Mimesis Without Organs: The Lanthanide Series by Erin Espelie

Mimesis Without Organs presents
The Lanthanide Series by Erin Espelie
with filmmaker in attendance
October 27 | 8pm | Solomon Screening Room | Atlas 102
From the portals of personal computing devices to ancient obsidian mirrors, optical instruments control how people see, foresee, frame, record, and remember their lives. The Lanthanide Series meditates on how we understand the world through such material means, with a reliance on history, the Periodic Table, and the people we love.
Erin Espelie is a writer, editor, and filmmaker whose work connects with current scientific research, questions of epistemology, environmental precarity, and fallout from an increasingly image saturated culture. Her films have shown at the Whitechapel and LUX galleries in London, the New York Film Festival, SFMoMA, the Jameel Arts in Dubai, CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, Full Frame Film Festival, CERN, Rotterdam International Film Festival, LA Film Forum, Anthology Film Archive, and more. She is Department Chair of Cinema Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she co-founded NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts in 2017.