Event: A Quaking Song: One Big Eye Expanded [STUDIO, CFA 111]

Join us in the STUDIO on Sunday, April 7 from 6:30-8PM for

“A Quaking Song: One Big Eye Expanded.”

Produced by Sobia Ahmad, Jessica Fuquay, and Benny Shaffer, this expanded cinema experience will feature a projection of the hand-processed 16mm film One Big Eye with an experimental live score and storytelling performance. One Big Eye explores Pando, an ancient quaking aspen grove that extends across 106 acres in south-central Utah. Seemingly 47,000 individual trees, it is unified by a single immense root system, making it the earth’s largest and heaviest known organism on land. Weaving scientific, folkloric, and mystical ways of relating to Pando, the project reflects on the underground network of roots to explore a shared ecology between humans and more-than-humans. Offering an immersive, sensorial engagement with Pando, this special event is organized in conjunction with the work currently on view in Second Degree Vision, the School of Art MFA exhibition at the Miller ICA.

This project was made possible with the generous support of the Frank-Ratchye Further Fund and The Sylvia and David Steiner Film Fund of Carnegie Mellon University.