Video Art Miden is once again getting ready to “flood” Kalamata (Greece) with contemporary video art, in a 4-day screening event, from July 6 to 9, 2023, activating a different part of the city each day. Audiovisual and artistic experimentation, rhythm, imagination, color, poetry, video dance, performance, animation, artificial intelligence, personal narratives, contemporary social-political-existential reflections and images from the future meet in a rich international program, which traces the trends of our time on a global level, through the work of established as well as emerging young artists.

Close-Up pays tribute to Kenneth Anger with a screening of the Magick Lantern Cycle. Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon book, Kenneth Anger was a unique figure in post-war American culture. His iconic short films are characterised by a mystical-symbolic visual language and phantasmagorical-sensual opulence that underscores the medium’s transgressive potential. Anger’s work fundamentally shaped the aesthetics of 1960s and 1970s subcultures, the visual lexicon of pop and music videos and queer iconography.

Chris H Lynn will present a collection of new super 8 films from his Journal of Drifting Hours series on 7/1/23 at UNZA Lab.

Films include: Snow and the Atlantic; In December; The owl,  the moon, and a boat in the forest

Journal of Drifting Hours Series :Drifting moments, lyrical passages, memory impulses, landscape studies and visual notations captured on super 8 film.

Archivo Shub is made up of two programs of short films that present the born traces from individual and collective creation in film laboratories and workshops; fragile and imperfect, they reveal their status as artisanal and processual cinema. This curation invites you to experience a compost cinema, which recycles images and sounds turned into waste to formulate new powers of life from the territory today called Colombia.

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