Film Night: Grandpa's Still in the TUFF SHED

[Gallery of Contemporary Art, UCCS]

GRANDPA'S STILL IN THE TUFF SHED™ A FILM BY ROBIN BEECK Friday, March 2, 7:00 p.m. Gallery of Contemporary Art University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Science Building / map

The evening will start with a brief lecture about Bredo Mostrøl and the Frozen Dead Guy phenomenon, by Dr. Suzanne Macaulay, PH.D., chair of the department of Visual and Performing Arts, UCCS. This will be followed by the documentary Grandpa’s Still in the TUFF SHED™. Robin Beeck, who with the help of Michael Moore, has spent the last five years filming a feature-length 60-minute documentary on Bredo Morstøl, a Norwegian who was frozen solid by his grandson, Trygve, in a bizarre cryonics experiment in 1983. Since then, the world-famous corspe-cicle has been lying under 800 pounds of dry ice in a TUFF SHED™ behind his grandsons’ castle-like house in the 9000-ft Colorado ski town of Nederland. Trygve Bauge, the grandson, has long since been deported back to Norway, but Grandpa Bredo has remained, unwittingly becoming a worldwide symbol of the legal rights of the temporarily dead. The film follows the puzzled townsfolk as they progress from fear and anger at the body’s discovery, to a gradual grudging acceptance, and finally, a world-renowned celebration in Grandpa’s honor: Frozen Dead Guy Days. Film Runtime: 60 min Year: 2003 Language: English Rating: Unrated (language, frozen dead guys) COST $4.00 $2.00 GoCA Members, UCCS students/faculty/staff LINKS Beaver Trilogy Official Site Nederland, CO Chamber of Commerce: Frozen Dead Guy Days Purchase Grandpa’s Still in the TUFF SHED™ on DVD IMDB / Grandpa’s Still in the TUFF SHED™ This film screening is open to the public. REMINDER Gallery Talk: “The Way We Live Now” Friday, February 23, 6:00 p.m. Mark Addison will walk us through the exhibition “The Way We Live Now”: and Other Artist Books from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection, CU Art Museum and talk about his collection.

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