Events

  • Urban Research at King Kong Mannheim

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    Elsewhereness: Yokohama 2008 (Anders Weberg & Robert Willim, 2008)Sound Pattern #1 Violence in the City

    Urban Research/ Directors Lounge at
    KING KONG Contemporary Art Project, Ehrenhof des Mannheimer Barockschlosses

    12-29 November 2010
    Opening reception 12 November 19:30
    Mannheim Barock Castle

    Three guest curators, Klaus W. Eisenlohr (Berlin), Hans W. Koch (Köln) und Thomas Lühr Frankfurt/M.) present video and sound works.

    Barock Castle Catacombes: Tom Skipp's 3-channel work Stormwater, which explores Europe's biggest stormwater reservoir before the flood

    Container 1: Urban Research Screening and Installation"urban interference and the city’s symbols"
    The success of modern cities is connected with relative security and trust in the social contract between citizens. As Jan Philippe Reemtsma states: "If I happen to drop into a violent situation, I will neither be made responsible for not being armed, nor for having failed to defend myself." (memory-quoted). Although this unwritten contract is part of the production of modernity, urban myths and symbols often tell about violent situations. Therefore, films about urban symbols often deal with the uncanny. They thus touch the precarious balance between the violence of law enforcement and undisclosed threats of decay.On the other hand, with urban interventions, artists try to play a more active role in society . Some artists see themselves as "political activist" and try to change politics and society; others just try to reach a different, more divers audience; or, they like to reach out for a seemingly impossible dream. All of them, however, share visions and ideas about urban life. And those inspirations may be infectious!

    Videos:
    - Seven After Eleven, 2008 (Christina McPhee US)
    - Play Ground, 2009 (Rinat Edelstein IL)
    - Descend, 2009 (Pablo Useros ES)
    - Fragments of the Los Angeles River, 2009 (Richard O’Sullivan UK)
    - Elsewhereness: Yokohama, 2008 (Anders Weberg + Robert Willim SW)
    - Sintia, (Jose Matiella +Ivan Meza MX)
    - Buda, 2009 (Beatriz + Carlos Matiella MX)
    - Easy Rider, 2006 (Pilvi Takala FI)
    - Jalkeilla Taas (Up And About Again), 2009 (Maarit Suomi-Väänänen FI)
    - Amusement Park, 2001 (Pilvi Takala FI)
    - Drive, 2008 (Elham Rokni IL)
    - Simulacro, 2005 (Hector Falcon MX)
    - Moel Yad, 2009 (Hadas Tapouchi IL)
    - Night Meter, 2000 (Yaron Lapid UK)
    - Interception 2007-2009 (Roch Forowicz PL)
    - Stormwater / Estanque de tormentas (Tom Skipp ES)

    Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr (Directors’ Lounge Berlin)

    Links:
    KIng Kong
    Klaus W. Eisenlohr

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  • Der Rest ist Schweigen (The Rest is Silence)

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    Director Helmut Käutner transposes Hamlet to post-war Germany: John H. Claudius (Hardy Krüger) returns from America manically-obsessed by the idea that his father was not killed in an air raid, but was murdered.

    The film features many references to Shakespeare's original. Käutner's 'Der Rest ist Schweigen' (The Rest is Silence) is not only a thriller, it is also a critique of the war-profiteering of German industry during the Second World War, telling the age-old story of revenge and madness within a modern context.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 19:00 to Friday, November 12, 2010 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Goethe-Institut London - London, United Kingdom

  • Recent Spanish Experimental Cinema: Inner Geography

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    Forth and Back and Forth (Albert Alcoz, 2007)Recent Spanish Experimental Cinema: Inner Geography
    Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 19:30h
    Pacific Film Archive Theater
    2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California, USA

    Introduced and curated by Garbiñe Ortega
    Laida Lertxundi in person

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - Berkeley , United States

  • Der Kaufmann von Venedig (The Jew of Mestri)

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    Written, directed and produced by Peter Paul Felner, this 1923 adaptation of the 'Merchant of Venice' is partly based on Shakespeare's comedy, partly on Felner's invention. The excellent cast of Der Kaufmann von Venedig (The Jew of Mestri) includes Werner Krauss (the demonic Dr. Caligari) in the title role, Max Schreck (Murnau's Nosferatu) and German silent movie star Henny Porten.

    With live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne. The film will be introduced by Professor Tony Howard, Warwick University. The film will also be followed by a Q & A.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 19:00 to Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Goethe-Institut London - London, United Kingdom

  • Liz Wendelbo - Opticks

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    Liz Wendelbo - OpticksOPTICKS
    works by Liz Wendelbo
    November 19 – December 13, 2010
    Opening Reception: Friday November 19, 6-9PM

    MICROSCOPE Gallery is pleased to present - as our 3rd exhibition – artist Liz Wendelbo in her first solo show Opticks.
    The French/Norwegian Wendelbo is a Brooklyn-based artist working primarily with photography and film and is a member of the analog electronic duo “Xeno & Oaklander.” Opticks features photographic prints, Polaroids, and works on paper related to Wendelbo’s new abstract 16mm film series 'Opticks XVIII, XIX, XX - Sets & Lights' - shown at the New Museum in October – which is also on display.

    Wendelbo’s work has previously exhibited at Artist’s Space, Andrew Kreps Gallery, White Columns, Elizabeth Dee Gallery and others.
    Opticks runs November 19 to December 13.
    Opening reception, Friday November 19th 6-9PM.

