Expanding the Frame: Constructing Landscape

Explore 21st-century ideas about human relationships to landscape—whether rural or urban, cultural or imaginary—in this five-week series of experimental films.

The impression of a landscape may be shared by a group of people but often it is a deeply personal attachment. One may identify with the constructed scenery of an urban street, with its restaurants and shops. Perhaps we resonate with a landscape marked by a vanishing culture or a landscape of supreme beauty.

With a different theme each Thursday throughout April, Expanding the Frame: Constructing Landscape weaves a story of complex and poignant human relationships to landscape through historical avant-garde pieces from the Walker’s Ruben/Benston Film Collection as well as work from present-day makers using nontraditional methods of filmmaking.

Don’t miss Christian Marclay’s sound piece The Museum with the Sound of Its Own Making in the parking garage at the Walker. Part of the Constructing Landscape series, the work will play continuously April 20–May 2.