Screenings

  • Troubling the Image: Color My World

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    The five-program series "Troubling the Image: New + Restored Experimental Cinema" features an eclectic and wide-ranging group of works that celebrate the vibrancy of experimental and almost-experimental cinema from near and far, now and then.

    Focused on art, design, and photography, with the use of color as a unifying element, this program includes a striking selection of abstract and representational works. Joseph Cornell’s celebrated found-footage film Rose Hobart (1936) serves as a center around which circulates David Rimmer’s eye-popping Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (1970), T. Marie’s gorgeous minimalist video series Panchromes I, II, III (2014), Janie Geiser’s photo-collaged Flowers of the Sky (2016), William E. Jones’ appropriated images of labor and workers on foreign currency in Model Workers (2014), and Amit Dutta’s riff on the work of 18th century Indian miniature painter Nainsukh. Onscreen pre-show is Barry Doupé’s Lite-Brite-like video loop Dots (2016).

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 13, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, January 14, 2017 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Logan Center for the Arts - Chicago, United States
  • Dreamlands: Expanded - OPTIPUS - The Owl Flies at Twilight

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    For the 10th and final event of "Dreamlands: Expanded", a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the exhibition "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016", we are thrilled to present a new multi-projection and sound performance "The Owl Flies at Twilight" composed by the Optipus collective & orchestra in its largest configuration to date featuring 28 artists.

    New York collective or “media laboratory” Optipus, led by Bradley Eros, hints at the historic demise of analog media and the wisdom resulting from this awareness in their new work titled “The Owl Flies at Twilight”, referencing G.W.F. Hegel’s famous quote.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Knockdown Center - Maspeth, NY, United States
  • TIME is Love.10 - International video art program

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    <p>ZKM presents the tenth edition of <strong>TIME is Love Screening</strong>, international video art project gathering several artists. Established in 2008, the program has travelled to major cities in the world attracting a vibrant mix of media professionals, researchers, young people and families. The screening is accompanied by public discussions, demonstrations, talks and live performances.</p><p>Preoccupied with love, the project represents love stripped from its traditional clichés and timeless idealism. Each of the artists leads an interdisciplinary practice bringing a questioning and a criticism on a system of relation to others which appears to us as being dying.</p>

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 20, 2017 (All day)

    Venue: 

    ZKM Center for Art and Media - Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Experiments: Celluloid Traces

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    We embrace our nostalgia for all things analogue in this varied programme of experiments, indulging us with the crackling aesthetic of Super 8 alongside found footage from the archives and the fuzziness of early VHS.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, January 8, 2017 - 14:00 to Monday, January 9, 2017 - 13:55

    Venue: 

    Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom
  • This Is not a Film: The Cinema of Marcel Broodthaers

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    This series shows the films of Marcel Broodthaers as a sum of contradictions from which to understand his work as a whole, and develops the reasons for the medium’s privileged place, its investigation and filmic imaginary in contemporary art after 1970. The series, concludes the retrospective on the artist, takes place in the screening theatre and comprises an extensive program that shows in a single session different approaches to cinema as text, poetry, object and theater space.

    Dates: 

    Monday, January 9, 2017 - 19:00 to Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - 18:55

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  • Turbidus Film #18: Margaret Rorison & Jenny Gräf

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    Turbidus Film and Fylkingen presents Margaret Rorison (US) and Jenny Gräf (us/dk) in person.
    16mm Film Screening / Live Music / 16mm Film And Music Performance

    Curators: Daniel A. Swarthnas, Margaret Rorison and Jenny Gräf.

    Dates: 

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

    Venue: 

    Fylkingen - Stockholm, Sweden
  • Xcèntric: Burning with love. The Super-8 films of Val del Omar

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    Xcèntric opens the 2017 season with a special extraordinary session: a selection of the home movies of filmmaker José Val del Omar, made from reels from his family archive, accompanied by the live music of Niño de Elche.

    In the 1970s, Val del Omar started to film frequently in Super 8. These reels, in the form of essays and notebooks, include the fabulous experiences with image and light that he investigated in his PLAT laboratory, and a series of private recordings (trips, holidays, portraits), that also include variations and experiments on his main themes (water, flowers, the Alhambra…). Transfiguring his most everyday reality, Val del Omar continued the revelations of its mecamystics: “The extraordinary is in the bowels of the everyday […] I feel as though I am submerged in a palpitating being. Logical chains enchain and imprison us.” A selection of these images, rarely before shown in public, can now be seen through the “collective eye” which, for Val del Omar, is the cinema.

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 13, 2017 - 20:00 to Saturday, January 14, 2017 - 19:55

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  • Cineinfinito #9: Milena Gierke

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    During the 13 months I spent in New York, I always had my camera with me. This film concentrates on direct visual impressions of my daily life in New York. It is a sketchbook more than a documentation of my life. New York Film Diary is a very personal, silent inventory of what I saw, of what attracted my attention there –Milena Gierke 

    Programme:
    - New York Film Diary Sep. 3, 1994 - Oct. 3 1995 (1994-95) (Super 8, 90:00, silent, colour+b/w)

    Screening format: ProRes 422 HQ

    Dates: 

    Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 17:00 to Sunday, January 29, 2017 - 16:55

    Venue: 

    Filmoteca de Cantabria - Santander, Spain
  • On Resistance: International Avant-Garde Films & Videos

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    This international program brings together archival prints of forgotten films never shown in New York before and new countercurrent voices. Avant-garde artists Don Levy, Philippe Cote, and Ute Aurand share the screen with a new generation of makers whose works explore and embody exemplary fights for different forms of freedom. “On Resistance” includes a World premiere, five North American, two U.S., and four New York premieres, from fifteen different countries.

    Introduced by guest curator Mónica Savirón 

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 13, 2017 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Museum of the Moving Image - New York, Estados Unidos
  • Shoot Shoot Shoot: Mare’s Tail

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    "From one flick of the mare’s tail came an unending stream of images out of which was crystallised the milky way." – David Larcher

    In collaboration with LUX we’re thrilled to present a rare 16mm screening of David Larcher’s Mare’s Tail to mark the publication of Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative 1966-76 – a compendium of texts, interviews, images and documents from the era. Mark Webber will introduce the film and copies of the book will be available to purchase before the screening.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 19:00 to Monday, January 16, 2017 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom

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