Events

  • Close-Up Teaser Screening #7: Here Is Always Somewhere Else – The Disappearance Of Bas Jan Ader

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    For part six of our Teaser Screening series, writer, cultural critic and journalist Juliet Jacques will introduce a documentary on the life and work of artist Bas Jan Ader. The film will be followed by a selection of Ader's film and video works during which Jacques will read a short text relating to Bas Jan Ader's decision to cross the Atlantic on a 13ft boat.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, May 7, 2015 - 21:00 to 23:30

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
  • Normal Animal: Steve Reinke + Stephanie Barber

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    In Steve Reinke’s newest long-form video, Rib Gets in the Way, the irreverent artist and essayist ruminates upon mortality, creative (and other) impulses, PrEP and Nietzsche. Assembling a free-form series of vignettes, the final and longest section of the video presents an animated children’s adaptation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–85), with colorful creatures animated with frequent collaborator, Jessie Mott.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 20:30

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  • Xcèntric: US experimental animation of the eighties

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    A selection of US experimental animation from the eighties. The films of Jane Aaron, Brady Lewis, Gary Schwartz and Al Jarnow play with the contrast between animation and real spaces, principally using pixelation techniques for playful and experimental purposes. Protovin and Backus’s City Scapes trilogy is a documentary portrait of observation of places in Manhattan, mixing photography and animation. The films form part of the collection of the Public Library of New York, a major focus of independent animation in the seventies and eighties.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 20:00 to Friday, May 1, 2015 - 19:55

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  • Lateral Thinking: Expanded Video Performance by Andrew Puls, Kit Young and viDEO sAVant

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    Electrons meet the orgone in this overflowing smorgasbord of live sound, hybrid analog/digital video jamming, feedback loop freak outs and robotic puppet show spectacle run amuck—promising to fill Cinematheque’s Center for New Music project space with performers, projectors and gadgets galore.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, May 3, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Center for New Music - San Francisco, United States
  • Soundfigures: Films by Aura Satz

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    (Near) extinct technologies make sound visible in this program of shorts that delve into ideas of knowledge, memory, and communication. On a Chladni Plate, a device that marked the birth of acoustics, grains of sand, moving like Busby Berkeley dancers, form intricate patterns in response to changing sound frequencies, their shapes recalling the utopian quest for a “pure,” onomatopoeic alphabet. Wax cylinder recordings combine with modern scientific instruments to animate a text by Rainer Maria Rilke on the possibility of hearing the dead by playing their skulls with a gramophone needle. A histrionic voice-over, translated into a wave of small flames on a Ruben’s Tube, provokes unexpected associations, from the biblical burning bush to various acts of ventriloquism in pop culture...

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canadá
  • Scratch Projection: Dominic Angerame

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    Born in 1949 in New York, Dominic Angerame teaches, lives and works in San Francisco. Since 1969, he has directed over thirty-five films screened and awarded in many festivals around the world. He teaches directing, cinematography and criticism at the University of Berkeley in California, San Francisco Art Institute and also acted as professor and associate artist in many institutions. He led for more than 30 years of Canyon Cinema distribution cooperative. His work is greatly influenced by the avant-garde cinema, particularly the 1920s and 1930s, and explores the cycle of destruction and construction imposed by man on his urban environment, constantly changing.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    Studio des Ursulines - Paris, France
  • Fool’s Gold: California Roadtrip in an Election Year

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    Fool’s Gold: California Roadtrip in an Election Year references the theme of greed and envy told through popular legends and stories of the livelihood and moral fiber of a once wealthy, small, and rural American mining community of Trona California; after a corporate layoff and its ensuing exodus; as told thru interviews with the remaining elderly population. Historic facts spanning the Gold Rush and the 1980’s of Reagan’s presidential years, comments about “consciousness” and visuals of Cain & Abel, Zombies as “insatiable consumers” found in Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance sequence, and desert landscape of the Pinnacles National Monument and Death Valley, display an American mindset that effects war and its economic circles, the housing crisis and global financial change, and the love for consumer products and celebrity

    Dates: 

    Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 17:30

    Venue: 

    Millennium Film Workshop - New York, United States
  • Another Experiment By Women Film Festival: From The Road

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    Another Experiment By Women Film Festival presents From The Road Curated by Lili White

    Filmmaker Elizabeth Henry will join us in person for discussion about her films.

    Nora Sweeney’s film, Something Like Whales, will be screened in 16MM.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 18:00 to Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 17:55

    Venue: 

    Anthology Film Archives - New York, United States
  • Kaleidoscopic Visions: Films by Saul Levine

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    The program title Kaleidoscopic Visions was inspired by P. Adams Sitney’s description of Saul Levine’s unique style of shooting and cutting as "...fused with the kalei­do­scop­ic fury of mem­o­ry...”. The program selects films by Saul Levine from 1973 to 2011. The films represent roughly three of Saul’s major formal approaches to the small gauge formats of Regular 8mm (presented as a digital transfers and a 16mm blow up) and Super 8mm (presented in Super 8mm and 16mm blow ups).

    Filmmaker Saul Levine will be in Chicago for the Screening! Q & A following the Program!

    Dates: 

    Saturday, May 2, 2015 - 20:00 to Sunday, May 3, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    The Nightingale - Chicago, Estados Unidos
  • Xcèntric: Transients of footpaths, forests and dreams

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    The experimentation of Malena Szlam, involving a process of documentation in situ, brings the observed landscape into the space of moving image. In-camera editing lets loose the first views of woods, stars, fire and night-time landscapes, reproducing them vibrantly, preventing us from becoming habituated and allowing them to remain. On the basis of a direct link with the image, Pablo Mazzolo constructs formal paradigms, in which the kinetic image and sound constitute a single perceptive unit. His films move around the space between reality, dream and intuitive vision, coming together in an associative, sensorial experience that is different each time. ENVÍOS, by Jeannette Muñoz, is cinema that ceases to be cinema, to become a space that shows us what it was, what it is and what it could be. ENVÍOS is only possible at the small and singular scale. It is sequences, events, stories, fragments, moments, seconds. It has no object or subject, its components are heterogeneous, from differing sources and the result of different motivations. It speaks at once of the private and the public, was made with/or for one person and will be presented in a film theatre.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, May 10, 2015 - 18:30

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