Screenings

  • Xcèntric: Spiritual constructions

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    A programme of screenings to accompany the exhibition “The Thinking Machine. Ramon Llull and the «ars combinatoria»

    Before artists worked with computers, a series of avant-garde painters such as Oskar Fischinger, Harry Smith and Jordan Belson created a form of non-narrative film that addressed geometry, the possibilities of mathematic combinations, and spirituality. After these visionaries, artists like John Whitney embraced the new synthetic image medium to continue exploring abstract animation. Many artists have followed in their wake, up until the present day.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, December 4, 2016 - 18:30

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  • OFFoff Cinema: Televizinho, a live video-essay by Veridiana Zurita

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    Televizinho is an ongoing project of re-enactments of soap operas in different contexts in Brazil. Its first edition took place in 2014 when Veridiana Zurita worked together with the riverside community 'Santa Isabel' in the Amazon. During 4 months she lived together with different families along the Tupana river, eating what they ate , sleeping as they did, watching what they watched: soap operas. Every night they looked at the soap together and picked out a scene to re-enact the next day. While using the participants' houses as movie set, the re-enactments took the form of something between fiction and documentary. The way soaps seem to order language and physicality was disturbed by those re-enacting it while different logics of appropriation were inaugurated.

    Dates: 

    Monday, December 5, 2016 - 20:00 to Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Belgium
  • Xcèntric: Geometric drift

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    A programme of screenings to accompany the exhibition “The Thinking Machine. Ramon Llull and the «ars combinatoria»

    Before artists worked with computers, a series of avant-garde painters such as Oskar Fischinger, Harry Smith and Jordan Belson created a form of non-narrative film that addressed geometry, the possibilities of mathematic combinations, and spirituality. After these visionaries, artists like John Whitney embraced the new synthetic image medium to continue exploring abstract animation. Many artists have followed in their wake, up until the present day.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, December 1, 2016 - 20:00 to Friday, December 2, 2016 - 19:55

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  • Through a Different Lens: Film Work by Joanna Margaret Paul

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    "All my films poems paintings play more or less between inner and outer events." – Joanna Margaret Paul

    Filmmaker and curator Peter Todd presents a programme of 12 films screened for the first time to an international audience by New Zealand poet, painter, and filmmaker Joanna Margaret Paul. Often shot and edited in camera, her films chronicle motherhood and domestic life, the worn traces of urban settlement and the persistent presence of the natural world. Todd’s accompanying essay places Joanna Margaret Paul work in the lineage of filmmakers Margaret Tait and Robert Bresson, and painter Frances Hodgkins.

    Dates: 

    Friday, December 2, 2016 - 20:00 to Saturday, December 3, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom
  • Bozar Cinema: Hierarchy of particles

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    Hierarchy of Particles is a program of films and videos that explore particles and fragments of image and sound through a variety of formats – from image-processing of video signals, to high-contrast and hand-processed or manipulated celluloid film stock, and re-purposing film footage and warbled audio fragments.

    Curated by Mia Ferm (Cinema Project, Portland)

    Dates: 

    Monday, November 28, 2016 - 20:00 to Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 19:55

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  • Movement Material: Camera/Dance Works by Jeremy Moss & Pamela Vail

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    The Nightingale welcomes Jeremy Moss and Pamela Vail to present a 60-minute program of video, 16mm projection, and live performance that highlights transfigurative gestures via the collision of camera and dance. This program explores the roles and functions of both the cinematographer (Jeremy Moss) and the dancer (Pamela Vail) while engaging questions of space, movement, and the ways in which the frame and the cut create alternate walls and rhythms.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, December 7, 2016 - 19:00 to Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    The Nightingale - Chicago, United States
  • Cineinfinito #7: John Price (35mm)

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    John Price is an independent filmmaker who has produced experimental documentaries, dance and diary films since 1986. His love of analog photography led naturally to extensive alchemical experimentation with a wide range of motion picture film emulsions and camera formats. Engagement with these modes of creation connected the way an images texture communicates subtext and is a key feature of his work and the work he shoots for others.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, December 3, 2016 - 16:30

    Venue: 

    Filmoteca de Cantabria - Santander, Spain
  • Ann Deborah Levy and Chris Lynn: Travelers with Cameras

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    Ann Deborah Levy and Chris Lynn are both film/video makers who travel with their cameras.  They shoot films and videos close to their respective homes in New York and Maryland or farther afield in Europe or China.  These works are not typical travel films that feature only famous tourist destinations, but instead capture what is often not shown: bits of daily life; poetics of light and weather changing the landscape or cityscape; and historic structures, whether still active as places of worship or now simply monuments to past events, as tourists interact with them and as sounds of the modern life of their surrounding urban settings intrude. 

    Dates: 

    Friday, December 2, 2016 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Port Washington Public Library - Port Washington, United States
  • Club des Femmes: Her Image Fades as Her Voice Rises

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    Join us for a dynamic and timely re-staging of Circles’ inaugural film programme ‘Her Image Fades as her Voice Rises’ (1982), with films selected by Lis Rhodes and Felicity Sparrow. A selection of four films by four filmmakers made across time and different generations of women filmmakers placed in dialogue with each other.

    Circles, founded in 1979, was the first feminist film and video distribution organisation in the UK that emerged out of a heightened moment in the 1970s narrative of London’s feminist film history, politics and collective activism in which the Women’s Liberation Movement played an influential part. Cirlces provided an essential role in the promotion and distribution of exclusively women filmmakers, supporting filmmaking that varied from political and social documentary to more experimental practice.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 18:30

    Venue: 

    The Photographers’ Gallery - London, United Kingdom
  • OFFoff Cinema: Moldy and infected

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    In 1927, Jan Cornelis Mol, who was then director of the Fruitveiling, made "From the realm of crystal", an early example of the use of time-lapse photography in film. Using microscope and macro lens Mol makes a stunning film that shows the biological and chemical crystals. This work was picked up by the avant-garde artists who saw this film as the example of the absolute film. In the famous Studio 24 in Paris the work was even shown as an expanded work with three projectors!

    Dates: 

    Monday, November 28, 2016 - 20:00 to Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Belgium

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