BURDEN - Full Frame Third Fridays

BURDEN comes to Durham for a one-night-only screening at the Full Frame Theater at the American Tobacco Campus in downtown Durham!

Third Friday screenings are free and open to the public, but attendees must reserve a ticket via Eventbrite starting at 9am on the morning of the screening to attend. There will be a last minute line at the venue to accommodate any last minute cancellations/no-shows.

BURDEN (90 minutes)
Directed by Richard Dewey, Tim Marrinan

Chris Burden guaranteed his place in art history in 1971 with a period of often dangerous and at times stomach-churning performances. After having himself shot, locked up in a locker for five days, electrocuted, and crucified on the back of a VW bug, Burden reinvented himself as the creator of truly mesmerizing installations and sculptures, from a suspended gigantic flywheel that seemingly spins on its own, to an assemblage of antique streetlights rewired for solar energy and illuminated outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In BURDEN, Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey look at the artist's work and private life with an innovative mix of still-potent videos of his '70s performances; personal videos and audio recordings; comments by friends, fellow students, colleagues, and critics; and latter-day footage at his Topanga Canyon studio, all peppered with his thoughts and musings through the years.