Events

  • Even the Good Times Were Bad: The New Pluralism Revisited

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    Students in the MRes Art: Moving Image programme at Central Saint Martins/LUX present a screening in response to The New Pluralism, a mid-decade survey of British film and video art held at the Tate Gallery in April 1985. Curators Michael O’Pray and Tina Keane selected nearly one hundred works for the exhibition in an ambitious attempt to map the pluralistic practices and politics that emerged as a reaction against the Structuralist aesthetic of 1970s British experimental film. Revisiting this exhibition as a moment rather than a movement, the students will reactivate some of these works within a contemporary critical framework. Works shown as part of this programme will include Kim Flitcroft and Sandra Goldbacher’s Scratch video supercut Night of a Thousand Eyes (1984) and Mark Wilcox’s surreal, proto-Lynchian videotape Calling the Shots (1984).

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 14:30

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  • Film as Film: Theory and Practice in the Work of Gregory J. Markopoulos

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    Film as Film: Theory and Practice in the Work of Gregory J. Markopoulos
    Symposium & Screenings
    Basel, 23 & 24 April 2015

    Basel University, eikones Forum and Stadkino Basel will host Film as Film: Theory and Practice in the Work of Gregory J. Markopoulos on 23 & 24 April 2015. This symposium and screening series is the first of its kind to be focused on Markopoulos, and will bring together many of the most knowledgeable individuals interested in his work. This event is open to the public.

    The Greek-American filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928–1992) was one of the key figures in the development of postwar avant-garde film, and a co-founder of the New American Cinema Group. In his exquisitely stylized and dreamlike early films, and in the stunning works of the sixties and seventies, Markopoulos formulated a maverick aesthetic characterized by incomparable formal rigor, fascinating beauty, and the penetrating representation of interior worlds that emerge from the entwinement of image and sound into an ecstatic filmic language.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, April 23, 2015 (All day)
    Friday, April 24, 2015 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Basel Stadtkino - Basel, Switzerland
  • Gowanathon III: Gowanus Experimental Film Fest

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    Curated by Michael Woods & featuring a program by Mono no aware the Gowanus Experimental Filmfest (April 3 – 5) will consist  of three screenings “Mono No Aware Spring Mix 2015″, “Gowanus Underground” & “Brooklyn Zoo” featuring the work of: Bobby Abate, Michelle Chu, Sarah Dahnke, Jimmy Ferguson, Lorenzo Gattorna, Steve Girard, Jason Halprin, Nick Heppding, Bryn Jackson, Josh Lewis, Simon Liu, Keith Miller, Michael Robinson, Margaret Rorison, Joel Schlemowitz, Cassandra Sechler, MM Serra, Jessie Stead, Mark Street and many others.

    Dates: 

    Friday, April 3, 2015 (All day)
    Saturday, April 4, 2015 (All day)
    Sunday, April 5, 2015 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Gowanus Arts - New York, United States
  • A cocktail of mistakes, or a mistake of cocktails: The (notorious) legend of Robert Beck Memorial Cinema in 2 or 3 easy lessons

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    Every Tuesday night for more than a hex of years, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema illuminated the snowy-white screen of the Collective Unconscious on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Initiated by Brian Frye & immediately joined by Bradley Eros, both shared the core curating frenzy of this no-budget operation, managing to produce over 300 programs and exhibiting more than a thousand artists. When Frye left, it relocated & regrouped, mutating into Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema at Participant Inc’s gallery just around the corner, for a year, with a team of at least six, but primarily & irrepressibly Eros & Joel Schlemowitz. It later became a restless, nomadic cinema, mushrooming & mutating in myriad incarnations, most notoriously at Issue Project Room on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, both indoors and out. Lastly, it explored more artworld and musical contexts, transforming the field of experimental film, as both quixotic and quicksilver.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    UnionDocs - New York, United States
  • Xcèntric: Lamentations. A Monument to the Dead World. The Dream of the Last Historian

