Light Needs Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Jesse McLean
Join Phipps and Keylight to view an imaginative film about the inner life of houseplants!
Thurs., Nov. 13 | 7:30 p.m.
Botany Hall Auditorium
$12 for members and nonmembers
Houseplants bring a touch of nature into our homes and offer a variety of benefits such as air purification, vibrant color palettes, and peace. Yet, do our plants have the same feelings about living with humans? In collaboration with Keylight, Phipps is proud to present a screening of the experimental documentary Light Needs that examines the houseplants that cohabitate with humans and highlights the surprisingly intimate and complex relationships that can develop between them. After the screening, Light Needs director Jesse McLean will host a discussion to dive deeper into the film's creation, meaning and more.
About Jesse McLean
Jesse McLean has dedicated her creative research and art practice to exploring what it is to be human in relation to what is not. Her films reveal the deep intimacies and connections formed through these relationships and contrast the finite capacities of the nonhuman with infinite human desires. She has presented her work at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide, including the CPH:DOX in Copenhagen; New York Film Festival, NY, NY; International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands; Venice Film Festival, Italy; Kassel Dokfest, Germany and more. Currently, she is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres, within the Peck School of the Arts and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, one of the leading film programs devoted to supporting cinematic arts in the US.
About Keylight
Keylight was born out of discussions over the past decade, lamenting gaps that had cropped up within the Pittsburgh-area film community. Pittsburgh has a long tradition as a vibrant hub of independent filmmaking, but we could see that some of the bonds holding that community together had frayed. We believed we could be part of filling that void, helping to nurture and unify media artists of all types (traditional filmmaking, video art, performance) with audiences for work that is sometimes a little off the beaten path. For more information on Keylight's upcoming screenings and more, please visit their website.
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