Gutterball
Eric Theise, MiniDV, 7’13’’, 2003
“Gutterball was made at the request of San Francisco Bay Area artists Dylan Bolles, Nathan Lynch, and Michael Barth Meyers. It was shot one afternoon soon after their 28 April 2002 performances at the Headlands Center for the Arts’ Open House, using available light and an unfamiliar camera. The piece was nearly lost, the original footage and a looped final edit existing only on degraded-by-time MiniDV tapes.”

Eric Theise
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Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Since 2022 he’s taken inspiration from the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space movement, and 60's light shows, and from letterform experiments carried out by visual poets, in order to create videos, collaborative performances, and works on paper that open new possibilities in digital cartography. Theise's earlier experimental films have screened across the United States and Canada, and in France. In 2016-17, he organized the eighteen-city, North American tour of A Roll for Peter, the multimaker, 16mm tribute to the late Peter Hutton orchestrated by Jennifer Reeves and Mark Street. Though his current practice focuses on the born-digital he continues to work in 16mm.
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