Events

  • Sarah Pucill: Magic Mirror / Confessions to the Mirror

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    We're pleased to present a double bill of Sarah Pucill's two feature-length experiments in bringing cinematic life to the photographic and written archive of the French Surrealist Claude Cahun. Pucill will be in conversation with Laura Guy following each screening.

    February 19, 18:30h
    - Confessions to the Mirror (Sarah Pucill, 2016, 68 min, Colour, DCP)
    Q&A with Sarah Pucill and Laura Guy

    Dates: 

    Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 18:30

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
  • Troubling the Image: Landscapes of Light

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    The five-program series "Troubling the Image: New + Restored Experimental Cinema" features an eclectic and wide-ranging group of works that celebrate the vibrancy of experimental and almost-experimental cinema from near and far, now and then.

    Landscapes of Light features works about place that alternate between close observations of the everyday and more expansive and dislocated views of the world. This program is anchored by two beautiful films by Dane Komljen, Our Body (2015) and All Still Orbit (2016; co-directed by James Lattimer), that imbue place with tenuous histories, personal and political. Arash Nassiri’s Tehran-geles (2015) is a nocturnal flight around the buildings of Tehran, a disorienting view of lights, commercial structures, and signage that could double for Times Square or Las Vegas. Also showing are Peter Hutton’s Boston Fire (1979), Julie Murray’s Distance (2010) and Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field (2016). Onscreen preshow is Lois Patiño’s video Strata of the Image (2015).

    Dates: 

    Friday, February 24, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, February 25, 2017 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Logan Center for the Arts - Chicago, Estados Unidos
  • The Festival of (In)appropriation #9

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    Whether you call it collage, compilation, found footage, détournement, or recycled cinema, the incorporation of already existing media into new artworks is a practice that generates novel juxtapositions and new meanings and ideas, often in ways entirely unrelated to the intentions of the original makers.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian - Los Angeles, Estados Unidos
  • What’s Left Behind: The Films of Tony Gault, Roger Beebe, and Elizabeth Henry

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    On the eve of the 9th edition of the Festival of (In)appropriation, Los Angeles Filmforum is thrilled to present this intimate prelude, featuring works by three stalwarts of the found-footage filmmaking universe. Orbiting at the upper reaches of the avant-docu-sphere, the works of Tony Gault, Roger Beebe, and Elizabeth Henry offer remarkable explorations of creation and destruction, desire and loss, land and spirit.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, February 18, 2017 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian - Los Angeles, Estados Unidos
  • Cineinfinito #11: Richard Martin

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    Richard Martin is a filmmaker from Vancouver Canada. At 19 he began directing and editing documentary films at the National Film Board of Canada. He was inspired by the West Coast film scene of Dave Rimmer and Al Razutis and began his own explorations in cinema. "Diminished", produced in 1979 won Honorable Mention at the 9th Northwest Film Festival and screened at Ann Arbor.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 17:00 to Sunday, March 19, 2017 - 16:55

    Venue: 

    Filmoteca de Cantabria - Santander, España
  • Close-Up Cinema: George Kuchar-Weather Diaries + Greetings from Boulder

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    We're thrilled to present a rare screening of the visual diaries of the renowned American independent filmmaker George Kuchar, bringing together his series of films known as the Weather Diaries for the first time in the UK. Greetings from Boulder, an earlier tape from one of Kuchar’s reflective vacations in Colorado, will also be screened alongside the Diaries. The programme will be introduced via Skype by Professor Scott MacDonald, one of the leading academics in the field of experimental film.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, February 18, 2017 - 14:30

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
  • Independent Frames: Underground Cartoons

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    Marv Newland’s early counterculture animation Bambi Meets Godzilla stages a brief, irreverent encounter between the two characters, whereas Standish Lawder’s Runaway subjects a short cartoon loop to a series of hypnotic mediations and interventions.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 17:00 to Monday, February 20, 2017 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Tate Modern - London , Reino Unido
  • Independent Frames: Introspection

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    ​American animators in the 1970s and 1980s often turned their attention inward, producing personal films that corresponded to the deeply introspective diary filmmakers that formed a key part of the New American Cinema in the previous decade. Representing oneself in a mediated fashion – not only through the moving image but graphically through animation – became particularly important during this period in which more women were active in the field of animation than ever before.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 14:30 to 16:30

    Venue: 

    Tate Modern - London , Reino Unido
  • Independent Frames: Bodymania

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    From morphing bodies engaged in rapturous copulation (Desire Pie) to disembodied parts (The Club, Seed Reel), artists respond to the waning sexual revolution and the women’s movement, expressing agency and stimulation while at the same time depicting complex forms of desire.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, February 18, 2017 - 17:00 to Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Tate Modern - London , Reino Unido
  • Independent Frames: Shape and Structure

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    While structural film was the dominant form within the avant-garde tradition at the dawn of the 1970s, animators used shape and structure in a variety of ways that differentiated their works. Robert Russett composed geometric patterns and colour sequences in complex rhythms to create his pulsing, abstract films. Paul Glabicki created incisive, analytical works that explored objects through image, language, form and movement, drafting stunningly complicated sequences by hand.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, February 18, 2017 - 14:30 to 16:30

    Venue: 

    Tate Modern - London , Reino Unido

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