ONE NIGHT ONLY!

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16 – 7:30 PM

To mark the 20th anniversary of Deborah Stratman’s IN ORDER NOT TO BE HERE, Spectacle presents a special screening with the generous support of Video Data Bank. Alongside the filmmaker’s unsettling nocturnal tour through suburban non-places will be four more shorts from Stratman’s inimitable body of work that showcase her deft investigations of optical technology and land use, stretching from the Canadian Yukon to the cosmos.

Stick around after the show for a remote Q&A with Deborah Stratman and Joaquín de la Puente, the show stopping “running man” of IN ORDER NOT TO BE HERE.

Deborah Stratman is an artist and filmmaker based in Chicago, Illinois whose work has been featured at venues and festivals around the world, including MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Austrian Film Museum, Sundance, CHP:DOX and TIFF ‒ just to name a few. Alongside a large and diverse filmography of short films, Stratman has brought her distinctive modes of experimental documentary filmmaking into several acclaimed features, such as O’ER THE LAND (2009) and THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (2016).

This showcase would not be possible without the support of Video Data Bank. Special thanks to Bradley Eros and Benji Santos.

For full list of films, visit https://www.spectacletheater.com/optical-oracles-five-shorts-by-deborah-stratman