Film Screening and Artist Talk with Keith Langergraber

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Offsite: Keith Langergraber, the Vancouver Art Gallery invites you to a screening of the short film The Wilderness of Mirrors, followed by an artist talk with Keith Langergraber, moderated by Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art.

In The Wilderness of Mirrors, an eccentric and isolated firewatcher on the edge of the Canada-US border begins to lose his grasp on reality. Obsessed with a glacial lake he is convinced is moving from day to day, the firewatcher is slowly capitulated into an indecipherable reality, oscillating between hope, fear and despair, played out through a labyrinthine structure of memories, dreams and echoes as he crosses his own mental threshold, destabilizing familiar conceptions of the “border.”

This talk will take place in the Blue Moon Theatre at the Shangri-La Hotel Vancouver, 1128 West Georgia Street.

Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street, between Thurlow and Bute Streets, just west of the Shangri–La Hotel. Directions »

The Wilderness of Mirrors
2020, 14 mins.
Digital video

Written, directed and produced by Keith Langergraber

Chris Keith Langergraber
Lance Christie Watson

Original music
Heather McDermid

Animation, Videography, Editing
Keith Langergraber, Heather McDermid

Script Editors
Shyla Seller, Christie Watson

Colourist
Sean Arden

Sound and Dialogue Editor
Heather McDermid

Production Assistant
Graham Allport

The artist would like to thank The Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council for their generous support.