Events

  • CROSSROADS 2015, program 2: Paul Clipson and Grouper: Hypnosis Display

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    In Person: Paul Clipson and GrouperSCREENING:- Hypnosis Display (2014) by Paul Clipson and Grouper; 16mm, color, sound, 75 minutes, from the maker bay area premiereExploring impressionistic, emotional and sensory environments found within the vast natural and urban landscapes of America. Neither image nor sound takes precedence: the two interact and combine preserving a raw sense of the discovery that field recordings and in-camera edited film rushes often yield. Hypnosis Display was commissioned by Opera North Projects.

    Dates: 

    Friday, April 10, 2015 - 21:30

    Venue: 

    Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, United States
  • CROSSROADS 2015, program 1: visitations, dreams of falls (watch them collapsing)

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    IN PERSON: Tommy Becker; Jon Behrens and Vanessa Renwick- LAYOVER (2014) by Vanessa Renwick; digital video, color, sound, 6 minutes, from the maker—A swan song for the factory age. A vortex of swirling Vaux’s Swifts which layover for three weeks in Portland OR each fall on their migration to South America. Birds swoop over our demise, their relentless choreography signaling a new start.

    Dates: 

    Friday, April 10, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, United States
  • Animation and Earthworks; Eyeworks and Errata: Films by Alexander Stewart

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    The films of Chicago-based filmmaker/graphic artist (and co-director of Chicago’s Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation) Alexander Stewart are variously energetic and animated and oddly geological. They flirt with the legacies of structural film and psychedelic cinema while adding significantly to the obscure traditions of the hand-drawn animation and film-as-abstract-graphic-art.

    Dates: 

    Friday, March 27, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Artists' Television Access - San Francisco, United States
  • The Body Extended: Works by Scott Stark

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    Scott Stark has produced more than 75 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images. Born and educated in the midwest, he has always been interested in aggressively pushing his work beyond the threshold of traditional viewing expectations, challenging the audience to question its relationship to the cinematic process; yet he also tries to build into the work elements of humor and incongruity that allow the viewer an entryway into the work while maintaining a critical distance. Both a passionate purist and a cynical skeptic, he likes to emphasize the physicality of film while cross-referencing it to the world outside the theater, attempting to lay bare the paradoxes of modern culture and the magical nature of the perceptual experience.

    Dates: 

    Monday, April 6, 2015 - 21:00 to Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    The Red Room - Baltimore, United States
  • Screening Room (1972-1981): A Tribute to Robert Gardner

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    In association with the festival Cinema du Reel, the film department of the Centre Pompidou pays a tribute to Robert Gardner from March 19th to March 28th. Anthropologist and filmmaker, founder of the Film Study Center at Harvard University, Robert Gardner is the author of a singular oeuvre, dedicated to distant societies – from the Dani's tribe of New Guinea (Dead Birds, 1964) to the Ika Indians of Colombia (Ika Hands, 1988) or the Hamar in Ethiopia (River of Sand, 1973) - as well as po

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 19:00 to Friday, March 20, 2015 - 18:55
    Friday, March 20, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 18:55
    Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 19:00 to Sunday, March 22, 2015 - 18:55
    Sunday, March 22, 2015 - 19:00 to Monday, March 23, 2015 - 18:55
    Monday, March 23, 2015 - 19:00 to Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 18:55
    Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 19:00 to Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 18:55
    Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 19:00 to Friday, March 27, 2015 - 18:55
    Friday, March 27, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 18:55
    Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 19:00 to Sunday, March 29, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
  • Godina & Marc on Film (Presented by Jurij Meden)

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    Introductions and Q&A by Jurij Meden, Curator of Film Exhibitions at the George Eastman House

    Karpo Godina, arguably the most internationally acclaimed Slovenian filmmaker and cinematographer, launched his career in the mid-sixties with a quick succession of independently produced 8mm experimental shorts, predominantly designed to question everything he was being taught at the state film academy. DIVJAD, PES and ANNO PASSATO, which comprise only a small part of this succession, are primarily exercises in motion: constant motion of the gaze, constant motion in front of the gaze, motion in all known and unknown directions, all linked together through seemingly random editing and mere hints of lustful stories.

    Dates: 

    Monday, March 30, 2015 - 19:30 to 21:30

    Venue: 

    Hoyt Auditorium - Rochester, United States
  • Light Movement 3: Werner Nekes

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    Light Movement presents Werner Nekes' Diwan, a film anthology in five installments: 1. sun-a-mul (16 min) 2. alternatim (15 min) 3. kantilene (17 min) 4. moto (16 min) 5. hynningen (21 min). The fifth installment, "hynningen" was awarded the Bundesfilmpreis in Silber in 1975.

    "Hynningen (Swedish for 'honey roof') begins with long multiple exposures of a landscape with a clearing, opening up to the horizon. In the middle of the clearing there is a simple log cabin of the type characteristic of Northern Europe or Quebec. There are actors a man and a woman - at the window, at the doorway, strolling in the grass, doubled or even tripled by multiple exposure. Traces they have left at different moments of the day and in the changing light appear as gentle phantoms. If our varying perceptions would outlast changes in location we would experience a strong sense of continuity and of repetition.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Echo Bücher - Berlin, Germany
  • Cinema Anèmic #03: Lluís de Sola

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    Presents... "Water"

    Projection of a set of 16mm films by Lluís de Sola, with water as their common denominator. Shooting of natural environments such as rivers and beaches duly altered by the watery substance itself present in the documented places. A flowing cinema like river currents, eroding as the waves of the sea.

    Dates: 

    Friday, March 20, 2015 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    Espai ST3 - Barcelona, Spain
  • Even the Good Times Were Bad: The New Pluralism Revisited

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    Students in the MRes Art: Moving Image programme at Central Saint Martins/LUX present a screening in response to The New Pluralism, a mid-decade survey of British film and video art held at the Tate Gallery in April 1985. Curators Michael O’Pray and Tina Keane selected nearly one hundred works for the exhibition in an ambitious attempt to map the pluralistic practices and politics that emerged as a reaction against the Structuralist aesthetic of 1970s British experimental film. Revisiting this exhibition as a moment rather than a movement, the students will reactivate some of these works within a contemporary critical framework. Works shown as part of this programme will include Kim Flitcroft and Sandra Goldbacher’s Scratch video supercut Night of a Thousand Eyes (1984) and Mark Wilcox’s surreal, proto-Lynchian videotape Calling the Shots (1984).

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 14:30

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  • Film as Film: Theory and Practice in the Work of Gregory J. Markopoulos

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    Film as Film: Theory and Practice in the Work of Gregory J. MarkopoulosSymposium & ScreeningsBasel, 23 & 24 April 2015

    Basel University, eikones Forum and Stadkino Basel will host Film as Film: Theory and Practice in the Work of Gregory J. Markopoulos on 23 & 24 April 2015. This symposium and screening series is the first of its kind to be focused on Markopoulos, and will bring together many of the most knowledgeable individuals interested in his work. This event is open to the public.

    The Greek-American filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928–1992) was one of the key figures in the development of postwar avant-garde film, and a co-founder of the New American Cinema Group. In his exquisitely stylized and dreamlike early films, and in the stunning works of the sixties and seventies, Markopoulos formulated a maverick aesthetic characterized by incomparable formal rigor, fascinating beauty, and the penetrating representation of interior worlds that emerge from the entwinement of image and sound into an ecstatic filmic language.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, April 23, 2015 (All day)
    Friday, April 24, 2015 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Basel Stadtkino - Basel, Switzerland

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