Book presentation and screening of the films Essais & Instants with Hannes Schüpbach. November 16th, Metropolis, Kinemathek HamburgExperimental films with book presentation: Hannes SchüpbachWith guests and conversation
Rouzbeh Rashidi's latest feature film, "Elpis" (2023), will have its German premiere at the 7th Berlin Revolution Film Festival in Berlin on Sunday, October 22, 2023, at 9 PM.
The screening will take place at the iconic Kino Moviemento in Kreuzberg, Berlin, showcasing a pristine 4K DCP format. Following the screening, a Q&A session will be conducted with Rouzbeh Rashidi, as well as the cast and crew.
For nearly 50 years, the Bay Area filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin has been an inspiring figure in contemporary media arts. His acerbic, densely-packed found footage films have traveled the globe, encouraging scores of nascent collage-essayists, culture jammers, and mockumentarians to action. A welcoming presence and steadfast fixture of San Francisco’s Mission District, Baldwin has been holding it down at 992 Valencia Street for decades, in defiance of sweeping gentrification, presenting his Other Cinema microcinema screenings in its street-level storefront theater while maintaining his legendary film archive/hoarder cave/work studio in the building’s basement. Ever seeking to revise and hybridize existing modes and genres, and invent and name new ones, Baldwin’s filmmaking amalgamates cinephilic literacy and voraciousness, a sharp understanding of political and cultural history, and a sly critical polemics.
At dawn, Jen Casad digs for clams on a coastal mudflat in Maine. At dusk, on that same mudflat, with the same low tide, she digs for clams again. In just two static shots, multimedia artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart captures not just the hard work of clam digging, but also everything about the environment surrounding it that words could not express.
