Screenings

  • Light Movement 23: OPEN DOORS curated by Ute Aurand (Berlin) and Peter Todd (London)

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    Every year or two Ute Aurand and Peter Todd meet up to continue a filmic conversation. OPEN DOORS is their third program curated together. A film by the Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait is often shown as a reference to how Aurand and Todd's joint interest in her work fIrst brought them together. In OPEN DOORS they have selected films in which the filmmakers' observations and feelings become visible beyond obvious narratives.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 20:00 to Monday, July 24, 2017 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    SPEKTRUM - Berlin, Germany
  • Cineinfinito #20: Theo Thiesmeier

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    Theo Thiesmeier Films 1983 - 1995In the presence of the artist.

    Theo Thiesmeier was born in 1962 in Bochum, Germany. He studied film at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, M. between 1983-89 with Peter Kubelka and four semesters of photography with Herbert Schwöbel. He completed his film studies in 1990 at the Cooper Union in New York with Robert Breer and P. Adams Sitney while working at Anthology Film Archives with Jonas Mekas. In 1997 he founded in Berlin, together with Ute Aurand and Renate Sami, the filmSamstag, later joined by Milena Gierke, Johannes Beringer, Bärbel Freund and Karl Heil until 2007.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 18:30

    Venue: 

    Filmoteca de Cantabria - Santander, Spain
  • VISIONS | 12.07.17 + 13.03.17 | Clint Enns: The Lo-Fi Mixtape + If You're Seeing This, It's Too Late

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    VISIONS, in collaboration with la lumière collective, presentsCLINT ENNS: THE LO-FI MIXTAPE + IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS, IT'S TOO LATEFilmmaker Present | Digital Projection

    Clint Enns is a visual artist living in Toronto, Ontario. His work primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown both nationally and internationally at galleries, festivals, alternative spaces and microcinemas.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 20:00 to Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 19:55
    Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 20:00 to Friday, July 14, 2017 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    la lumière collective - Montréal, Canada
  • Early Monthly Segments #98: Abigail Child & Julie Murray

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    Celebrate the heat of July with classics by two of the sharpest editors in the experimental scenes in the USA. Abigail Child’s heady Is This What You Were Born For? series (from which we’re showing four films) took the Eighties by storm creating “found” footage collages of sultry noir seduction—turning erotic desires on its head.

    Dates: 

    Monday, July 24, 2017 - 20:00 to Tuesday, July 25, 2017 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Gladstone Hotel - Toronto, Canada
  • Cineinfinito #19: MM Serra

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    Programme:- Eye Etc (1982,16mm, color, silent, 4')Filmed on vacation in Hawaii, the shots explore the light, colors and sensuous movement of the Hawaiian culture.

    Five Films (1984-87):MM Serra’s FIVE FILMS embody a (...) Do-It-Yourself Lower East Side spirit, but introduces a distinctive dimension of lyrical eroticism. Taken together these (...) films demonstrate both the unbounded energy that animated the downtown NYC underground film scene in these years (...) — Anthology Film Archives, 2016

    Dates: 

    Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 18:00 to Friday, July 28, 2017 - 17:55

    Venue: 

    Filmoteca de Cantabria - Santander, Spain
  • Ko Nakajima: Mt. Fuji

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    Microscope Gallery is extremely pleased to present as the final night in a two-part series of works by the Japanese video and computer animation pioneer Ko Nakajima the full 90-minute version of his most well known work “Mt. Fuji”, made in 1984. While the 20-minute version has previously screened in the US – including in the 1986 program “New Video: Japan” as part of “Close Up of Japan, New York 1985-86” at the Museum of Modern Art and the subsequent traveling program, among others – the original version of the work has rarely, if ever, been shown in the US. A 7-minute long “short version” also exists.

    Dates: 

    Monday, July 17, 2017 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Microscope Gallery - New York, United States
  • Cineinfinito #18: Edward Owens

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    In the mid 1960s, Edward Owens was an African-American teenager attending the Art Institute of Chicago when Gregory Markopoulos arrived to found the school’s film program. Owens, who was then studying painting and sculpture, had already been making 8mm movies for a few years; impressed by the maturity of his work, Markopoulos encouraged him to move to New York. Owens arrived in Manhattan in 1966 with Markopoulos, who quickly ushered him into the world of the city’s cultured demimonde, introducing him to figures like Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga, Marie Menken, Gregory Battcock, and filmmaker-poet Charles Boultenhouse. Soon, Owens became romantically involved with Boultenhouse, and moved into the West Village apartment where Boultenhouse already lived with his lover of many decades, the legendary critic Parker Tyler, who accepted the arrangement.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 16:30

    Venue: 

    Filmoteca de Cantabria - Santander, Spain
  • Summer of Love Experiments: Perceptual Expansion

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    The Summer of Love. Los Angeles Filmforum commemorates the 50th anniversary of the radical cultural upheaval with an assortment of mind-blowing (as intended) short underground films. These films used a variety of tactics to manifest or assist with perceptual expansion and experience found in sex, drugs, music, and art.  Some pursue idea of psychedelia (Third Eye Butterfly; Doppler Effect: Version II) others express openness in sexuality (Fuses); and others try to capture some of the spirit of group revelry, drug-taking and celebration (Letter to D.H.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, July 16, 2017 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian - Los Angeles, United States
  • Zero to Twenty and back to Zero: “Zero” a feature 16mm film by James Fotopoulos

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    Microscope is excited to present a screening of James Fotopoulos’ first feature film ‘’Zero” in its original format on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, introduced by Bradley Eros who along with Brian Frye presented the work in its first “real screening” in the US on November 21, 2000 at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (RBMC), which took place  the Lower East Side space Collective Unconscious.

    Dates: 

    Friday, July 14, 2017 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Microscope Gallery - New York, United States
  • Canyon Cinema 50: Love, Light & Lyrical Eroticism

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    1967 was the year that the Canyon Cinema Co-op was born in San Francisco. Formed as a  distribution cooperative for films made by members, it grew out of the itinerant Canyon Cinema formed a few years earlier by a loose association of Bay Area artist-filmmakers. The Canyon Co-Op was the west coast’s contribution to a growing international network for showing and seeing films that fell outside the bounds of polite manners, censors’ approval, and art-world decorum.

    Dates: 

    Friday, July 14, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    de Young Museum - San Francisco, United States

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