NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST FILM TOUR
Three different film programs of Vanessa's work hit the road on the NSEW Film Tour.
1. A selection of 13 shorts. These short, personal constructions demonstrate a wide range of formal approaches and subjects that include wildness, hitchhiking, death, nuclear power, gentrification and migration.
Renwick's films share a restless spirit, an interest in outlaw art-making, and an unflagging sense of wanderlust.
2. Medusa Smack with Hope and Prey. A program which starts with a poetic, relaxing video about jellyfish - Moon Jellies and Sea Nettles, with a score by Tara Jane O'Neil. Then we head into a heart-pounding three channel exploration of wolves, coyotes, bison, elk, eagles, ravens and moose in the Yellowstone winter scape, with a score by Daniel Menche.
3. A program focusing on wolves and wildlife management.
Charismatic Megafauna with documentation of Hunting Requires Optimism
Upcoming:
2018
MARCH 6 ArtsLab, University New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
MARCH 12 The Center for Documentary Arts and Research, UCSC, California
MARCH 13 CALARTS Tuesday Nights, Santa Clarita, CA
MARCH 14 Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
MARCH 15 AZ West, Joshua Tree, CA with Tara Jane ONeil
MARCH 16 Exploded View, Tucson, AZ
MARCH TBD Santa Fe, NM
MARCH 21 First Person Cinema, UC Boulder, CO
MARCH 22 Collective Misnomer, Alamo Draft House, Denver, CO
MARCH 23 The Cirque, Paonia, CO
MARCH TBA The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
This leg of the tour is partly sponsored by a 2017 Career Opportunity Grant from The Oregon Arts Commission.
Venues hit so far:
2015
Oct 3 Iowa Film Scene/University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Oct 6 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Oct 6 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Oct 7 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Oct 9 Temple Live Theatre, Temple, ME
Oct 12 Space Gallery, Portland, ME
Oct 13 Light Industry, Brooklyn,NY
Oct 14 MassArt Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Oct 15 Keene State College, Keene,NH
Oct 17 The Dirt Palace, Providence, RI
Oct 18 Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Oct 19 The Center for PostNatural History, Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 20 Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 21 The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Oct 22 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
Oct 23 The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Oct 24 Hallways, Champaign, IL
Oct 26 University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Oct 27 The Nightingale, Chicago, IL
Oct 28 University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Oct 29 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Oct 30 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Nov 2 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Nov 3 Union Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
Nov 4 Artists Now, Milwaukee, WI
Nov 8 Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
Nov 19 University of California, Davis, CA
Nov 20 University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Nov 21 Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Dec 12 The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
This leg of the tour was partly sponsored by a 2015 Career Opportunity Grant from The Oregon Arts Commission.