Events

  • Indefinite Visions

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    This two-day event brings together academics, film-makers and artists for presentations, conversations, and screenings to explore the indefinite and the illegible in experimental film, artists’ film and video, and commercial cinema.

    Light, motion, definition, compression: the conditions of recording, storing and screening moving image are subject to constant variations that pull them away from perfect visibility. Film-makers and artists often seek out and work with the resulting visual uncertainty, from the warping of space to the melding of senses; speed to slowness; darkness to glare; and blur to glitch. Indefinite Visions explores the possibility that an important function of moving image is not to show but to obscure, and that – like the photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up – the closer and deeper we look at an image, the less clear it becomes.

    Dates: 

    Friday, June 24, 2016 (All day) to Saturday, June 25, 2016 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Whitechapel Gallery - London, United Kingdom
  • Montreal Underground Film Festival 2016

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    The 11th edition of the Montréal Underground Film Festival (MUFF) hits the screens over a four-day period from May 19 to 22, 2016. This year, the MUFF collective has selected the 95 finest and most innovative shorts by local and international artists. A celebration of subversive and experimental moving image works!

    Programme:

    OPENING NIGHT
    Thursday, May 19th, 8:00pm – 90 minutes (screenings at 9pm)
    La Sala Rossa (4848 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal)
    Programmers: MUFF Collective

    Dates: 

    Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 20:00 to Monday, May 23, 2016 - 03:55

    Venue: 

    Microcinéma être - Montreal, Canada
  • Peephole Cinema: Kaleidaeye

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    The Peephole Cinema is pleased to present Kaleidaeye –reflections on infinite systems. Work by Benjamin Popp, Jodie Mack and Sabrina Schmid will be on view 24 hours a day from May 24th through July 4th, 2016. The show is curated by Sarah Klein.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, May 24, 2016 (All day) to Monday, July 4, 2016 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Peephole Cinema San Francisco - San Francisco, United States
  • Balagan presents... the films of Will Hindle

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    From that late fifties until his death in 1987, Will Hindle was a major figure in the American Avant-Garde and what has been called the Personal Film Movement, as defined by a conscious move away from the industrial methods of production toward a more individualistic and idiosyncratic cinema. Incredibly technically adept as well as emotionally astute, Hindle utilized complex optical effects to craft beautiful, evocative and densely-layered short films that play out vividly like dreams and resonate long after. Being neither wholly abstract nor rooted to narrative form, the fictive elements within the films tend to forgo exposition, instead working with the images, colors, and sound to create a strong sensorial experience that channels a deep empathetic response within the viewer.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, May 20, 2016 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Coolidge Corner Theatre - Brookline, United States
  • MuMaBoX #48: The Intelligence of the Signal

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    The signal is the essence of sound and digital image: from the invisible material information to the naked eye, codified and flowing through the filmic technologies of the age of the Web. Its access, of paramount importance, is in protected mode (Friedrich Kittler). On one side digital tools are built as black boxes in the middle of which the signal processing is carefully rendered opaque and inaccessible. On the other, private companies and governments of the intelligence services have unlimited technological power of interception and investigation of signals to conduct their surveillance and profiling globally. Rejecting this paradox, some artists like Pierre-Yves Cruaud, HC Gilje, Paolo Gioli, Benjamin Muzzin, Jacques Perconte, Leighton Pierce, Joost Rekveld, Sadia Sadia, Jerome Schlomoff, develop signal intelligence: they thus pass its regulated treatment according to the standards of audiovisual experimentation to release the untapped plastic resources and express all the strata of the artist's sensibility.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 18:00 to Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 17:55

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  • Kurt Kren: Structural Films - Screening and Book Launch

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    Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the post-war period. His structural films, often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately pre-scored charts and diagrams, have influenced filmmakers for decades, even as Kren himself has remained a nomadic and obscure public figure. Kurt Kren: Structural Films, edited by Nicky Hamlyn, Simon Payne, and A. L. Rees, brings together interviews with Kren, film scores, and classic out-of-print essays alongside the reflections of contemporary academics and filmmakers, to add much-needed critical discussion of Kren’s legacy. Taken together, the collection challenges the canonical view of Kren that ignores his underground lineage and powerful, lyrical imagery.

    Dates: 

    Monday, May 30, 2016 - 19:00 to Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
  • Sally Golding: Your Double My Double Our Ghost

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    Australian-British artist Sally Golding presents two new audiovisual installations which conclude her year-long Embedded residency, delivered in partnership with Sound and Music and the South London Gallery (SLG).

    The installations explore Golding’s interest in perception and phenomenology, and consider audiovisual art as a participatory experience. Golding’s work questions states of reality, challenging notions of narrative and the act of perceiving through the deployment of sonic and visual fragments, and the reworking of the bare components of audiovisual media such as light, substrate, and amplification.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, May 25, 2016 (All day) to Sunday, May 29, 2016 (All day)

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  • Sound Screening Vol.4: Philip Widmann in person

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    Is it possible to perceive the same moment from different perspectives?

    "Sound Screening" explores expansion of visual and auditory sensation. Philip Widmann presents his 3 films in person, who makes original worlds by experimental and documentary technique. The works include latest film which got a deep response all over the world.  The film title Fictitious Force means physical force which we can't feel from the outside of a system, it refers to impossibility of sharing experiences. Moreover, Shinkan Tamaki shows his new performance which develops optical experiments at hand, and biki & Satoshi Kanda duo will construct space by setting objects and phenomena.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, May 22, 2016 - 16:00 to Monday, May 23, 2016 - 15:55

    Venue: 

    Space Dike Tokyo - Taito-ku, Japan
  • CASdB: Barbara Hammer's Welcome to this House

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    "Barbara Hammer paints a colorful portrait of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, from her childhood to her death in 1979. Bishop described herself as “timorously kicking around the coastlines of the world,” and the film is loosely organized around her stays in Nova Scotia, Key West, Brazil, and Cambridge—the homes she made for herself and the lovers she took. Never “out” as a lesbian—the concept would have been foreign to the writer who graduated from Vassar in the thirties—Bishop nonetheless actively pursued women, from her first summer-camp crush to her last affair. Hammer examines Bishop from all angles, interviewing everyone from literary luminaries like Marie-Claire Blais and Edmund White to Lota’s aged former maid. Hammer pulls the viewer into Bishop’s world, blending present day footage of each location with archival photos, and recreating moments in the writer’s life." Adapted from text by Monica Nolan (Frameline)

    Dates: 

    Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 20:00 to Friday, May 27, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Luminor Hôtel de Ville - Paris, France
  • Mosquito Cinema: Journey to the West

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    In his essay “Ghosts in the Darkness”, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, describes his childhood cinematic experiences. Before the invention of VHS, people would go to theatres as if visiting temples to pay homage, they would wear their best outfits and attend with reverence. Going to the theatre and buying tickets for a movie was almost like attending a sacred ritual; the directors and stars of the movie were like gods in temples. Eventually when VHS was introduced in his town the number of people going to theatres declined. Whereas Apichatpong found other movie gods in other cities, gods like Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Jean-Luc Godard, the former moviegoes disappeared, leading Apichatpong to call them “ghosts“.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, May 14, 2016 - 18:00 to Sunday, May 15, 2016 - 17:55

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