The Story of Christopher Jenkins, is an audio/visual performance which heightens the moviegoing experience by constructing a film, live in front of an audience. Follow our artist in residence, Keaton Smith as he combines the immediacy of mixing video with recorded footage to create an original story about the life of a schizophrenic. The work examines the protagonist's fragmented thought, memory and delusions. In an attempt to cure Christopher Jenkins of his illness, psychiatrists use a machine to extract images from his mind. The elliptical and sprawling scenery of schizophrenia is processed and guided toward clarity in real time.
A Louisiana native of 25 years, Keaton Smith received a BFA in 2012 from the University of LouisianaLafayette. Keaton is a filmmaker, writer and video artist who performs live video presentations of his work. Keaton use digital and analog video, live action photography and painting on film to provoke a meditative state within the viewer. His work has been shown in film festivals in Louisiana, Ohio and New York. The most recent screening was of his experimental short film, Years in Bardo, at the Philip K KickFilm Festival in Brooklyn, New York
STORY OF CHRISTOPHER JENKINS
By: Keaton Smith – Performance Media
January 9, 10 & 11th @ 7:30pm
James Devin Moncus Theater
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