Saturday, January 24, 2026, 8:00 pm, classic-editor, $10
Gregg Biermann in person
Sometimes described as a “math-rock filmmaker”, Gregg Biermann is a video artist whose work radically deconstructs Hollywood images and other mainstream media. Using digital technology, Biermann dissects the mechanics of film itself, often revealing new, uncanny interpretations of familiar visual structures. Biermann’s practice draws from traditions of formalist experimental film, but retools them for the digital era, creating work that is both analytically rigorous and viscerally disorienting.
“The artist and filmmaker Gregg Biermann makes sculptural and intellectually playful work that transforms images from Hollywood and other mainstream media. A few years ago, Biermann had a near-death calamity when his heart suddenly stopped. Recovering from an experience that only one in ten people survive, Biermann realized that “death challenges who we think we are and how we tend to think about ourselves.” His engaging and remarkably inventive film Personal Effects (2024, one hour) uses animation, and a wide range of cinematic techniques to illustrate his interior monologue, creating an intimate essay on death, time, the mind and other perplexing philosophical topics. Biermann will present the film, along with his short Quartet for the End (2023, 14 mins.), which creates a kaleidoscopic reworking of a climactic scene from James Cameron’s Titanic.” –David Schwartz, Curator, Barrymore Film Center.