The cinematic world of video makers Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby is defined by live-action footage interspersed with rudimentary animations, simple musical compositions juxtaposed with pop hits, and narrated passages laced with existential wonder. The pair, who’ve been creating singularly playful yet somberly reflective experimental videos over the past 25 years, present “Amazements: Videos by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby,” a program of their latest and past works, at the Block Museum of Art on Thursday, November 21.
With “Amazements” Duke and Battersby provide a largely engrossing and refreshing view of some of the fundamental questions of human existence, and even manage to have a bit of a laugh while doing it. v
Thu 11/21, 7 PM, Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Dr., Evanston, blockmuseum.northwestern.edu, free. Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby appear in person.
