Fragments Screening + Q&A with Artist Brittany Markert at The Broad

636 North Broad Street,New Orleans LA 70119

27 September, 2021

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Join Artist Brittany Markert for a screening & Q&A of Fragments. 16mm, B&W, 20:05min with original soundtrack by Leila Bordreuil . 16mm, B&W, 20:05min with original soundtrack by Leila Bordreuil  Digital Transfer Join Artist Brittany Markert for a screening of their16mm experimental film Fragments followed by a meet and greet & Q&A. Screening at 9pm sharp, arrive earlier for concessions. With Echoes of David Lynch’s Alphabet, Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon and Cocteau’s Blood of a Poet, In Rooms Productions presents its first experimental film, Fragments, inspired by their ongoing photographic project In Rooms.  Featuring stop animation, early cinema techniques and an original soundtrack, join us for this surreal dreamlike journey into the psyche. All 16mm hand developed and edited by hand on a Steenbeck Table.  Watch Trailer View Stills New Orleans based artist Brittany Markert (b.1987) rejected a job offer in finance and traditional path of a phi beta kappa graduate of mathematics and moved to New York with two suitcases to pursue a life committed to the creation of art. In an escape from the facades of society, the gender roles witnessed in Southern California suburbia, Brittany turned the camera on herself and created In Rooms, bringing to life the inner world she could not locate or relate to in the world around her. In Rooms aesthetics echos early cinema, the surrealist art movement, and photographic works of Francesca Woodman, Claude Cahun, Duane Michals, to name a few. In fields dominated by male voices and the male gaze, Brittany set out to expand on the dialogue of desire, sexuality & gender from the perspective of being raised as a woman through her intimate and intentional lens. Pain, mental health, trauma, suicidal ideation are not easily understood or comfortable to speak about. Most people approach these matters privately, through solitude, therapy, close friendships or through art and cinema, which can dramatize the experience. Seldom do we meet someone affected by mental illness and these matters who so honestly portrays it. In Rooms confronts her battle with severe depression and observations of societal shadows in a unique, undeniably familiar lens of the collective unconscious.Through this vulnerable and powerful body of work, Brittany Markert holds a mirror to each of her viewers minds, the process of individuation, catharsis and enlightenment becomes not her own, but each of ours.