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    Jonas Mekas described R. Bruce Elder, Canadian filmmaker and writer, as “the most important US filmmaker of the eighties”. His films centre on the relations between philosophy, science and poetry. Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World. The Dream of the Last Historian is the first part of an epic monumental film that reflects on the despair of human consciousness in the postmodern world. It represents the paranoiac, transcendental mind of the poet (Elder), imagining himself as the last thinker of history. The film has a complex polyphonic structure: made up of thousands of shots, superpositions of images and texts, readings, narrations, photographs, dialogues and electronic music, it also applies poetic resources and an associative logic that seeks to change rational thought.

    Attended by Bruce Elder

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 19:00 to Friday, March 13, 2015 - 18:55

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  • Early Monthly Segments #71: Takashi Ito + Rose Lowder + Paul Sharits

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    To celebrate our sixth anniversary we’ve assembled an evening of determined visual magic, radical geometry and single frame exaltation. Takashi Ito’s sublime Spacy uses the Droste effect (or mise-en-abyme), to turn 700 photographs of a gymnasium into a glorious ten-minute kinetic voyage. Paul Sharits’s seminal Ray Gun Virus is a colour field flicker film that offers a visceral palette of sensory pleasures. Rose Lowder’s Scenes de la vie francaise: La Ciotat is from her four-part series “Scenes de la vie francaise” which references the Lumieres and shows two versions of the same scene, shot frame by frame acutely examining the impact of scale, duration and time. La Ciotat features animated landscapes of the port, dry docks, shipyard workers, launched tankers, fishermen and the beach, showing us contrasting views of the Cote d’Azur port city with graceful perception.

    Dates: 

    Monday, March 16, 2015 - 20:00 to Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Gladstone Hotel - Toronto, Canada
  • Imaginary Landscapes: Recent works by Dan Browne

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    The Factory Media Centre is proud to present the work of Toronto-based filmmaker, photographer and media artist Dan Browne. Browne has been producing films and videos for over 10 years that examine our contemporary relationships to technological and natural environments through densely kinetic audio-visual patterned forms. His most recent video works traverse the fertile territories and intersections between cinema, video installation, music, photography, painting and poetry and have been presented in a range of venues, including festivals, concerts, galleries, and public spaces.

    For his first-ever solo show, Browne will present a selection of his recent works in person, followed by a unique two-hour live performance of "memento mori", featuring musician collaborators Dan Driscoll and Steve Richman, that will rework material from the film to create an astonishing and singular live cinematic event.

    Dates: 

    Friday, March 13, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, March 14, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Factory Media Centre - Hamilton, Canada
  • Correspondence, Robert Fenz

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    Following the tradition of photographers such as James Agee, Rudolph Burckhardt or Peter Hutton, who have extended their practices to filmmaking, American artist Robert Fenz (b. 1969) documents the reality and the complexity of a globalized world by emphasizing a cinematic experience profoundly anchored to the present and marked by a constant experimentation of documentary film in its political and poetic aspects. In association with the new edition of the festival Cinéma du Réel (from March 19th till 29th), the Centre Pompidou has invited Robert Fenz to introduce a selection of his recent filmic works and to discuss his relationship with Robert Gardner (1925-2014) to whom Fenz pays a moving tribute in Correspondence (2011), a film made on the shooting locations of some major filmic achievements by the famous anthropologist and filmmaker.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 19:00 to Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
  • Avanti Screening II: Parallel lines

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    Avanti Film Discourse is happy to invite you to its second screening, featuring a fine selection of classical experimental films, as well as contemporary works. The topic of this edition: parallel lines.

    Parallels never meet, they go alongside without direct interchange. Nevertheless, there is visibility, observation of each other, which, one can argue, is enough to produce an influence, even change. Like the parallel montage technique, two story lines, which don't interfere, build a new meaning through their alignment. So this topic is a lot about indirect influence and power.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 19:30

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