Events

  • [+] Film Collective - Experimental Films by Makino Takashi & Rei Hayama

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    Close-Up and OtherFilm present a series of films by experimental filmmakers Makino Takashi and Rei Hayama. The films of Takashi and Hayama, two founding members of the Tokyo film collective [+], are hallucinatory distortions evoking chaos and patterns, nature and organic forms, filtered through an undulating macro and micro impasto view. Takashi’s performative films use points of threshold to push the viewer into beautifully overwhelming transcendent states – where visual and sonic noise engulf senses and imagination. Hayama’s films make gentle use of available resources – soil and insects become her abstract muses, and hand cranked celluloid film processed in coffee are subtle throw backs to harmonious ways of being.  

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 20:00 to Thursday, November 26, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
  • Balagan presents... Frenkel Defects III

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    Balagan and the Film Study Center at Harvard proudly welcome Kevin Rice of the Colorado-based nonprofit organization, Process Reversal, to presents the third installment of a unique traveling film series – Frenkel Defects.

    This recurring series aims to explore what it means to work in – and exhibit on – photochemical film today by examining works from artists operating specifically within this practice. Often, this involves getting their hands dirty at every stage of the process from optical effects to developing, editing and contact printing, optical sound recording, and even the creation of the photosensitive emulsion itself... As a result (and as suggested by the series' title), creative aberrations make their way into the standard photochemical process, giving birth to a new, textural aesthetic that plays out on the surface of the film strip. More than ever before, film reminds us of its physicality; giving a new sense to Andrei Tarkovsky’s idea of “sculpting in time.”

    Dates: 

    Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 19:30
    Friday, October 23, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts - Cambridge, United States
  • Balagan presents... A Breathing Passage: The Films of Stephen Broomer

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    In the past half-decade, Toronto-based Stephen Broomer has established himself as one of the most prolific and poetic experimental filmmakers of the day. His works seamlessly traverse the mediums of photochemical film and digital video, exploiting the particularities of each and bringing them together to create densely-layered, highly textural moving canvases. Not content to fall into formulaic practice, he continues to expand upon his cinematic vocabulary with each work, informed by greats such as Brakhage yet distinct in approach and methodology. Balagan and MassArt Film Society are pleased to co-present a near complete retrospective of Stephen Broomer's films to date.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 20:00 to Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos
  • Beyond the Surface

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    From October 19th to 24th - 2015 Labor Neunzehn proudly presents the film screening programme Beyond the surface.

    International artists have been invited to contribute their films to create different ways of perceiving, transforming, articulating, deconstructing the subtext that triggers the title of this series. The things of the world are not represented by our minds at any given moment, and usually their life is not accessible to us, but hidden, concealed, or withdrawn. Whether we stay, go beyond or beneath, we are moving around the surface, by a language of desire and suppression that turns the interiority inside-out and inflects the outward forms in a moltitude of facets. From the RGB screen in itself to precise political and postcolonial contexts, from war to entertainment, from dream to vision, we come across the surface. A concealing-movement that will be fulfilled optically, and with a self-published catalogue, distributed in occasion of the event.

    Dates: 

    Monday, October 19, 2015 - 14:00 to Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 17:55
    Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 14:00 to Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 17:55
    Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 14:00 to Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 17:55
    Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 14:00 to Friday, October 23, 2015 - 17:55
    Friday, October 23, 2015 - 14:00 to Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 17:55
    Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 14:00 to Sunday, October 25, 2015 - 17:55

    Venue: 

    Labor Neunzehn - Berlin, Germany
  • Hues of the Spectrum Rise from View

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    Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires and Media City Film Festival / Underground Mines present: Hues of the Spectrum Rise from View, with works by Joyce Wieland, Daïchi Saïto, Alexandre Larose, Chris Kennedy and others. Introduction by Oona Mosna and dialogue with Malena Szlam and Andrés Denegri, in-person. Curated by Oona Mosna.

    Presented in partnership with the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto.

    Dates: 

    Friday, October 16, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, October 17, 2015 - 18:55

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  • Spectral Presence

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    During the 42nd Film Fest Gent, Art Cinema OFFoff collaborates with Vooruit and Film Fest Gent and brings a night focused on (British) Expanded Cinema. The visitors will be dazzled by multiple projections on one screen and become the protagonists. Expect both iconic and (yet) unknown performances from the (British) underground.

    Programme

    Dates: 

    Friday, October 23, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Vooruit - Ghent, Belgium
  • Experimental Landscapes I: Landscape and the Body at Work and Play

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    Filmforum presents the first in a series of screenings devoted to experimental cinema and landscape, with a program that explores the connection between labor, leisure, landscape, and the moving image. For as long as artists have taken the landscape as an object worthy of their scrutiny, the human body has served them as its measure and its foil. Whether at work or at play, whether above or below, it is the body from which we view the landscapes we inhabit, just as we survey the landscape—as if by instinct—for signs of the bodies that inhabit it, give it form, depth, and meaning.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, October 18, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian - Los Angeles, United States
  • Alarm Songs and Anomalies

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    A screening of works by two Montreal-based artists who embed video in multi-media environments and situations. For her 2012 installation, Anomalies, Julie Favreau took as inspiration a Soviet-era novella about science gone awry, but then utterly transformed it into a series of sci-fi scenarios with enigmatic objects, to “suggest parables about the judicious use of knowledge and technology, and about personal discipline and mindfulness” (Saelan Twerdy, Canadian Art). Dominique Sirois’s recently completed project, Alarm Songs, orchestrates the passage from modernity to the dystopian now using sampled warning sounds from a music database and texts by Freud, Stockhausen, and the Russian poet Alexei Gastev. The suite of four videos connects different epochs through quasi-allegorical figures and narratives to reveal the past function and latent memory of the locations they were filmed in, millenial pantomimes that track the development of militarism, industrialization, globalization, and leisure, as forms of social control.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canada
  • S E A S O N O F S P I R I T S - A program of films by Stephen Broomer

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    Mono No Aware would like to invite you to join us for a special screening presentation with friend and film historian Stephen Broomer. Come and see a selection of inspiring 16mm films created over the last 5 years. These moving images will follow a surface treatment workshop led by the artist where he'll share some of his surface techniques with participants. This is a unique opportunity to share the workspace with this artist from Toronto and also experience his films in person. Broomer's work has screened at Views from the Avant-Garde, TIFF Wavelengths, the Berlin Directors Lounge and is the subject of a new release by Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute * Institut canadien du film, a collection of essays edited by Scott Birdwise and Tom McSorley, entitled "The Transformable Moment: The Films of Stephen Broomer." 2014.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, October 18, 2015 - 19:00 to Monday, October 19, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Center for Performance Research - New York, United States

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