The motif of the loop, or more precisely repetition with variations, is one of the formal and thematic principles recurrent in experimental cinema, one of its major functions being to defamiliarize the gaze in a strange paradox. This selection of films offers an overview of different techniques and conceptual variations of this fascinating and troubling motif.
Amy Dickson and Jamie Jenkinson have both made substantial series of video works with mobile phones, usually with single takes that suggest an intuitive and spontaneous approach to shooting - a mode which they consider intrinsic to their medium. They resist reshooting and post-production. Hence their work foregrounds and promotes the act of looking, embracing a certain amount of wandering and the potential for 'errors'.
She Tales is a collective screening from both past and present female members of LaborBerlin. The wide spectrum of analogue methodologies in this non-thematic screening reflects the diverse constellations of conceptual and aesthetic pursuits of filmmakerin working at LaborBerlin.
Programme:- Bilderbuch (Luisa Greenfield 3 min, 16mm, live sound, 2017)On the value of scraps - A live lecture performance on Walter Benjamin's children's chronicle in 3 minutes.
Dates:
Friday, June 30, 2017 - 20:00 to Saturday, July 1, 2017 - 19:55
06.07.17 + 07.07.17 | Brett Kashmere[plus films by Nathaniel Dorsky + Robert Breer + Nam June Paik + Lillian Schwartz + Takashi Ito + Yvonne Rainer + Will Hindle]
Nicky Hamlyn and Neil Henderson both make observational films that are most obviously documentaries when they focus on sites that are fast disappearing. Hamlyn's Gasometers 4 is part of a series of films recording the dismantling of gas holders in North London, while Henderson's Grain Tower centres on a giant power station chimney that has recently been demolished.
Rattis Books is pleased to present a night of Expanded Cinema performance of Tyburnia by James Holcombe, Dead Rat Orchestra and Lisa Knapp, launching the Tyburnia 2017 tour across Britain from the 14th July to the 5th August 2017.
Dates:
Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 21:00 to Friday, July 14, 2017 - 20:55
AXW Screening: Replay From GreenpointCurated By Lili White
Programme:- New World (Judy Rifka, 1.22)New World is a photomontage of numerous favorite clips. The showstopper, the brand intro to 1930’s Worldwide Production. Continuing the global theme with Spheres from Space Series sequences from collaborations with Daniel Dibble. I juxtaposed outtakes from the various sequences, by lining them up and screen shooting, superimposed onto a Photoshopped digital 3D effect image. If postmodern is said to be a fantasy, this would be it.
Dates:
Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - 18:00 to Thursday, July 6, 2017 - 17:55
