Events

  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind

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    Inspired by a new video from visually impaired artist Lorne Marin (his first moving-image work in over 30 years), this program envisions the act of film/video-making as an attempt to trace that which can no longer be seen. These artists explore the image’s transformation as it passes from the immediacy of seeing to the cages of memory, manipulating materials in ways that directly or indirectly evoke an array of perceptual aberrations. From common chemical reactions to encroaching blindness, these interferences remind us of the lamentable fragility of our sight. But they also reinforce the mind’s ability to capture fleeting visions that, though long lost, may never be forgotten.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, November 28, 2015 - 20:00 to Sunday, November 29, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Cinecycle - Toronto, Canada
  • OJOBOCA & Klara Ravat

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    On the evening of Thursday, November 26 the works of Klara Ravat and the OJOBOCA collective will be screened at the facilities in the Goethe Institut of Barcelona. This activity advertised with the explicit title of Experimental analogue film projections is part of the activities organized on the occasion of the sixty years of the Goethe Institut in Barcelona. Klara Ravat presents a selection of works on film (super 8 and 16 mm) ranging from collage of abstract forms to impressionism with a feminist background, passing through both visual and olfactory perceptual games. Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy, from OJOBOCA will offer a set of films that are born from filmic experimentation, implemented by hand during the filming and developing processes, to propose a session entitled Horrorism for beginners, beginners for horrorism, revealing participatory psychological concerns.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, November 26, 2015 - 18:00 to Friday, November 27, 2015 - 17:55

    Venue: 

    Goethe-Institut Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
  • Klaus Wyborny: Cinema and the experience of time

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    As a preview of the upcoming season of Xcèntric, centring on the relations between science and film, we’ll be visited by Klaus Wyborny, physicist, mathematician, musician and filmmaker. First he’ll be talking about time in cinema on the basis of his films and then we’ll see one of his most important works.

    6pm Lecture: Cinema and the experience of time

    Dates: 

    Thursday, November 26, 2015 - 18:00 to Friday, November 27, 2015 - 17:55

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  • Feux d'artifices: 30 years of Paris Expérimental

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    Since 1985, publisher Paris Expérimental has become a singular meeting point between experimental cinema and its history. With around fifty landmark publications and events, this publishing house has contributed in France to the knowledge and recognition of experimental film forms that have often been marginalised.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 14:00 to Thursday, November 26, 2015 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
  • First Thought, Best Thought: A Compendium of Camera Roll Films

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    Using a single hundred-foot roll of 16mm film to create an unedited camera-roll film -- fresh from the lab and onto the screen -- has a certain appeal to me. Partly it’s the practical aspect of DIY efficacy that comes with circumventing the costly steps of post-production. With editing there is something diluted from this raw power of the pure, unadulterated footage, no matter how masterfully the material is pruned and refashioned. Perhaps the phrase of Allen Ginsberg, Chogyam Trungpa, and others, “First thought, best thought” expresses this energy present in the camera-roll film?

    Dates: 

    Friday, December 4, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, December 5, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Filmmakers Co-op - New York, United States
  • Nathaniel Dorsky: Film Stills

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    Every shot is the narrative and the narrative is every shot.” from “Devotional Cinema” by Nathaniel Dorsky

    Peter Blum is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographic works by Nathaniel Dorsky. Film Stills is the first exhibition of the artist’s work at Peter Blum Gallery on view at 20 West 57th Street, New York. There will be an opening reception on Thursday November 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition runs through January 9, 2016.

    Nathaniel Dorsky’s photographs extract intimate moments of observation from his acclaimed silent films. This exhibition features a suite of 30 archival pigment prints that distill the poetic spatial layering of the films. If Dorsky’s films are like a waking dream, then the film stills are a memory of that dream—a crystallization of the meditative state achieved by the moving image and an absolute value by which to measure the fleetingness of our collective existence.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, November 19, 2015 (All day) to Saturday, January 9, 2016 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Peter Blum Gallery - New York, United States
  • In Vino Veritas: Secrets of the Intoxicated Life

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    Drugs have been used to access the spiritual dimensions of existence in many cultures since the dawn of civilization.  Artists have likewise sought to escape the confines of the rational mind through the use of substances that expand the senses, alter perception, and suspend the repression of the conscious mind. And others, eager to subvert the conventions of a prevailing culture, have hoped to achieve liberation and even Enlightenment by modifying how they thought.  In Vino Veritas: Secrets of the Intoxicated Life will explore the heights and depths of consciousness to reveal truths inaccessible to the sober.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, November 21, 2015 - 20:00 to Sunday, November 22, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    The Sunview Luncheonette - New York, United States
  • DIM Cinema: Almanac (Circa 1970)

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    In 1970, a unique project was commissioned by the Stills Division of the National Film Board of Canada: fifteen West Coast artists -- many of them using a camera for the first time -- were invited to create a series of photographic booklets that were later compiled into an anthology. The B.C. Almanac(h) C-B artists conceived the book as an exhibition, and designed the accompanying exhibition as a 3-D version of the book’s production. To bring to light this forgotten event in the history of West Coast media art, Presentation House Gallery has reprinted the anthology and remounted the exhibition, along with works from the period by artists featured in the book.

    Dates: 

    Monday, November 23, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canadá

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