Events

  • Another Experiment By Women Film Festival

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    Another Experiment By Women Film Festival

    Another Experiment by Women Film Festival promotes and screens moving images in any media, made by women, that encourage critical thinking and dialogue. Our 4th season of screenings begins with our 1st show:
    We’Re Part Of The Landscape; TRT:56 min;

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 18:00 to Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 17:55

    Venue: 

    Anthology Film Archives - New York, United States
  • Experimental documentaries: Chris Bravo, Ann Deborah Levy, Chris Lynn and Leandro Listorti

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    Curated by Tova Beck-Friedman in her on-going series that explores short experimental documentary works, this program features short films and videos about “place” — rural, urban, historic and/or contemporary — in a variety of locations in the US, the Czech Republic, China, and Uruguay.  All of the filmmakers explore their subjects in distinct visual ways and approach their soundtracks imaginatively utilizing location sounds, studio recordings, manufactured sounds, and/or silence

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 18:00 to Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 17:55

    Venue: 

    Anthology Film Archives - New York, United States
  • Stephanie Barber: a folding of risk and taker— DAREDEVILS

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    Stephanie Barber in person

    Deeply philosophical, frequently humorous and deceptively simple in form, the films, video works, poetry and book projects of Stephanie Barber operate at the intersections of spoken, written, composed, conversational and incidental language, reflecting shifting experiential qualities and varying modes of address. Barber’s feature-length DAREDEVILS (2013) is a three-part narrative portrait of risk and intimacy, presenting an interview between a young writer and an admired artist as a reverberating life event and turning point. Writes Barber, "The classic rising action, climax and denouement are sculpted, not by cause and effect, but by the subtle movements to and from understanding that are inherent in conversation. Bubbles of intimacy are blown and popped, begin to be blown again." 

    Dates: 

    Saturday, February 14, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco, United States
  • Cinema Anèmic #01: David Domingo

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    Presents ... "A terrible day that ended fatally"

    Projecting a splendid selection of films made by this film maker specialized in shooting on analog film in super 8 and 16mm. Psychedelic representations of everyday scenes, animations figurative elements reminiscent Pop and evocative portraits of queer influence are some of the constants of a particular brilliantly attractive world.

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 23, 2015 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    Espai ST3 - Barcelona, Spain
  • Direct Object/Direct Action

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    Television creates political bodies because it happens to large groups of people simultaneously; we learn our stories gathered in bars and homes or virtually together while alone, we cast ballots for our idols all via a transmission from afar. Sharing these spectacular experiences has, for better or worse, made for large populaces more uniformly formed than any that history has seen. Meanwhile, political bodies use contemporary televisual streaming tools to broadcast their own struggles. Directed by television’s innate ability to create publics, and the common usage of livestreaming in contemporary populist movements, ACRE TV will spend February and March 2015* streaming moving image work that explores broadcast art and it’s ability to function as a catalyst for moving bodies. Direct Object/Direct Action will air live, canned, episodic, durational and experimental broadcast works that position the stream as an instrument as opposed to a stage, as well as works that address the concept and histories of political direct actions.

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 23, 2015 - 18:00 to Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 23:55

    Venue: 

    ACRE TV - Chicago, United States
  • Robert Nelson: On a thread

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    Following the tradition of the west coast American independent filmmakers, Robert Nelson (1930-2012) has created a unique cinema profoundly marked by a corrosive humour and a subtle sense of self-mockery. Directed with his friend, the painter William Wiley, The Great Blondino (1967) pays an astonishing homage to the French tightrope walker Charles Blondin (XIX century) famous for having crossed the Niagara Falls on a wire. At the crossroads of European surrealism and popular American culture, the film of Robert Nelson is an invitation to a reverie with a tint of tragic absurdity. This portrayal of an uncertain universe - on the edge of consciousness and unconsciousness – is sharing with the enigmatic collage film by the American filmmaker Larry Jordan, Hamfat Asar (1965) a powerful poetry loaded with desires and death impulses.

    Screening introduced by Jonathan Pouthier (Centre Pompidou)

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 19:00 to Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
  • Gunvor Nelson: Hidden Worlds

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    Born in Sweden, Gunvor Nelson (1931-) began her artistic career as a filmmaker in the mid-60s in San Francisco (USA). Major figure of the American West coast experimental film community, she has created an extraordinary filmic oeuvre, in which we can admire both the strangeness of her characters (Fog Pumas, 1967) and the poetic nature of her imaginary worlds (My Name is Oona, 1969) and the strength of her feminist commitments (Schmeerguntz, 1966). Since the 90s, Gunvor Nelson has lived and worked in Sweden where she continues through films, videos, paintings or installations, her exploration of the Swedish landscape and identity (Light Years, 1987).

    Screening introduced by Julie Savelli (from Paul Valery University - Montpellier III)

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 19:00 to Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
  • Light Movement 1: Margaret Rorison, Lucy Parker, Lara Schröder

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    The opening screening of Light Movement will feature three contemporary filmmakers, Margaret Rorison, Lucy Parker and Lara Schröder, and will be kindly hosted at Another Vacant Space, Berlin Wedding.

    Margaret Rorison

    Margaret Rorison is a curator and filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. She works with language, sound and imagery to create installations, films and live 16mm projections. Her work is an impressionistic exploration into the visceral nature of memory and experience.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    Another Vacant Space - Berlin, Germany
  • Xcèntric: Filmed therapies - Anne Charlotte Robertson

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    The films of Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949-2012), mostly filmed in super-8, document the effects of her bipolar disorder, nervous breakdowns and internment in psychiatric centres. As she films her feelings and experiences with an intimate, direct, raw approach that is not without humour, the different layers of sound—particularly the filmmaker’s voice—generate an emotive, introspective and essayistic reflection on her life, narrated in Five Years Diary (1981-1997). After seeing her films, Jonas Mekas wrote her a letter: “I was so overwhelmed with what I saw. I don’t think it’s me who is a film diarist: it’s you! It’s you! I was very very moved and I couldn’t sleep thinking about it.” The session is complemented by a film by Carole Schneemann, one of her great influences, and the final ode that Saul Levine, her tutor at the Massachusetts College of Arts, made after her funeral.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, January 11, 2015 - 18:30

    Venue: 

  • A tribute to Maria Klonaris

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    Maria Klonaris, who sadly passed away a year ago, has left an oeuvre defined by the strength of her artistic and feminist commitments. Together with Katerina Thomadaki, they have been subverting gender and exploring the bodily identity through their films, performances, installations and multimedia works. The two films presented in this tribute to the artist, Pulsar (2001) and Selva. A Portrait of Parvaneh Navai (1981-83), illustrate the singularity of Klonaris' and Thomadaki's cinéma corporel (cinema of the body) which has left a strong mark on the experimental scene in Paris.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 19:00 to Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou - Paris, France

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