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On Resistance: International Avant-Garde Films & Videos

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 05/01/2017 - 03:38

This international program brings together archival prints of forgotten films never shown in New York before and new countercurrent voices. Avant-garde artists Don Levy, Philippe Cote, and Ute Aurand share the screen with a new generation of makers whose works explore and embody exemplary fights for different forms of freedom. “On Resistance” includes a World premiere, five North American, two U.S., and four New York premieres, from fifteen different countries.

Introduced by guest curator Mónica Savirón

Dates:
Friday, January 13, 2017 - 19:30
Venue:
Museum of the Moving Image - New York, United States
OFFoff Cinema: Moldy and infected

By Günter Hilderson on Tue, 22/11/2016 - 15:13

In 1927, Jan Cornelis Mol, who was then director of the Fruitveiling, made "From the realm of crystal", an early example of the use of time-lapse photography in film. Using microscope and macro lens Mol makes a stunning film that shows the biological and chemical crystals. This work was picked up by the avant-garde artists who saw this film as the example of the absolute film. In the famous Studio 24 in Paris the work was even shown as an expanded work with three projectors!
Dates:
Monday, November 28, 2016 - 20:00 to Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 19:55
Venue:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica
Balagan presents... Formal Subversions: Films from Cologne, Germany

By Anonymous on Sun, 04/09/2016 - 15:17

Buoyed in part by the Academy of Media Arts (Kunsthochschule für Medien, or KHM), Cologne has become an epicenter of experimental film and video within Germany. This program, organized in collaboration with Cologne-based filmmakers Lina Sieckmann and Miriam Gossing, presents nine works from the Cologne/Bonn region viewed through the lens of “formal subversion”. All included works somehow undermine basic elements of their form, structure, or the medium itself to reveal unforeseen creative potentials .
Dates:
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 19:00 to Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 18:55
Venue:
Coolidge Corner Theatre - Brookline, United States
Zelluloid: Film ohne Kamera = cameraless film

Schlicht E, Hollein M. 2010. Zelluloid: Film ohne Kamera = cameraless film. :190pp.
AVANT 2014: Found and Excavated

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 25/08/2014 - 11:57

The theme of the 11th edition of AVANT is Found and Excavated. Films, videos and live performances based on re-edited found footage, or films that have been going through processes of decay and destruction, film that is in constant transformation, aesthetically or politically.

Friday evening begins with a selection of films by the German collective Schmelzdahin and continues with a live performance of the film Materia Obscura, made by the film alchemist and former Schmelzdahin member Jürgen Reble and with live music by the multimedia artist Thomas Köner.

Saturday opens with four films by Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet who have excavated new stories from well-known movies by re-editing and assembling them anew. After this follows a complete retrospective of the films by Schmelzdahin and a screening of Wolfgang Lehmann’s one hour long intense flickering journey into the fantastic world of nature documentaries. Saturday concludes with two programmes: The Spanish artist Maria Cañas’ political collages and a unique program with Soviet and Russian found footage film, curated by Masha Godovannaya.

Dates:
Friday, September 26, 2014 (All day)
Saturday, September 27, 2014 (All day)