Video Data Bank Presents: Roundabout
Featuring Light Cone

Video Data Bank presents Roundabout, a screening series in which the Chicago video art distributor invites a fellow moving image archive and distributor to collaborate on a conversational program of short experimental works. This program's collaborator is Light Cone, a nonprofit organization whose aim is the promotion and preservation of experimental cinema in France and around the world since its founding in 1982. Light Cone's primary mission is the distribution of the works in its catalog, which counts nearly 7,000 titles, in their original format whenever possible, to cultural organizations such as nonprofits, cinemas, museums, universities, galleries, and festivals. This program's featured artists include Janice Tanaka, Paolo Gioli, Semiconductor, Sarah Pucill, Stephanie Barber, and Christian Hossner. Works will be presented on 16mm film and digital projection. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Mariya Nikiforova (Light Cone), Film Collection and Documentation Center Manager, and Emily Faith Martin (VDB), Distribution Manager.