Events

  • Avant-Garde Masters

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    The Cross Revolves at Sunset: Restored Experimental Film from the Academy Film Archives
    Sunday, January 23, 7:30 pm
    Introduced by Mark Toscano, Preservationist, Academy Film Archive.

    From Contemplation to Chaos: An Avant-Garde Sampler
    Saturday, January 29, 3:00 pm
    With Millicent Brower, Larry Gottheim, and Carolee Schneemann in person.

    FACE
    Sunday, February 6, 7:00pm
    16mm print restored by The Museum of Modern Art
    Dir. Andy Warhol. 1965, 66 mins.

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    Saturday, January 22, 2011 (All day) to Saturday, February 26, 2011 (All day)

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    Museum of the Moving Image - New York, Estados Unidos
  • The Cross Revolves at Sunset: Restored Experimental Film from the Academy Film Archive

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    Hotel Cartograph (Scott Stark, 1983)The Cross Revolves at Sunset: Restored Experimental Film from the Academy Film Archive
    Sunday, January 23, 19:30h
    Museum of the Moving Image
    35 Avenue at 37 Street, Astoria, NY 11106

    Introduced by Mark Toscano, Preservationist, Academy Film Archive
    The title of this mixed program of acknowledged masterworks and rarities was inspired by Keewatin Dewdney’s rarely screened gem The Maltese Cross Movement, which playfully explores many elemental and metaphorical aspects of celluloid cinema, themes touched on by other films in the show.

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  • Close-Up: Abandoned Archives And Forgotten Histories Remembered

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    Close-Up: Abandoned Archives And Forgotten Histories Remembered
    Tuesday February 1st, 20h, Doors open at 19.45h
    The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB
    Free entrance

    Close-Up presents two films discovered in a stockpile of discarded 16mm film. The first film, Black Umbrella, is a new montage by filmmaker Louis Benassi, who uses footage of fires in London to present a unique vision of the capital during war and peacetime. Black Umbrella will be followed by Peter Watkins's notorious 1965 drama documentary The War Game, a complete 16mm copy of which was found along with the fire footage.

    "…It became apparent that what was contained in these cans was in fact a forgotten history an abandoned archive spanning over five decades of film shot in London at major fire incidents. The burning down of Crystal Palace in 1934, the flying bomb raids on central and east London in 1940, the fire at the Houses of Parliament in 1958 and, even more shocking, a discarded 16mm print of Peter Watkins's 1965 film The War Game." — Louis Benassi

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  • One Minute volume 4

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    One Minute volume 4
    Saturday 5th February, 12-17h
    The Museum of Club Culture, 10 Humber Street, Hull, HU1 1TG

    One Minute volume 4 - the fourth in the series of programmes of artists' moving image, curated by artist Kerry Baldry will be screened at The Museum of Club Culture next 5th February.

    One Minute volume 4 includes work by: Katharine Meynell, Jonathan Moss, Eva Rudlinger, Chris Meigh Andrews, Martin Pickles, Gordon Dawson, Sam Renseiw and Philip Sanderson, Tony Hill, Laure Prouvost, Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker, Kerry Baldry, Alex Pearl, Steven Ball, Anahita Razmi, Kate Jessop, Bob Levene, Erica Scourti, Elizabeth Hobbs, Liam Wells, Claire Morales, Michael Cousin, Tina Keane, Virginia Hilyard, Riccardo Iacono, Fil Ieropoulos, Marty St. James, James Snazell, Stuart Pound, Richard Tuohy, Simon Payne, Tansy Spinks, Louisa Minkin, Zhel Vukicevic, Leister/Harris, Nicki Rolls, Nick Herbert, Daniela Butsch, Michael Szpakowski, David Kefford, Cate Elwes.

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  • 12th Dresdner Schmalfilmtage

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    12th Dresdner SchmalfilmtageThe Festival for experimental film, home cinema, trash and classical independent film is running its 12th edition in 2011 at the Motorenhalle Centre of Contemporay Art in Dresden, Germany. From 20th to 22th of January the festival is focusing on productions with Super8/16 mm  films. It has been the first German place of the international 8/16 mm-scene. Works by filmmakers from more than 20 countries have been presented in Dresden, including well-known European filmmakers such as Lisl Ponger, Mathias Müller, Jan Peters, Matt Hulse, Johanna Vaude or Helga Fanderl.

    This year's topic is "Vagabonding Images - from the art crossing borders". Iceland, Afghanistan, Portugal, Italy, Pakistan, USA, Japan ... bizarre landscapes, extraordinary musicians and newly discovered artists. The cine-camera always ready for shooting, like filming how the composer and improvisational genius Fred Frith creates his ideas while sheep grazing or walking through the supermarket. The German filmmakers Werner Penzel and Nicolas Humbert wouldn't like to miss this during their trips abroad. Or as Fridrik Thór Fridriksson - Icelandic and Oscar-nominated director: The camera mounted on the car roof connected to the odometer, all 12 km shots a picture and so not only mapped his own country but also discoverd its diverse and bizarre natural and cultural landscape. Million feet of films were exposed like this on the road or differently.

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  • Filmforum’s 35th Anniversary Show: A Celebration of Kodachrome

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    The Secret of Wendel Samson (Michael Kuchar, 1966)Los Angeles Filmforum presents
    Filmforum’s 35th Anniversary Show: A Celebration of Kodachrome
    Sunday January 30, 2011, 19:30h
    At the Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
    6712 Hollywood Blvd. (at Las Palmas), Los Angeles CA 90028

    Michael Kuchar in person!

    Filmforum started its regular public screenings in January 1976, and we're doing better than ever! We're delighted that we are still bringing you film and video art that you won't be able to see anywhere else.  In the coming year we will be bringing you an amazing array of films and videos over the next year, such as highlights from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, our Festival of (In)appropriation, traveling artists such as Michael Robinson and Fred Worden, a brilliant new documentary from China, filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa, and a wide array of contemporary film and video work exploring the possibilities of the media. Fall 2012. Spring 2012 will bring our mammoth 16-part series Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, as part of Pacific Standard Time.

    We're celebrating our 35th anniversary with a celebration of Kodachrome, that marvelous film stock that has just been forced into early retirement.  We're screening a few classic films shot or printed on Kodachrome, followed by an intimate and delightful reception, and we hope that you will join us!

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