Time Machine

Tour Kickoff!
Saturday, August 15th
8 PM / $5

Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat set the dials and push the levers while guiding you through the fourth dimension! Using reading, slide projection, digital video, and records as well as real-time rendered audiovisual performance with analog video mixer and game controllers Time Machine narrates the interspatial monuments of our extemporary voyage.

Riding frequency waves of sight and sound, Sabine Gruffat steers you through the sensory drone of the digital and analog hyperspace while Bill Brown will take you on a guided tour of memory's roadside attractions by way of scratchy records and the hazy glow of 35mm slides. Time Machine will be carried on the breezes of parallel universes to return you to your rightful futures and pasts.

Matt McCormick is opening for Bill and Sabine with his musical project
"Very Stereo."

Bill Brown is a filmmaker from the “Paris of the Plains,” Lubbock, Texas. He has made several short experimental documentaries about the dusty corners of the North American landscape. Along with filmmaker Tom Comerford, Brown created the Lo Fi Landscapes tour, traveling across country in 2002 and 2005 with a program of short films concerned with history and place. The Museum of Modern Art hosted a retrospective of Brown's work in 2003 as part of its MediaScope series.

Sabine Gruffat is a media artist living and working in Madison, WI. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Sabine’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, the Split Film Festival in Croatia and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the PDX Film Festival in Portland OR, The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, and The Gramercy Theater in New York. Her photographs and video installations have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General and Hudson Franklin in New York, Brissot-Linz Gallery in Paris, the Rochester Art Center, and the Centro Cultural Telemar in Brazil. When she is not teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she spends her time rediscovering monuments, bicycle touring, wearing costumes, and making electronic music. Last summer she went on a bicycle and film tour across France and Switzerland (La Cyclocinematheque) with filmmaker Bill Brown. In the Spring she toured the East coast with video maker Mary Billyou in performance as the Free Translators.

Matt McCormick is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, and musician. His films defy genre distinctions and fashion witty, abstract observations of contemporary culture and the urban landscape. Matt’s work has been exhibited in film festivals, art museums, and microcinemas around the globe, appeared on MTV and the Sundance Channel, and received positive reviews from Art Forum, The New York Times, and Film Comment magazine. Matt has worked and collaborated with many artists and musicians, including The Shins, Miranda July, Sleater-Kinney, The Postal Service, YACHT, Patton Oswalt, and Calvin Johnson. A collection of Matt’s music and sound recordings titled Very Stereo was released in 2007 by Marriage Records, and his photography and installation work is repped by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Matt is also the founder of the internationally recognized video distribution label Peripheral Produce, and is the founder and executive director of the Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival; Portland’s premiere event for experimental, documentary, and otherwise obscure contemporary cinema.