Sarah Elder film to be screened

Published November 23, 2016 This content is archived.

“Remains to be Seen: Performing the Archive,” a film by UB faculty member Sarah Elder, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.

The screening is free and open to the public.

The film documents, with interviews and historical photographs, a 2012 public performance at the UB Art Galleries in which artist Charles Clough and UB archaeologist Peter Biehl unrolled early remnants of a massive, layered scroll featuring the drawings and tracings of a young group of visual artists in Buffalo. The artists included Clough, Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman, all of whom founded Hallwalls in 1974. The scroll had been created at Hallwalls and stored for 40 years in a storage shed.

A presentation will take place following the screening featuring Elder, professor of media study and adjunct professor of anthropology and transnational studies; Biehl, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology; Clough; and media study PhD student and art historian Laura McGough.

The event is sponsored by Hallwalls, the UB Department of Media Study and the UB Art Galleries.