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  • CUBEOpen : Exhibition 2010

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    CUBEOpen : Exhibition 2010

    Private View: Thursday 18 November, 6-9pm
    19 November 2010 – 22 January 2011
    Late Night Opening: 20 January 2011, 5.30 – 8pm

    FREE ENTRY

    We are delighted to announce this year’s CUBEOpen. Now in its fourth year, the competition promises to showcase the best work by both emerging talent and more established artists, whose practices reflect current trends and debates surrounding the urban built environment.

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  • Cork Film Centre: Pip Chodorov Talk

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    Cork Film Centre: Pip Chodorov Talk
    November 10th & 11th
    Cork Film Centre
    Civic Trust House, 50 Pope's Quay, Cork, Ireland

     

    Experimental filmmaker and distributor Pip Chodorov, this year's guest of Corona Cork Film Festival and Cork Film Centre, will be giving a talk at CFC on Thursday, November 11th.

    Pip Chodorov, one of contemporary experimental film's most renowned figues, will be attending Corona Cork Film Festival this year. In addition to being a filmmaker, the Paris-based Pip Chodorov is deeply involved in many aspects of experimental cinema. He is particularly noted for his championing of film-on-film, as opposed to digital formats. He has had much experience with co-operative, artist-run film labs; he is behind the prestigious Re:Voir (http://www.re-voir.com/) experimental film distribution label; he also founded the first gallery in the world devoted entirely to exhibiting experimental film (http://www.film-gallery.org/); he created the still thriving 'Frameworks' online experimental film discussion forum back in the mid-'90s...

    In Cork, he will be showing his documentary, Free Radicals:A History of Experimental Film, a personal view of the subject featuring interviews with many of its giants. He will also be presenting a programme of great experimental shorts which he has curated.

    In addition, Pip will be giving a talk at Cork Film Centre on the afternoon of Thursday November 11th, 3.30-5 pm, which will focus on working with the film (as opposed to video) medium in a DIY context, an area in which his expertise is internationally noted. This event is free and open to all, but places are limited so please book in advance. To reserve a place, please email [email protected]
    FREE RADICALS: A HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM. Nov 10, 8:30pm, Gate Cinema

    Trailer: http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/video-et-podcast?vid=109

    The greatest film-artists and film-poets of the 20th Century were free to explore and invent a radical new art form: the avant-garde, underground, experimental cinema. It was fun! It was exciting! It was crazy! But they soon found themselves in a no-man's-land: with no audience, no distribution, no funding, no film industry or art world to support them, they had to set up their own cinematheques, distribution networks and cooperatives, and these are still active today. A story of creativity, friendship, hardship, solidarity and cinema.

    Starring: Hans Richter, Len Lye, Robert Breer, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs, Stan Brakhage, Stan Vanderbeek, Maurice Lemaître...
    Music by Slink Moss.
    Edited by Nicolas Sarkissian.
    Directed by Pip Chodorov.
    Produced by Ron Dyens and Aurélia Prévieu (Sacrebleu Productions).


    SHORTS PROGRAMME.     Nov 11, 8:30pm, Gate Cinema

    - Chuck Jones, Duck Amuck, 1951 7'
    - Hans Richter, Rhythmus 21, 1921 3'
    - Oskar Fischinger, Allegretto, 1936 3'
    - Maya Deren, A Study in Choreography for Camera, 1944 3'
    - Stan Brakhage, Window Water Baby Moving, 1959 12'
    - James Whitney, Lapis, 1966 9'
    - Maurice Lemaitre, The Song of Rio Jim, 1978 6'
    - Martin Arnold, piece touchée 1989 15'
    - Jeff Scher, Yours, 1997 3'

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  • MassArt Film Society: Martha Colburn

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    MassArt Film Society: Martha Colburn
    Wednesday, November 10th, 20h, 4$
    Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department
    Screening room 1. 621 Huntington Ave. Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

    In my work I utilize the language and materials of filmmaking to comment on popular culture, consumerism, politics and sexuality. My work addresses contemporary topics to express my personal anxieties and passions. Through a collage of live action (paint-on-glass) animations, found footage and documentary filmmaking techniques, my films are a disturbing and at times humorous take on ...popular and political culture.

    In recent years I have expanded my technique to include the use of multi-plane glass animation, whereby you have three to five layers of artwork animated between sheets of glass.

    With each new film, I construct a new ‘animating stand’ to use for the actual filming; rigging layers of glass for depth, a network of wires in the air, odd boxes made from shelving and mirrors and so on. I work completely analog on 16mm and 35mm film and my special effects are not a computer-determined program. I hand paint the film after it is filmed , frame-by-frame or use special materials to create the desired effect.

    Complimenting my films, I create elaborately layered collages, paintings, and installations that incorporate transparencies, recordings, and live performances. As my conceptual process grows, so follows advances in my already detailed and labor-intensive animating process. Technically, I am expanding my technique into working with multi-plane glass animation which represents a physical manifestation of my conceptually layered ideas.

    Currently I am working on films that combine art historical representations and current depictions of politics to challenge our notions of truth and fantasy. As a descendent of some of America’s earliest settlers (ministers, farmers and wagon train members), I have an awareness of the repository of the guilt-haunted twisted history of the American soul. My current work draws from this perspective and personal experience to address issues such as Methamphetamine use, environmental catastrophes, and man’s relationship to nature.

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