Noticias generales

  • Experimental Conversations nómero de Verano

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    Acaba de ser publicado el nuevo número de la revista digital Experimental Conversations. El especial de verano viene cargado de interesantes artículos como los dedicados a Hollis Frampton, el film de Alan Lambert Ouroboros, y una crítica del pasado festival Márgenes 2009.

     

    Articles:
    - Editorial
    - Hollis Frampton: Words & Pictures by Matt Packer
    - Impressions of 'Ouroboros' by Maximilian Le Cain
    - The Cards Are Laid Out by Peter Murray
    - Video, Landscape and the Politics & Poetics of Place in Ireland by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
    - Cache by Phillina Sun

    Reviews:
    - Cinema Now Wants A Body Or The Politics Of The Red Carpet
    - In Search of Utopia
    - Margenes '09

  • Antoni Muntadas recibe el premio Velázquez

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    Antoni Muntadas - The Board Room (Boston, 1987)Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) ha ganado el Premio Velázquez, otorgado por el Ministerio de Cultura español por 'su trabajo como pinero en el videoarte español  sus investigaciones conceptiuales osbre los mecanismos del poder y de la realidad construída por los medios de masas'. Muntadas , Que vive en Nueva York desde 1971 es un artista multimedia que usa la fotogrfía, el vídeo, publicaciones, internet o instalaciones mixtas para abordar temas sociales, políticos y comunicativos.

    Muntadas ha recibido diversos premios y becas como los de la Fundación Guggenheim, la Fundación Rockefeller, el National Endowment for the Arts, el New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Electronica en Linz/Austria, Laser d'Or en Locarno/Suiza y el Premi Nacional d'Arts Plastiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Actualmente enseña en el Programa de Artes Visuales del MIT Boston.

  • Ubuweb publica la colección de audio de AFA

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    Anthology Film Archives logoUbuweb, en colaboración con Anthology Film Archives, alojará ficheros mp3 con el contenido de más de 1000 cintas de la colección de audio de Anthology. Estas incluyen entrevistas a los cineastas, conferencias, sesiones de ruegos y preguntas postproyección, etc... algunas de ellas de hace más de 50 años (hasta la clásica sesión 'Poetry and the film' realizada en el Cinema 16 de Amos Vogel). El primer lote ya ha sido publicado e incluye:

    - P. Adams Sitney entrevista a Kenneth Anger en el "Arts Forum" de WNYC (1972)
    - Charles Levine entevista a Robert Breer (July 1970)
    - Jonas Mekas entrevista a Emile De Antonio (11/06/1969)
    - Poetry And The Film: Amos Vogel, Maya Deren, Parker Tyler, Willard Maas & Dylan Thomas Sesiones 1 & 2 en Cinema 16
    - P. Adams Sitney entrevista a Sidney Peterson en el "Arts Forum" de WNYC (1976)    
    - Annette Michelson entrevista a Yvonne Rainer en el "Arts Forum" de WNYC (01/25/1974)
    - Pauline Kael y Stan Brakhage (1964?)
    - Robert Haller entrevista a Carolee Schneemann (11/30/1973)
    - Hollis Frampton en la Universidad de Binghampton, Partes 1 & 2 (03/11/1972)
    - Ken Jacobs, Larry Gottheim, Stan Brakhage: Binghampton Council Of Churches (11/23/1970)
    - Harry Smith entrevistado por P. Adams Sitney (1965)

    Ubuweb también aloja una selección de artículos de la clásica revista Film Culture, incluyendo textos fundamentales de Parker Tyler, Rudolf Arnheim, Jerome Hill, Ron Rice, Taylor Mead...

  • CVM recibe subvención para la conservación

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    cvm_logoEl Center for Visual Music ha recibido la prestigiosa subvención Avant-Garde Masters para la conservación de los tres rollos de los expermientos en 35 mm de Oskar Fischinger en su serie de performances con multiproyección  'Raumlichtkunst' de los años 20. Financiada por la Film Foundation y gestionada por la National Film Preservation Foundation, este programa está dedicado a fomentar la salvación de obras significativas en el desarrollo de la vanguardia de EEUU. La Film Foundation es una organización no lucrativa fundada en 1990 por Martin Scorsese, dedicada a la protección y salvaguardia de la historia del cine.

  • Afterimages

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    lux_logoLux no sólo ha rediseñado su tienda online para darle plena funcionalidad, sino que además nos ha dado una gran sorpresa: Los DVDs del sello Afterimages, sólo disponibles para adquisición por bibliotecas e instituciones, están disponibles ahora para su venta al público. los cuatro títulos que han sido lanzados hasta el momento están dedicados a selecciones de filmes por Malcom Le Grice, Peter Gidal, Vivienne Dick y Lis Rhodes, todos ellos disponibles por 20 libras c/u.

