Screenings

  • Concrete Happenings: Reading Fluxus Films

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    A hands-on workshop on artists' books precedes a screening of word-based films by George Maciunas, James Riddle, Paul Sharits, Dick Higgins, and Hollis Frampton, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Concrete Poetry, Concrete Book at the Special Collections Research Center. A panel discussion featuring Bruce Jenkins (SAIC), Caroline Schopp (UChicago), Lisa Zaher (UChicago), and Jacob Proctor (Neubauer Collegium) follows the screening.

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 20, 2017 - 16:00 to Saturday, January 21, 2017 - 15:55

    Venue: 

    BING Art Books - Chicago, United States
  • Bozar Cinema: Norio Imai - Film and Video Works

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    Norio Imai: Film and Video Works
    Time Severed, Jointed and Stretched

    As the closing event of the exhibition A Feverish Era in Japanese Art. Expressionism in the 1950's and 1960's, this screening / talk focuses on a pioneering voice that led the next generation of Japanese contemporary art. As Gutai’s youngest member, Norio Imai’s white relief sculptures might be familiar, but his works involving film, slides and video have received very little attention. 

    Dates: 

    Sunday, January 22, 2017 - 18:00 to Monday, January 23, 2017 - 17:55

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  • VISIONS | 19.01.17 | Melanie Shatzky + Brian M. Cassidy : The Patron Saints

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    VISIONS, in collaboration with la lumière collective, presents: Melanie Shatzky + Brian M. Cassidy [Filmmakers present]

    The Patron Saints (2011, HD, 71 min, English)

    Bold and unremitting in its depiction of the elderly, The Patron Saints eschews our hyper-individualistic culture obsessed with youth. Taking a head-on approach, husband-and-wife duo Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky peer with fly-on-the-wall access into the beige, featureless corridors of a nursing home, presenting an uneasy yet impactful 'portrait of fading bodies and minds.' Forgoing conventional documentary modes for a poetic treatment of the aging, the residents here, shot over the course of five years, are captured with a disconcerting deadpan realism—candid depictions not unlike Larry Clark’s bruising sexually active teenagers in Kids (1995).

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 19, 2017 - 20:00 to Friday, January 20, 2017 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    la lumière collective - Montréal, Canada
  • Visual Sunday - The Screening Room goes Cavia

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    As part of The Screening Room, three experimental filmmakers will show their work this afternoon in Cavia. Angus Carter, Ronald Blazkowicz and Luca Dazi will present 12 short cutting edge experimental/video art films.

    Angus Carter (USA) / Ronald Blazkowicz (NL) / Luca Dazi (IT), digital

    The Screening Room is an art channel on Salto TV, Saturdays from 9 till 10 pm.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, January 29, 2017 - 15:00 to Monday, January 30, 2017 - 14:55

    Venue: 

    Filmhuis Cavia - Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • MuMaBoX #52: Cinematographic Mechanics

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    Mechanics are at the heart of the cinematographic system, and also a motif dear to experimental filmmakers.

    Programme:
    - Kipho (Guido Seeber, 1925, 6’)
    - Footprints (Bill Morrison, 1992, 6’)
    - La Marche des machines (Eugène Deslaw, 1928, 9’)
    - Oil Wells: Sturgeon road & 97th street (Christina Battle, 2002, 3’)
    - Windmill 2 (Chris Welsby, 1972, 8’)
    - Rode molen (Esther Urlus, 2013, 5’)
    - Couleurs mécaniques (Rose Lowder, 1979, 16’)

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - 18:00 to Thursday, January 19, 2017 - 17:55

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  • A Light Shines Through

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    At Untitled, San Francisco, curators Ashley Carr and Suzanne Modica present a video program called A Light Shines Through, featuring video work by artists including Andrea Bowers, Barbara Hammer, William E. Jones, Korpys/Löffler, Lars Laumann, Maggie Lee, Goshka Macuga, Melvin Moti, Mario Pfeifer, Martha Rosler, Tobias Spichtig, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Judi Werthein.

    The last few years have seen worldwide upheaval, with conflicts over politics, economics, religion, race, sexual identity and social issues roiling our communities. In moments like this, when our environment feels tenuous, or even threatening, it is more important than ever that artists create work that responds to these conditions. With this in mind, we are presenting a diverse selection of videos primarily from the last decade that touch upon immigration, global and local economies, the war on terror, and personal loss, among other themes. 

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 12, 2017 (All day) to Sunday, January 15, 2017 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Untitled San Francisco - San Francisco, United States
  • Walter Ruttman, Symphony of a Great City

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    Ciné concert

    Produced in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Big City is considered one of the most iconic urban symphonies of late-1920s European avant-garde cinema. Reflecting the thinking of Futurism, Walter Ruttmann painted the portrait of the German city during one day, from dawn to dusk. The era of industrialisation was at its peak; urban modernism had become a fashion. The "city symphony" became a fully-fledged film genre, whose characters were the railway, the dance of the trams, the magic of electricity and the roar of automobiles. From this rapidly-developing city arose a resounding combination of new sounds, now given a new dimension by musicians Simon Fisher Turner, Klara Lewis and Rainier Lericolais through a contemporary sound and musical creation.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, January 14, 2017 - 20:00 to Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
  • Xcèntric: Spaces for creation. Manon de Boer

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    In her films, Manon de Boer explores the way in which memory is activated and how she renders it visible by means of the artistic process. Her portraits are introspective narratives in which the image and sound tracks are sensible surfaces that record the pleasure of filming the other, and music and words are regarded as sensorial experiences. This session shows her work by means of four of her most important films, including the presentation of her latest.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 18:30

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  • Bozar Cinema: Funérailles. De l’Art de Mourir - Boris Lehman

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    “Having reached an age at which you think about getting your bags ready for the next world, I’m about to burn my life, to throw away all I’ve collected and accumulated for over half a century. Books, clothes, films, everything must, will disappear, in ashes and smoke. Funeral (on the art of dying) presents itself as the ‘last’ episode of my auto-cine-biographic work Babel, which covers over thirty years of my life. Funeral will bring this narration of life to its end. It can be considered as my last movie, as a will.” (Boris Lehman)

    Dates: 

    Saturday, January 14, 2017 - 20:00 to Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 19:55

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  • Saul Levine: Radical Correspondent

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    Saul Levine is one of the leading figures in the autobiographical tradition within underground cinema. His films are often marked by a direct confrontation with the fragile material of 8mm, and the resulting works bear the marks of his construction, splices appearing like indentions in concrete.

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 27, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Polish Combatants Hall - Toronto, Canada

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