Join Whammy! as we welcome filmmaker and artist Dicky Bahto to the microcinema with the premiere of his new single channel work entitled what's a life?:

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what’s a life? is a project that developed over the course of a few years incorporating material recorded on Super 8 film, cell phone video, and audio recordings. The recordings are a mix of portraits of musicians Carmina Escobar, Julia Holter, Sepand Shahab, Laura Steenberge, and Tashi Wada, as well as diary material focused on sound and music. A lot of the diary material is also looking specifically at how Katouche, a cat, experiences sound.

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While the project was “alive” and I was still accumulating new material, I would present it as a multimedia installation or as expanded cinema performances involving multiple television screens, video and Super 8 projection, cassette tapes, and mp3 audio playback, editing the material anew for each presentation and incorporating varying amounts of chance and site-specificity into each version.

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After a few years of letting the work live, breath, and grow, I decided to stop its life in this form, and have been editing it into a single channel video work, some sections of which may be shown independently. For this screening I will show the entirety of the single channel work in whatever form it happens to be by the time the doors open. It will be accompanied by a couple of Super 8 music videos for Nite Jewel and Grouper, projected from the camera originals. (D.B.)

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~90 min

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7:30 PM DOORS

8:00 PM SCREENING

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Dicky Bahto has exhibited work utilizing still and motion picture photography, sound, and performance at a variety of museums, galleries, microcinemas, alternative spaces, and scenic locations spanning the Northern Hemisphere, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to a series of nooks, crannies, and underbrush along and under Sunset Boulevard. He frequently collaborates with musicians, both as a performer and as a visual artist, including Sarah Davachi, Liz Harris, Julia Holter, and Tashi Wada, and with his cat, Katouche.

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