[English-undergrad] Artist Visit: Elena Dorfman, "The Dream and the Lie, " Friday 11 AM INTS 1109

[James Tobias]

Dear English Majors!

I hope you are doing well.

I’m writing with invitation for you to attend a special visit by photographer and video artist Elena Dorfman, who will be visiting ENGL 33 this Friday February 21 at 11 AM in INTS 1109.

Elena Dorfman is a celebrated photographer, author, and video artist whose photography has been published in a wide variety of venues, from fashion magazines to exhibition catalogs. 

Her latest work, The Dream and the Lie, remixes upwards of 300 films from the state film archive of Albania, reviewing and re-contextualizing clips of the almost unknown cinema made under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania between 1944 and 1985. On one hand, Dorfman’s The Dream and the Lie is an extraordinary feat of digital authoring that puts cinematic images of beauty and terror under a kind of forensic microscope in which we can study them for clues as to their sources and for ideas about their effects. On the other hand, The Dream and the Lie asks its audience, as active receivers, to both immerse themselves within and take a step back from the stream of cinematic images we are constantly invited to consume in everyday life, and in doing so, to consider what it is that we desire from streaming media images, and what it is that we actually get from them. The resulting double movement, reviewing history while prompting questions about our future, achieves an at once, and paradoxically, serene yet urgent balance in contemporary digital art.

Elena Dorfman's visit and screening of The Dream and the Lie is sponsored by the English Department's anti-bias and anti-bigotry programming for 2024-2025; and it is held in conjunction with ENGL 33, “Multimodal Literacies.” Elena will be providing a brief introduction to the work, starting at 11 AM. Then, we will screen the hour-long work in full. Then, we will break for discussion and lunch.

If you would like to attend, there are a few slots left. Please RSVP to me at this email address, and I will put you on the list.

Hope to see you there,

jt

—
James Tobias, Ph.D.
Professor 
Chair, Department of English

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