the short films of Rankin Renwick

Fri March 7th
doors: 7:00pm
films: 7:30pm

$5 – $15 suggested donation
FREE POPCORN

No Name Cinema
2013 Pinon Street
Santa Fe, NM 87505
nonamecinema.org

the short films of RANKIN RENWICK

Over more than forty years, Rankin Renwick has produced a collection of films, videos, and installations that hang together as comfortably as hobos around a rail side fire. It’s an oeuvre of misfits. The narrative voice bounces from first-person memoir to straight documentary to outright appropriation. It’s an oeuvre of opportunism. Renwick’s work often springs from deeply divergent impulses and understandings of beauty; sometimes elegant, often discomfiting, but always penetrating. While their films can be received as equally mystifying and assaultive on first encounter, deeper viewings reveal a resounding theme to be the artist’s own consistent affection for experience, for others, and for life.

filmmaker in attendance from Portland, Oregon ~ post-screening Q&A

Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, Renwick’s iconoclastic work embodies their interest in landscape and transformation, and the relationships that exist between bodies, landscapes, and borders. As an artist who often self-distributes their work, their screening history reads as a worldwide roadmap of independent cinema. Renwick’s work has been exhibited in hundreds of venues internationally, both institutional and underground, including The Museum of Modern Art, Light Industry, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Art Basel, Oberhausen, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Centre Pompidou, Bread and Puppet Theater and True/False Film Festival, among many others.