Screenings

  • Photography? An Artifice!

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    If the end of the 1960s was marked by the American underground, it was also a particularly fecund period in the development of conceptual cinematic proposals made by artists and filmmakers who were sharing a special interest to the consubstantial components of the film. This approach, which some film historians have defined as structuralist, has drawn the outlines of a new ontology of the film based on the rejection of his illusionist nature and motivated by the deconstruction of its own means of production. Paradoxically or not, this reflexive tendency of cinema has made its dependence – firstly historical and technological - to the photography one of the central elements in the affirmation of its autonomy. By appropriating production stills photography, the American artist Morgan Fisher has displaced, in Production Stills (1970), the documentary function of these still pictures by exhibiting them successively in the front of his 16mm camera and making them both object and subject of his film. This principle of succession finds an extension in Gary Beydler’s Pasadena Freeway Stills (1974) in which the Californian artist explores the relationship between stillness and moving pictures through the scrolling phenomenon. If the films of Fisher and Beydler make from the exposure of their production process by using photography one of the theoretical clue of their reading, Wavelength (1967) by the Canadian Michael Snow achieves, through the masterful and minimalist operation of a continuous zoom movement toward a photograph hung on the wall of a studio, a new ontology of the film in which the photography would appear as a simple off-center element.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 19:00 to Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
  • Music of the bodies

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    Paths of musics and bodies stirring many sounds from punk to electronic music through Bizet. These films oscillate between two poles of body representation, from geometrical dance to an erotic of gesture and editing.

    Curated by Boris Monneau

    Dates: 

    Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 18:30

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  • Unconscious Archives #16: Bruce Mcclure + Roberto Crippa

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    Bruce McClure steps off the international stage to treat an intimate audience at Apiary Studios to his durational, banging, attack and decay on overdriven celluloid with an hour long film and sound projection performance. With support from Roberto Crippa providing his special brand of corporeal-aural intensity.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 20:00 to Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Apiary Studios - London, United Kingdom
  • Xcèntric: Tortured dust

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    Stan Brakhage, central figure in US avant-garde cinema, lived from the early sixties in Rollinsville, Colorado, with his wife and children, isolated in the mountains. There, he developed a highly personal and lyrical cinema, centred on his family: a series of autobiographical films that he entitled The Book of the FamilyTortured Dust was the end of this cycle. Filmed throughout three years in the eighties, at the heart of a household in crisis, it is his longest and most moving home movie. Using a hand-held camera, a rhythmic, intricate editing process and touches of psychodrama, the film portrays with insight and distance their everyday life. Through windows, mirrors, flashes of colour and chiaroscuro, Brakhage records his children leaving home, the lack of communication and the breakdown of his marriage.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 20:00 to Friday, March 27, 2015 - 19:55

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  • CROSSROADS 2015, program 9: greetings to ancestors

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    In Person: Mary Helena Clark; Joshua Gen Solondz and Eric Stewart

    - PRISONER'S CINEMA (2012) by Joshua Gen Solondz; digital video, b&w, sound, 10 minutes, from the maker bay area premiere
    —It has been widely reported that prisoners confined to dark cells often see brilliant light displays, which is sometimes called the “prisoner’s cinema.”

    Dates: 

    Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 20:00 to Monday, April 13, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, United States
  • CROSSROADS 2015, program 4: forward reverse read write: conjectures about the animal

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    In Person: Michael Betancourt; Karissa Hahn; Jeremy Moss and Deborah Stratman

    - CICATRIX (2014) by Jeremy Moss; digital video, color, silent, 7 minutes, from the maker
    —A textural experience in layers, scars and deterioration that combines hand processed, tinted and toned 16mm imagery. Both sight and sound ooze and emulate those tangible tremors catalyzed by increasing awareness of loss and decay. Footage created at the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) in Mt. Forest, Ontario, Canada. (Jeremy Moss)

    Dates: 

    Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 16:00 to Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 15:55

    Venue: 

    Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, United States
  • CROSSROADS 2015, program 1: visitations, dreams of falls (watch them collapsing)

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    IN PERSON: Tommy Becker; Jon Behrens and Vanessa Renwick

    - LAYOVER (2014) by Vanessa Renwick; digital video, color, sound, 6 minutes, from the maker
    —A swan song for the factory age. A vortex of swirling Vaux’s Swifts which layover for three weeks in Portland OR each fall on their migration to South America. Birds swoop over our demise, their relentless choreography signaling a new start. (Vanessa Renwick)

    Dates: 

    Friday, April 10, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, United States
  • Animation and Earthworks; Eyeworks and Errata: Films by Alexander Stewart

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    The films of Chicago-based filmmaker/graphic artist (and co-director of Chicago’s Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation) Alexander Stewart are variously energetic and animated and oddly geological. They flirt with the legacies of structural film and psychedelic cinema while adding significantly to the obscure traditions of the hand-drawn animation and film-as-abstract-graphic-art.

    Dates: 

    Friday, March 27, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Artists' Television Access - San Francisco, Estados Unidos
  • The Body Extended: Works by Scott Stark

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    Scott Stark has produced more than 75 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images. Born and educated in the midwest, he has always been interested in aggressively pushing his work beyond the threshold of traditional viewing expectations, challenging the audience to question its relationship to the cinematic process; yet he also tries to build into the work elements of humor and incongruity that allow the viewer an entryway into the work while maintaining a critical distance. Both a passionate purist and a cynical skeptic, he likes to emphasize the physicality of film while cross-referencing it to the world outside the theater, attempting to lay bare the paradoxes of modern culture and the magical nature of the perceptual experience.

    Dates: 

    Monday, April 6, 2015 - 21:00 to Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    The Red Room - Baltimore, United States
  • Screening Room (1972-1981): A Tribute to Robert Gardner

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    In association with the festival Cinema du Reel, the film department of the Centre Pompidou pays a tribute to Robert Gardner from March 19th to March 28th. Anthropologist and filmmaker, founder of the Film Study Center at Harvard University, Robert Gardner is the author of a singular oeuvre, dedicated to distant societies – from the Dani's tribe of New Guinea (Dead Birds, 1964) to the Ika Indians of Colombia (Ika Hands, 1988) or the Hamar in Ethiopia (River of Sand, 1973) - as well as portraits of contemporary artists (such as Mark Tobey and Sean Scully).

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 19:00 to Friday, March 20, 2015 - 18:55
    Friday, March 20, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 18:55
    Saturday, March 21, 2015 - 19:00 to Sunday, March 22, 2015 - 18:55
    Sunday, March 22, 2015 - 19:00 to Monday, March 23, 2015 - 18:55
    Monday, March 23, 2015 - 19:00 to Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 18:55
    Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 19:00 to Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 18:55
    Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 19:00 to Friday, March 27, 2015 - 18:55
    Friday, March 27, 2015 - 19:00 to Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 18:55
    Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 19:00 to Sunday, March 29, 2015 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou - Paris, France

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