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Peter Gidal - Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966–2016
This collection of essays by Peter Gidal includes “Theory and Definition of Structural/Materialist Film” and other texts on metaphor, narrative, and against sexual representation. Also discussed in their specificity are works by Samuel Beckett, Thérèse Oulton, Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol. Throughout, Gidal’s writing attempts a political aesthetics, polemical as well as theoretical. One of the foremost experimental film-makers in Britain since the late 1960s, Peter Gidal was a central figure at the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative, and taught advanced film theory at the Royal College of Art. His previous books include Andy Warhol: Films and Paintings (1971), Understanding Beckett (1986) and Materialist Film (1989).

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Film as Film: Theory and Practice in the Work of Gregory J. Markopoulos

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 16/03/2015 - 18:13

Film as Film: Theory and Practice in the Work of Gregory J. MarkopoulosSymposium & ScreeningsBasel, 23 & 24 April 2015

Basel University, eikones Forum and Stadkino Basel will host Film as Film: Theory and Practice in the Work of Gregory J. Markopoulos on 23 & 24 April 2015. This symposium and screening series is the first of its kind to be focused on Markopoulos, and will bring together many of the most knowledgeable individuals interested in his work. This event is open to the public.

The Greek-American filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928–1992) was one of the key figures in the development of postwar avant-garde film, and a co-founder of the New American Cinema Group. In his exquisitely stylized and dreamlike early films, and in the stunning works of the sixties and seventies, Markopoulos formulated a maverick aesthetic characterized by incomparable formal rigor, fascinating beauty, and the penetrating representation of interior worlds that emerge from the entwinement of image and sound into an ecstatic filmic language.

Fechas:
Jueves, Abril 23, 2015 (Todo el día)
Viernes, Abril 24, 2015 (Todo el día)
Local:
Basel Stadtkino - Basel, Suiza
L’Âge d’or 2014

By Marcos Ortega on Vie, 03/10/2014 - 04:29

El festival belga de cine experimental L’Âge d’or 'regresa' a Bruselas los próximos días 8 a 14 de octubre. 'Reviviendo el espíritu' del festival EXPRMNTL, este presentaría un total de veintitré filmes en competición, así como programas dedicados a, y con la presencia de Birgit Hein (presidenta del jurado), Gustav Deutsch (quién además realizará una masterclass), Friedl vom Gröller, Matthias Müller y Christoph Girardet, Robert Todd y John Smith. Mark Webber, editor de la recientemente publicada antología de escritos de Gregory Markopoulos presentará dos programas de sus obras con nuevas copias. El festival también rendirá homenaje a Stephen Dwoskin y Adolfas Mekas, y presentará secciones dedicadas a la Vanguardia Italiana y una doble selección de “poemas etnográficos”, con obras de Raymonde Carasco y Robert Gardner.

El catálogo del festival, incluyendo su programa completo, puede descargarse aquí.

Fechas:
Miércoles, Octubre 8, 2014 (Todo el día)
Jueves, Octubre 9, 2014 (Todo el día)
Viernes, Octubre 10, 2014 (Todo el día)
Sábado, Octubre 11, 2014 (Todo el día)
Domingo, Octubre 12, 2014 (Todo el día)
Lunes, Octubre 13, 2014 (Todo el día)
Martes, Octubre 14, 2014 (Todo el día)
Local:
Bozar Cinema (Centre For Fine Arts) - Bruxelles, Bélgica
Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos
Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos contains some ninety out-of-print or previously unavailable articles by the Greek-American filmmaker who, as a contemporary of Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol, was at the forefront of a movement that established a truly independent form of cinema. Beginning with his early writings on the American avant-garde and auteurs such as Dreyer, Bresson and Mizoguchi, it also features numerous essays on Markopoulos’ own practice, and on films by Robert Beavers, that were circulated only in journals, self-published editions or programme notes. The texts become increasingly metaphysical and poetic as the filmmaker pursued his ideal of Temenos, an archive and screening space to be located at a remote site in the Peloponnese where his epic final work could be viewed in harmony with the Greek landscape. Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-1992) is a unique figure in film history, whose life’s work stands in testament to his strength of vision and commitment to the medium.

Edited by Mark Webber, with a foreword by P. Adams Sitney

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Peter Kubelka presents Monument Film

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 13/03/2013 - 16:04
Peter Kubelka presents Monument Film
Tuesday April 9 2013, 18:30h
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1 8XT London

The Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka has been a vital and uncompromising force in cinema for more than half a century. In a body of work that lasts not much more than an hour in total, he condenses and articulates the essential qualities of analogue cinema, distinguishing film as an autonomous artform. His 1960 film Arnulf Rainer, composed only of the purest elements of light and darkness, sound and silence, remains one of the most radical achievements in film history. In response to that earlier work, his new film Antiphon was revealed in 2012 as part of Monument Film, a powerful testament to the entire medium. With two 35mm projectors situated in the auditorium, each film is screened individually, then combined as double projections, both side-by-side and superimposed upon each other. Throughout this extraordinary projection event, Peter Kubelka will discuss his theories, explaining the differences between film and digital media, and articulating his belief in the survival of cinema.

Monument Film
Lecture screening with double 35mm projection
Peter Kubelka | Austria 1960/2012 | c.90 min

Curated by Mark Webber. Presented with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.

Tickets: £11 / £8.50 concessions (BFI Members pay £1.50 less)

This performance was originally scheduled for the 56th BFI London Film Festival last October. Audience members with tickets for the original event should contact the BFI Box Office on 020 7928 3232 for an exchange.
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Underground New York

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 30/11/2009 - 03:09
Underground New York
New York Gershwin Hotel
Sunday 6 December 2009

In the 1960s, filmmakers investigated new forms of production in dialogue with radical shifts in art, music, performance and popular culture. Following the example of the Beats, the counterculture was alive with protest, freedom of expression and the breaking of taboos, and from the Film-Makers’ Coop to Andy Warhol’s Factory, portable 16mm cameras were bringing a whole new way of seeing to the cinema screen. These heady days of “underground film” were captured by Gideon Bachmann in a spirited broadcast for German television. Rarely seen today, it is one of the few surviving documents to show aspects of New York’s independent film culture during this exhilarating period.
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