MUFF is back for its 12th edition ! Celebrating experimental, subversive and underground cinema. The full schedule is online, with info and descriptions : http://muff514.com/horaire/
Dates:
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 19:30 to Monday, May 22, 2017 - 15:55
In 1980, Gordon Ball adopted a phrase from the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, "technical sincerity," as a touchstone for his first-person filmmaking. In the next iteration of our regular Salon series, the filmmaker will arrive in San Francisco to show and discuss six films from his body of work that exemplify this mode. This event follows a reading Ball will be doing at the legendary City Lights bookstore from his collection On Tokyo's Edge on Wednesday, May 17 at 7:00 PM.
This program celebrates the publication of Millennium Film Journal No. 65 “Architecture On Screen and Off” with a special screening of works featured in the issue. The title refers to recent moving-image artists’ considerations of the built environment and its connection with character, politics, social norms, class, race and gender.
With the death of Werner Nekes on January 22, 2017, the world of experimental cinema loses one of its great figures whose films have been shown in numerous international festivals and museums.
A tireless activist, Werner Nekes has been involved in a number of activities throughout his career: the production of a considerable number of films, the creation of the Hamburg Film Cooperative, the Filmbüro NW, the International Center for New Cinema, teaching in different universities and art schools, and the creation of one of the world's largest collections of objects related to pre-cinema and optical phenomena.
Fracto 2017 is the first edition of a new annual Experimental Film Festival which will be held on May 20st/21th at ACUD Cinema & Studio. Out of more than 800 submissions a highly international program of 42 works was selected, including a great number of world, international and german premieres. This year's special program (Sat. 21:30h) focuses on the Berlin-based artists Anouk De Clercq, James Edmonds and OJOBOCA (Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzalez) with screenings, a Live Cinema / Dual 16mm Projector Performance and artist talks moderated by our guest from Milan Tommaso Isabella. (Curated by Giuseppe Boccassini, Johannes Braun, Masha Matzke)
Dates:
Saturday, May 20, 2017 - 19:00 to Sunday, May 21, 2017 - 23:55
Sunday, May 21, 2017 - 19:00 to Monday, May 22, 2017 - 23:55
Canyon Cinema travels to Berkeley this week for a special screening of pivotal works from its collection. As a part of Canyon Cinema 50, its celebration of half a century in continuous operation, and together with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s ongoing series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and the Counterculture, 1964-1974, the distributor will co-present Elegy To Ecstasy, an evening of films made by some of the most influential figures in the history of avant-garde cinema.
Dates:
Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 19:00 to Friday, May 12, 2017 - 18:55
