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“The Great Flood” premieres at ELLNORA

 

Illinois scientific visualization teams helps show impact of "The Great Flood" for premiere at ELLNORA

September 10, 2011, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Members of the Illinois Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute (eDream) and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) collaborated with Obie-winning experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison on "The Great Flood," a 75-minute multimedia work of original music and film inspired by the 1927 Mississippi River floods, creating data-driven visualizations of the Mississippi River Valley showing the extent of the destructive floodwaters.

"The Great Flood" premieres on Sept. 10 at ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival at the University of Illinois' Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

"In 1927, the Mississippi River surged over its banks after heavy rains the previous summer set it pawing at its limits by the time the 15-inch downpours of April hit. Levees across the Midwest and the plains failed, as water pummeled communities along the shores. A mass exodus downstream carried the Delta blues northward, where it would become rock and roll."

Performance description from Krannert Center
Full NCSA Press Release
The Great Flood Trailer on IMDB
billmorrisonfilm.com, reviews and clips
The Great Flood, at billfrisell.com


September 7, 2011