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  • Oberhausen Seminar 2024

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    In 2024, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is organising the Oberhausen Seminar for the tenth time.

    Young and upcoming professionals can apply now for the five-day seminar as part of the 70th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. The Oberhausen Seminar is an experimental course designed to explore contemporary artists' moving image practice in the context of a renowned international film festival.

    Deadline: 

    Monday, March 11, 2024 (All day)
  • By Way of Fluxus: Closing, Screening, Dumplings

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    Works by George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas and more
    In Person Only

    Microscope is excited to present “By Way of Fluxus…” celebrating the spirit of Fluxus, artist friendships, and cross-cultural/generational exchange as the closing event of our current exhibition “Shigeru Izumi: Entrusted, New York Paintings 1959-1962.”

    Dates: 

    Saturday, March 9, 2024 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Microscope Gallery - New York, United States
  • Lynn Loo - Film/video screening and performance

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    Lynn Loo (UK) is an international experimental filmmaker who explores the relationship between sound and image in film and video. She will be an artist in residence at Center (Tochigi/Japan) in March this year. She will be performing expended cinema and screening her latest work (Japan premiere). This will be a very rare opportunity to digest and trace Lynn's history.

    March 29th, 2024
    Start 7pm

    Advance 2,000JPY
    Door 2,500JPY
    including one drink

    Dates: 

    Friday, March 29, 2024 - 19:00

    Venue: 

  • Takashi Ito: Animating Spirits in 16mm

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    Japanese film wizard Takashi Ito is rightfully considered one of the most unique and thrilling practitioners of experimental cinema over the last few decades, and his 16mm films routinely leave audiences awestruck. Utilizing a combination of extraordinary in-camera animation techniques and inspired photographic alchemy, Ito harnesses the fundamental processes of cinema with his visionary and technically astonishing analog methods to create films that re-fashion reality and conjure the impossible. 

    Dates: 

    Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Academy Museum of Motion Pictures - Los Angeles, United States
  • MY EYES ! MY EYES ! : Presents an Evening with Duncan Reekie

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    Duncan Reekie will present and perform a selection of work including early Super 8 films, recent digital video and the world premiere of a new performance. Reekie has been a malign influence on British Underground Cinema for over twenty years. He has produced a diverse body of work that explores a variety of styles, techniques and purpose, including narrative drama, scratching and colouring celluloid, multiple superimpositions, video collage and lyrical visions.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 19:00

    Venue: 

    The Roebuck - London, United Kingdom
  • Matthias Müller Early Film Works with Dirk Schaefer in conversation

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    In association with purge.xxx, Close-Up presents a rare programme of Matthias Müller’s earliest film works, in the presence of sound designer and composer, Dirk Schaefer.

    Aus der Ferne - The Memo Book, 1989, 28 min
    Sleepy Haven, 1993, 15 min
    Alpsee, 1994, 15 min
    Pensão Globo, 1997, 15 min
    Vacancy, 1998, 14 min

    Dates: 

    Saturday, March 16, 2024 - 20:00

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido
  • 2nd Xenia Film Festival

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    HOSPITALITY as a filmic space (second edition)

    Xenia Open Air Film Festival is an international event that celebrates the concept and practice of Hospitality, which has been an integral part of many cultures since ancient times. Stories about Hospitality often revolve around a mutual exchange between hosts and guests, and globally, this tradition has connected culture and united humans, irrespective of social status, race, or religion. Today, Hospitality seems even more relevant, a beautiful and mutually beneficial exchange that fosters a ripple effect of sharing, support, and inclusion.

    Deadline: 

    Friday, May 31, 2024 (All day)

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