  • Red Avocado

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    Red Avocado logoAcaba de nacer un nuevo sello DVD europeo. Red Avocado ("Films as rare as red avocados" - "Filmes tan raros como aguacates rojos") producirá y distribuirá filmes experimentales y de vanguardia editados en DVD. Los primeros títulos planificados (hasta ahora sólo disponibles para reserva) incluyen la obras de Paul Winkler, Bastian Clevé, Ingo Petzke y Christoph Janetzko.

  • Film-Makers' Cooperative to be evicted

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    film_coop_logoDear Friends and Members of the Film-Makers' Cooperative:

    Since December 2000 our office has been located in a New York City government space, the "Clocktower Gallery".  It has been a safe and convenient location.  The FMC had a lease with MoMA/PS.1 on a month to month basis.  MoMA is terminating its lease and the FMC's sublease will terminate with it.  Alanna Heiss (former P.S. 1 Director ) is negotiating a new lease with the city through the Dept. of Cultural Affairs.  Although the floor plans she had submitted to the city for her new organization, Art Radio International, (that originally included the FMC) Heiss has decided there is no room for the FMC anymore. 
    Upon further negotiation with Art Radio International we have been refused a sublease.  We have received an eviction notice and are trying to appeal to the Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Kate D. Levin to support our efforts to remain either in our current building or to move to another, affordable city space. You can write to Kate D. Levin directly at

    http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/maildcla.html

    The more letters that are received on our behalf, the better!

    Of course, we are working with legal consul. The FMC Board of Directors, and M.M. Serra  will continue to keep you informed. Any questions you have, please call the FMC office at 212-267-5665.

    This message was sent by: Film Coop, 108 Leonard Street, 13 floor, New York, New York 10013

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  • FFF 2009 Experimental Selections Announced

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    The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce its official program of experimental films for 2009. Congratulations to our outstanding group of moviemakers.

    Winner Best Experimental Film:

    * Themes + Variations for the Naked Eye (Caitlin Horsmon, Kansas City, Missouri)

    Honorable Mention:

    * Double Thunder (Potter-Bellmar Labs, San Antonio, Texas)

    Official Selections:

    * Automatic (Sharon Mooney, Chicago, Illinois)
    * 4 Minutes on an Abandoned Bridge (Todd Tinkham, Durham, North Carolina)
    * Random Access Memory (Gavin Rehder, Fargo, North Dakota)

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  • Tank tv : Alexander Heim

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    Alexander Heim
    on www.tank.tv
    1st - 15th February 2009

    tank.tv is pleased to present a selection of work from Alexander Heim including: Costa, Three Seasons, Untitled (Dog), Grand Walk and Matalan.

    “(Heim’s) new film Costa (2008) tracks the daily activities of pigeons at a busy coffee shop, following one bird scratching about the feet of commuters, another skittering across a marble floor and a third bracing itself against the wind in a concrete ledge, solemn as an eagle. With painstaking care they hunt for the scraps between glinting metal chairs, clamber up gigantic steps and outwit oblivious shows. The look faintly ludicrous but supremely resourceful. The birds perspective translates familiar surrounding into foreign territory; a station concourse gleams like an immense frozen lake, its menacing cashpoint the mouth to hell; the complicated shadow of a railing is not a reminder of an environment shaped by caring human hands but a welcome rush-hour haven. In a city planned with no thought of pigeons as its users, these benighted tacticians are transcendent.
    The films visual incongruity is heightened by its score of keys clinking on a table, the running of water, a hair-dryer blasting and the spray of perfume. Heim has used this kind of aural dislocation before, setting his film of swans on London’s Regent Canal to techno music (Grand Walk, 2005) and applying a gloriously lush soundtrack to a stray’s encounter with busy traffic in China (Untitled (Dog), 2006). The technique works by emphasizing the human characteristics of these animals; here, for instance, the deftness of a bird picking its way along a wall is captured by the sound of teeth being neatly brushed. It demands a kind of internal re-tuning, since sounds transposed in this way seem both more expansive and more penetrating. Heard in a new context, the efficient noises of a woman preparing to go out are as curious as the world viewed at pavement level. (..)
    Heim strips away the literalness of everyday life, revealing the mysteries contained in the most commonplace. It is no coincidence that he selects the least loved of all birds to be the focus of this lyrical inquiry. The ubiquitous pigeon is emblematic of those inconsequential things that surround us, the routine stuff that so often goes unexamined. the result is no dour pronouncement by the artist on the fate of the dispossessed but a witty celebration of existence on the margins. The birds come across not as pitiable outcasts but as profound seekers after truth; driven by some internal compass they make their own way in the city, discovering their own paths, becoming poets of their own acts.”
    - Kate Forde, Frieze, November 2008.

    Alexander Heim studied at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Hamburg, gaining a diploma in fine art in 2004, before completing an MFA at Goldsmiths College, London in 2006. Recent exhibitions include: ‘Doves’ at doggerfisher, Edinburgh; Feeling gave way to structure, The approach E2, London; Nought to Sixty, ICA, London and Drei Jahreszeiten

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