Screenings

  • BLITZ #9: The Uncertain Archive

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    A screening series of film/video artists who subvert the codes of mass-media, oftening appropriating found footage. These works question and rewrite the visual archives that form our perception of authority, gender, space, and history. Curated by Alison Nguyen. Approx. run time: 72 minutes.

    Featured artists: Ololade Adeniyi, Peggy Ahwesh, Bradley Eros, Timothy Geraghty, Scott Kiernan, Brian Murphy, Alison Nguyen, Sabrina Ratté, Lily Jue Sheng, Soda_Jerk, Leslie Thornton, X-PRZ

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    Dates: 

    Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 21:00 to Wednesday, January 31, 2018 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona, Spain
  • Essay Film Festival Prelude 1: The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin and Trying to Kiss the Moon

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    Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image in collaboration with Reading School of Art presentsEssay Film Festival Prelude 1: The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin and Trying to Kiss the Moon

    This screening and discussion provides an introduction to the work of Stephen Dwoskin through his autobiographical montage-film Trying to Kiss the Moon (1994, 95min) and Anna Ambrose’s portrait The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin (1984, 60min),

    Dates: 

    Saturday, February 10, 2018 - 13:00 to 17:30

    Venue: 

    Birkbeck Cinema - London, United Kingdom
  • Xcèntric: The written screen. The films of Michele Fleming

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    Michele Fleming’s films bring together most of the artistic disciplines with which she worked and combine the rhythmic observation of the world around her with references to other films and, most of all, a multitude of books; they feature work with the text on screen, portrayals of bodies and the alternating superimposition of colour and black and white.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 19:30

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  • New Beginnings: Works by Peggy Ahwesh, Sadie Benning, Nina Fonoroff

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    New Beginnings for the New Year features a selection of Sadie Benning’s proto-riot grrl PXLvision cine-confessions, Peggy Ahwesh’s documentary-styled verité melodrama Martina’s Playhouse (1989) and Nina Fonoroff’s The Accursed Mazurka (1994), an epic collage consideration of spiraling mental illness, recovery and identity.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Artists' Television Access - San Francisco, United States
  • Directors Lounge Screening: Clara Bausch - Momentum

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    Observations through the camera combined in different ways create new realities. Clara Bausch, who is born in Berlin and lives here as artist, strictly works with analogue images in her films, installations and photography. She studied Fine Arts at UdK Berlin and is co-founder of Labor Berlin. It is the ordinary, simple things in life that capture her attention. And it is the combinations of impressions, occurrences and images that create reality. The new realities that Clara Bausch creates in her art work are by no means out of this world.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 21:00 to Friday, January 26, 2018 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Z-Bar, Berlin - Berlin, Germany
  • Back to the POSTFUTURE

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    Back to the POSTFUTURE” is the new exhibition organized by the Venetian organization Zuecca Projects at Spazio Ridotto, Venice, and curated by ADAF – Athens Digital Art Festival and the PhotoPhore.

    The opening is on January 19, and the show will run until February 16, 2018.

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 19, 2018 - 18:00 to Saturday, February 17, 2018 - 17:55

    Venue: 

    Spazio Ridotto - Venezia, Italy
  • BLITZ #8: Burn

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    A programme curated by Alison Nguyen

    A screening series of film and video artists who employ modes of appropriation, dematerialization, and electronic signal manipulation in their moving image works. These pieces subvert the visual codes of mass media, repositioning material such as commercials, pornography, and Hollywood films. In burning contemporary archives, these artists create new texts that challenge our way of seeing dominant social constructs.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, January 20, 2018 - 19:00 to Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona, Spain
  • Reinscriptions for Line Describing A Cone

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    Part of a series of works collectively referred to as solid light films, Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone sees the fog-thickened beam of a 16mm projector transformed into a three-dimensional moving sculpture. As the beam is viewed from various vantage points within the space it transforms, shifts, and demands attentive observation.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, January 20, 2018 - 15:00 to Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 14:55

    Venue: 

    Exploratorium - San Francisco, United States
  • The Women’s Film Preservation Fund: Four Experimental Films

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    The Museum of Modern Art will present The Women’s Film Preservation Fund: Four Experimental Films January 22nd at 7:15pm in its annual festival, To Save and Project. The films by Peggy Ahwesh, Barbara Hammer, Victoria Hochberg, and Sheila Paige were all recently preserved by The Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television.

    Dates: 

    Monday, January 22, 2018 - 19:15

    Venue: 

    MoMA New York - , United States
  • Xcèntric: Sistiaga + El Petit de Cal Eril

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    Opening of the 2018 season with the screening of the film Ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren by the Basque artist Jose Antonio Sistiaga and a live performance by El Petit de Cal Eril..

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 19:30

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