A lyrical-performative film, based on Alexander Calder’s fascination with the universe, using space imagery from NASA projected on onto his sculpture, The Stainless Stealer.
A tranquil contemplation of Mark di Suvero’s sculpture, Beethoven’s Quartet, on display at Tippet Rise Art Center.
A poetic and musical evocation of the inevitability of time, inspired by W.H. Auden’s poem “As I Walked Out One Evening.”
KING ROPES' cover of the song Girls Like Us, written by Mike Ferrio and originally recorded by his band, Tandy, released on the To a Friend, 2004. KING ROPES is an indie rock band roughly based in Bozeman, Montana.
A poetic film about an otherworldly place where large, man-made sculptures reach up to the stars in an effort to find meaning in life and where the music captures light from our own star, sending it across the landscape, and back out to the stars.
"Magical Floating Eye" is a song off King Ropes' 2021 album Way Out West. Music Video by Kathy Kasic
The Montana base band KING ROPES perches uneasily between Indie, Desert Rock, and ragged Americana.
Languid chords and flickering shadows intertwine with the twists in Patrick Dougherty’s sculpture, Daydreams. In the ebb and flow of an afternoon, image and sound meet, tangle, diverge, and eventually drift off.