Co-director Courtney Stephens joins us in person for a post-film discussion.
This screening is free to Amherst Cinema Members.
In this kaleidoscopic essay film narrated by Chloë Sevigny, filmmakers Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens explore the life and ideas of intrepid mid-century utopian neuroscientist, John C. Lilly, whose unorthodox experimentations into human and animal consciousness were controversial in methodology but far-reaching in intent.
Courtney Stephens is a writer/director of four features and several short films. Aside from JOHN LILLY, her features include: TERRA FEMME, composed of amateur travel footage shot by women in the early 20th century; THE AMERICAN SECTOR (with Pacho Velez), which follows slabs of the Berlin Wall installed around the US; and INVENTION, a hybrid feature about an esoteric healing device. Her films have been exhibited at MoMA, The National Gallery of Art, The Barbican, Walker Art Center, BAMPFA, and film festivals including the Berlinale, Viennale, New Directors/New Films, Locarno, Rotterdam, Visions Du Réel, Thessaloniki, IDFA, True/False, Hong Kong, and the New York Film Festival. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, and grants from California Humanities, the Sloan Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art.
She has co-curated the miniature cinema Veggie Cloud since 2014, and organized film programs for The Getty, Museum of the Moving Image, Flaherty NYC, and Human Resources. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Film Comment, Filmmaker, The New Inquiry, and Cabinet.
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