NYAB Event - Micah Bowers "Who's There?"

Micah Bowers "Who's There?"

AC Institute

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Micah Bowers enjoys stories but rarely believes them. They're too tidy, too convenient. His work has a narrow focus. Instances. Occurrences. Like joining a conversation well underway.

Who's There? noses in on the peculiarities of fear. Fear is the formative emotion for many Midwestern Americans. This is especially true in a pseudo Christian landscape where the role of grace is forgotten, the cost of forgiveness diminished, and the prevailing theology is focused on self-improvement. Naturally, we become our own gods, and our greatest good becomes a good life...if only we can be good enough. However, our continuing dissatisfaction with the good life and the extreme burden of its maintenance drives many of us to momentary escape. Who's There? is a video short about the infancy of the escape cycle in a young boy's life and his obsessive fear of its consequences.

Micah Bowers lives in Indianapolis, IN and recently graduated from the Electronic Time-Based Art program at Purdue University. As an artist, he is relatively new to sound and video but entirely hooked on the challenge of maneuvering the obstacles between idea and output, especially as it relates to attempts at subtlety. The intensity with which he pursues interests and inspirations rises and returns at rhythmic intervals, but lately he is fascinated by Chris Marker, America, and this wonderfully relevant quote from dead poet Jean Cocteau: "Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."