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A World in the Evening offers visual and literal poetry—poetry that cannot be reconciled with the brutality of history, with the death of a poet and the sleep of reason. Inescapable nightmares of the past are reflected in the present. Cities at night, the rebuilding of a fire-devastated fourteenth-century cathedral, a lonely eighteenth-century New Mexico mission, and the poetry and theatre of Federico García Lorca are among the inhabitants of A World in the Evening.

Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino have been collaborating since 1990. Their video work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York; the Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley; and ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. Their work has been exhibited at MoMA, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; La Biennale di Venezia; Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro Nacional de Las Artes, Mexico City; the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Berlin Video Festival, Berlin; Edinburgh Film Festival, Edinburgh; International Contemporary Art Festival SESC Videobrasil, Sao Paulo; Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany; the Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto; and presented at the 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. Dan Boord’s work has been presented at the International Public Television Conference in Stockholm. Luis Valdovino’s work has been broadcast on Independent Focus on WNET, New York. Dan Boord is Emeritus Professor of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Luis Valdovino is Professor of Art at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.