Laura Kraning screening LAS BREAS at BIFF

Laura Kraning screening LAS BREAS at BIFF.

Please join us for the WNY Film Festival Premiere of LAS BREAS, directed by Laura Kraning and Blue Kraning.

BIFF Shorts: Experimental

BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER 

SUNDAY, OCT 13 2019 - 2:30 PM

Info:   https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/biff-shorts-experimental/

 

LAS BREAS (12 min, 2K Digital, 2019, USA)

DIRECTED, FILMED, AND EDITED BY LAURA KRANING AND BLUE KRANING 

Las Breas is an observational portrait of three tar pits, of which there are only six in the entire world. Situated in three distinct landscapes in Southern California – urban Los Angeles, the oil fields of the San Joaquin Valley, and Carpinteria Beach, Las Breas investigates the spaces between archiving the pre-historic and the contemporary industrial landscape. While skeletons of extinct megafauna and vintage animatronic beasts are on display in the heart of Hollywood, the sticky remains of ancient microscopic organisms seep to the surface of both land and sea. Of the earth, yet primordial and impenetrable, the bubbling tar that rises from the depths speaks of past extinction and human exploitation of the earth’s limited resources.