describes her adventurous documentary as a film that emerges “from before the beginning until after the end; evolution and extinction as told from a mineral point of view.” (50 mins., 35mm)

Stick around after the screening for a conversation with the filmmaker!

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Last Things, courtesy of the artist.

About Cinéseries

In the words of Cinéseries’ members: Cinéseries is a student-led group that organizes monthly screenings in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts. We aim to offer a space for students and the community to engage with film and expanded cinema from makers from a variety of backgrounds. We aspire to create an environment conducive to critical engagement by inviting filmmakers to showcase work that takes risks, challenges norms, and opens a conversation by devoting to a wide range of artist-centered and independent media.

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"Stratman’s haunting, iridescent work of science-nonfiction actively decenters the human perspective, narrating the history and the speculative future of the universe with rocks as its protagonists."
Devika Girish, Film Comment

About the Artist

Deborah Stratman

Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman makes work around issues of power, control, and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. She regards sound as the ultimate multitool and time to be supernatural. Her over 40 films and multiple artworks have addressed freedom, surveillance, public speech, sinkholes, levitation, orthoptera, raptors, comets, evolution, extinction, exodus, sisterhood, and faith and have been exhibited and awarded internationally. She is a Fulbright, Guggenheim, and United States Artist Fellow; has been recognized with the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts and the Sundance Art of Nonfiction Award; and has received grants from Creative Capital, Graham Foundation, Harpo Foundation, and Shifting Foundation.

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Program Support

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Ohio Department of Development
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Ohio Arts Council
CampusParc
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Mike and Paige Crane
Axium Packaging
Nancy Kramer
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
Larry and Donna James
Bruce and Joy Soll
Jones Day
Alex and Renée Shumate

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Past Film/Video

Deborah Stratman

…These Blazeing Starrs! (2011)
Wed, Nov 1, 2023 - Sun, Dec 31, 2023
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Past Film/Video

Last Things

Nov 12, 2023 2:00 PM EST
Film/Video Theater

Free for all audiences with ticket

ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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