Events

  • AVANT 2016 - So Is This

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    The 13th edition of AVANT is a tribute to Michael Snow’s film So Is This. A film that consists only of text and challenges the idea that film, or language, refers to a surrounding world. This, in So Is This is simply the event that unfolds when the film takes place.

    Besides Michael Snow (Canada) the filmmakers Els van Riel (Belgium), Esther Urlus (Netherlands) and Elke Groen (Austria) are invited. All three deals with film as an event and with the material specificity of film; van Riel with time, Urlus with the materiality of film colour, and Groen with the actual memory of the film material.

    Dates: 

    Friday, September 23, 2016 (All day) to Saturday, September 24, 2016 (All day)
  • Edge of Frame Programme Three: with special guest Vicky Smith

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    Edge of Frame presents a programme of films exploring connections between the body, nature and the material of film, featuring works on 16mm by special guest Vicky Smith + Q&A.

    The programme will also feature works by Ben Balcom, Vanda Carter, Ruth Lingford and others.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 20:00 to Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    DIY Space for London - London, United Kingdom
  • Syros Int'l Film Festival 2016

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    Founded in 2013, the Syros Int'l Film Festival (Syros, Greece) showcases a wide spectrum of cinema in traditional and re-purposed island sites. Located in the middle of the Aegean summer, removed from the usual demands and hierarchies of the film industry, SIFF embeds events, styles and programs—experimental and narrative, recent and retrospective, Greek and international, workshops and expanded cinema performance—into its unique setting.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 13:00 to Tuesday, August 2, 2016 - 21:55
  • James Edmonds: film screening & artist talk

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    James Edmonds is an artist filmmaker from the UK living in Berlin and London. His practice centers on a personal poetics in which the nature of recording, when approached from the materiality of analogue film, offers a tangible surface for what is intangible and fleeting - our personal experience, inner worlds, thoughts and reflections.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, June 19, 2016 - 20:00 to Monday, June 20, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Ausland Berlin - Berlin, Germany
  • Edge of Frame Programme Two: with special guest Chris King

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    Edge of Frame presents a programme of films channeling patterns of interference and compression, electronic disruption and televisual overdose, with a live audio-visual performance and Q&A from artist Chris King.

    The programme will feature work by Karissa Hahn, Sabrina Ratté, Jodie Mack, Peter Burr and others.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 20:00 to Friday, July 15, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    DIY Space for London - London, United Kingdom
  • Primary Stimulus: A Robert Russett Memorial Retrospective

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    To celebrate the life and work of the singular artist and animation historian Robert Russett (1935-2015), guest curator Mark Toscano has assembled this nearly complete retrospective of Russett’s 16mm films.  This program will span his early, radical Pop hybrids of Sharits and Conner, through his fascinating and rigorous abstract perceptual explorations, to the haunting and ominous impressionistic rephotography works in which Russett explored his adopted homeland of Acadian Louisiana.

    Curator in attendance!

    Dates: 

    Saturday, July 16, 2016 - 20:00 to Sunday, July 17, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Echo Park Film Center - Los Angeles, United States
  • Storm De Hirsch: "Third Eye Butterfly" and other films

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    “I don't want to put any labels on my films… I never impose on you; you need to find what you have to find.” – Storm De Hirsch

    Microscope Gallery is extremely pleased to present a rare screening of three films by seminal artist Storm de Hirsch, filmmaker, poet, painter, and a co-founder of The Film-maker's Cooperative in New York in 1961. Despite her extensive presence and influence in the avant-garde film scene of New York in the 1960s, De Hirsch's work and history has largely remained obscure, especially since her death in 2000. De Hirsch's pioneering films often involve direct scratching, coloring, etching, painting on film and animation applied to imagery shot in everyday life.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, June 19, 2016 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Microscope Gallery - New York, United States
  • Close-Up Cinema: Peter Tscherkassky & Eve Heller

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    Close-Up is thrilled to present the first full UK retrospectives of the work of boundary pushing Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky and Austria based, American poetic filmmaker Eve Heller.

    The films of Peter Tscherkassky have played a central role in the international reawakening of interest in avant-garde film. At the turn from a photographic to a digital culture of moving images, his work follows in the footsteps of Austrian masters Kurt Kren, Peter Kubelka, and Ernst Schmidt Jr. to create a thrilling filmic language that engages psychoanalysis and semiotics whilst exploring the physicality of the medium and its potential to overwhelm.

    Dates: 

    Friday, June 10, 2016 (All day) to Sunday, June 12, 2016 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido
  • Black Box @ 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival

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    Black Box is the regular experimental strand at Edinburgh International Film Festival, curated by Kim Knowles. It comprises four shorts programmes dealing with the body and technology, journeys and discoveries, ritual and transformation, and matters of the environment, and two feature films. In the context of the Festival’s 70th anniversary, Black Box revisits the 1970s with two retrospective screenings and a special event celebrating one of the most important periods in the history of the Festival.

    Dates: 

    Monday, June 20, 2016 (All day) to Sunday, June 26, 2016 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Edinburgh Filmhouse - Edinburgh, Reino Unido

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