Events

  • Dragging my video camera down the front steps

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    Dragging my video camera down the front steps: 30 years of unconventional camera movements from the Vtape collection.
    Saturday November 21 2009
    Screening at 2& 3:30pm, Curator talk at 3:00pm
    This installation will run until December 19 2009.

    For over a decade, Vtape has developed an intensive and multi-faceted intern programme for students and members of the interested public. We are very happy to support all your future endeavors and provide as many opportunities as we can within our facilities.

    Dragging my video camera down the front steps: 30 years of unconventional camera movements from the Vtape collection provides a showcase for the curatorial research of one of our recent - and longest serving – technical interns, John Shipman.

    Shipman says this of his intriguing selection: “Eight short videos, from 1974 to 2004, playfully use unusual camera positions and movements to create a slightly different visual gravity, showing things improbable, but viscerally informative."

    The opening screening will be on Saturday November 21 from 2pm-4pm. The screenings will be at 2:00pm and 3:30pm with a curator's talk at 3:00pm.

    401 Richmond St., #452
    Toronto, ON  M5V 3A8
    416 351-1317

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  • Center for Visual Music film series at Guggenheim New York

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    Nonobjective Films, 1920s-1950s
    A program of artists supported by Hilla Rebay
    Friday Nov 6, 2pm, and again on Nov 20, in New York

    An accompanying program to the Guggenheim's KANDINSKY exhibition.
    Organized by the Center for Visual Music

    In the 1940s, curator and founding director Hilla Rebay planned to establish a film center at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, which later became the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, to collect and promote nonobjective films. She awarded grants to artists and presented programs of short experimental films. With the help of Oskar Fischinger, an elaborate film center was planned to include studios and planetarium-style projection capability. Although unrealized, Rebay's support enabled many filmmakers to continue their work in abstract film. This program presents short films by filmmakers whose work was screened and/or supported by Rebay, including Jordan Belson, Mary Ellen Bute, Charles Dockum, Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, Hans Richter, Harry Smith, among others. Having experimented with nonobjectivity, many of these artists were familiar with the work of Vasily Kandinsky, one of its most famous practitioners, having seen his paintings at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting.

    14:00 16mm films
    - Symphonie Diagonale, Viking Eggeling, 1921-24
    - Film Studie, Hans Richter, 1926
    - Tarantella, Mary Ellen Bute, 1940
    - Film no. 7, Harry Smith, c.1952
    - Mobilcolor Performance at the Guggenheim Museum, Charles Dockum, 1952
    - Séance, Jordan Belson, 1959

    14:30 35mm films
    - Studie no. 7, Oskar Fischinger, 1931
    - Loops, Norman McLaren, 1940
    - Allegretto, Oskar Fischinger, 1936-1943
    - Radio Dynamics, Oskar Fischinger, 1942

    New Media Theater, free with Museum admission  (we're told you can access this via the gallery with Kandinsky's works on paper)

    Nov 6 and 20, then 2 December dates; program also screens in January at the upcoming Kandinsky symposium.

    Almost all are new prints; the Fischingers and Dockum are new prints from CVM's recent preservation projects. CVM also thanks Cecile Starr and Robert Haller.

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  • Light Industry: We Dig Repetition - Peter Roehr

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    We Dig Repetition: Peter Roehr
    Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 7:30pm
    Light Industry
    220 36th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 5th Floor
    Brooklyn, New York

    Curated by Mark Webber

    “I alter material by organizing it unchanged. Each work is an organized area of unchanged elements. Neither successive or additive, there is no result or sum.” (Peter Roehr, 1964)

    You might think that Andy Warhol took pleasure in endless repetition, but he’s got nothing on Peter Roehr, a German artist whose brief career produced hundreds of works using type, photography, collage, film and audiotape. Not content with applying mechanical reproduction techniques to art-making, Roehr instead chose to appropriate industrially produced materials. His many photo collages present austere grids of identically cropped images from magazines. Similarly, his film and sound montages are constructed from brief passages, frequently drawn from commercial advertising, repeated without variation, for an irregular number of reiterations. The result is an insistent, hypnotic demonstration of stoic seriality that takes time and time again.

