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  • MuMaBoX #56: Intelligence of the Signal

    Meeting with Bidhan Jacobs

    The signal is the very essence of sound and the digital image: of the material information invisible to the naked eye, codified and circulating through the filmic technologies of the age of the Net. Its access, of capital importance, is in protected mode (Friedrich Kittler).

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, May 17, 2017 - 18:00 to Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 17:55

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  • Canyon Cinema 50: Technical Sincerity with Gordon Ball

    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.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    New Nothing Cinema - San Francisco, United States
  • Scratch: Homage to Werner Nekes

    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.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    Studio des Ursulines - Paris, France
  • FRACTO BERLIN Experimental Film Festival

    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

    Venue: 

    ACUD Berlin - Berlin , Alemania

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