Simon Tarr's Rubicon will be shown in a free screening April 18.
Simon Tarr, assistant professor of cinema and photography at Ithaca College, will offer a free preview of his first feature film, on Sunday, April 18. The showing will take place at 4:00 p.m. in Park Hall Auditorium, with Tarr on hand to answer questions and discuss his work. The 85-minute film will receive its world premiere as an official selection for competition at the Athens International Film and Video Festival later this month.
"My goal in making Rubicon is to paint a sweeping technohistory of the human race," Tarr says. "I intertwine computer graphics with sacred geometry to retell the story of Noah with a modern, digital twist, probing illusions of authority and the nature of autonomy in the contemporary digital sphere." This "Thank You Ithaca" preview screening is a chance for Tarr to thank the college and larger community that has become his home.
Though Rubicon is Tarr's first feature-length effort, he has literally spent a lifetime making shorter films. His first effort came when he was eight. "The strip of film was fashioned from sandwich bags taped together, with spaceships drawn on," he says. "The projector was a shoebox with a lamp in it. The lens was a magnifying glass on the end of a toilet paper tube. The film premiered on the wall of my bedroom, where the film melted after a few seconds."
Since then, Tarr's films have been screened on every continent, including Antarctica, in hundreds of film festivals.
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