Person

Roger Beebe

Directing

Biography

Roger Beebe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University. He has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including Sundance and the Museum of Modern Art. Recent solo shows of his work include the Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City), the Wexner Center for the Arts, and Anthology Film Archives. He has won numerous honors and awards including a 2013 MacDowell Colony residency, a 2009 Visiting Foreign Artists Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a 2006 Individual Artist Grant from the State of Florida. Beebe is also a film programmer: he ran Flicker, a festival of small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and was the founder and Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film Festival from 2004-2014.

Known for

Filmography

2024un arbreDirector
2021Home Means Never Having to Say You're SorryDirector
2019Lineage (for Norman McLaren)Director
2019AmazoniaDirector
2019de rerum naturaDirector
2018The Comic Sans VideoDirector
2016A Metaphor for the End of Just About EverythingDirector
2015PaperbackProducer
2015SOUNDFILMDirector
2014Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes), Part II: The Crying GameDirector
2014[sic] seriesDirector
2012Acid RainDirector
2010BeginningsDirector
2010AAAAA Motion PictureDirector
2009Money Changes EverythingDirector
2008Last Light of a Dying StarDirector
2006S A V EDirector
2003Famous Irish AmericansDirector
2001Strip Mall Trilogy
—SOUNDFILM OvertureDirector
—TB TX DanceDirector
—Tiger TigerDirector
—SOUNDFILM CodaDirector
—(rock/hard place)Director

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