    - Film-Montagen I-III, (Peter Roehr, 16mm, 1965, 23 mins)
    - Ton-Montagen I-II, (Peter Roehr, audiotape, 1965, 60 mins)

    Roehr died at the age of 23 in 1968. From November 2009 to March 2010, his work is surveyed in parallel exhibitions at the Städel Museum and Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt which commemorate the 60th anniversary since his birth.

    “I feel identical with what I do. In the ‘montages’ I realize, in an unrestricted manner, everything that is important to me. I believe, I am free.” (Peter Roehr, 1965)

    Mark Webber is an independent curator of avant-garde and artists' film and video, and programme advisor to the BFI London Film Festival. Recent projects include "Shoot Shoot Shoot", "Reverence: The Films of Owen Land”, and Tate Modern seasons on Robert Beavers and Tony Conrad. He is currently working on several publications, and visiting New York through the generosity of the Gershwin Hotel's artist-in-residence program.

    Tickets - $7, available at door.

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  • Close-up: Histories of the Avant-Garde Part II

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    Histories of the Avant-Garde Part II - Guy Sherwin in Person - Short Film Series + Man With Mirror

    Close-Up and The Dog Movement present a rare chance to see a large group of Guy Sherwin’s interconnected 3 minute films as well as the wonderfully subtle Expanded Cinema performance of Man With Mirror followed by a Q&A with the artist.

    Tuesday 24 November 8pm
    Guy Sherwin In Person - Short Film Series

    Parts from the Short Film Series will include: Eye, Bicycle, Metronome, Portrait with Parents, Window, Barn, Cat, Chimney, Maya, and Tree Reflection. All 3 mins B&W 16mm silent

    Followed by Man with Mirror (10 mins colour S-8mm)

    Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB. Ticket: £7/£5 Close-Up members
    Doors open at 7.45 pm

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  • Medienhaus Hannover: Urban Research

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    Urban Research
    presented by Klaus W. Eisenlohr
    Thursday, 05 Nov. 2009, 20:00h

    Klaus W. Eisenlohr, artist and filmmaker in Berlin, former Cast & Cut fellow in Hannover, presents a selection of his curated program "Urban Research". The selection comprises films from France, USA, Mexiko, Hungary, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom and Chile. Artists who explore the relations between built and social space use different forms of experimental and documentary film to express their concerns and views of public space in the city they live in, or in foreign countries. Different forms of close-up documentation or personal alienation to the places give ideas on how space is being used and transformed in contemporary cities. A multi-faceted show with both witty and subversive perspectives on urban architecture.

    Urban Research is a special, themed program at Directors Lounge art media festival. Urban Research selections have been shown in St. Petersburg, London, Freiburg, Poznan, Dordrecht and Berlin.

    Medienhaus Hannover e.V.
    Schwarzer Bär 6
    30449 Hannover

    www.medienhaus-hannover.de
    0511-441 440

    http://www.directorslounge.net
    more infos and images:
    http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/index.html

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  • tank tv: Ben Callaway 4th-24th November 2009

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    Ben Callaway (Down There, 2005)'“Ben Callaway’s works are constructed from anonymous, secondary footage taken from a diverse range of documentary, educational, promotional or amateur videos. Ben Callaway stresses the materiality of the medium through different manipulations of the source material: the images are dissolved by repeated analogue transfers, and then reconstructed in digital format, while their speed is also radically altered throughout the process.' Miguel Wandschneider, Curator, Culturgest, Lisbon.
    Ben Callaway’s technique results in work that is as visually rich as it is intriguing. Narrative and image break down as the artist transfers and attacks the material of video in order to create uneasy structures and a complex juxtaposition of form and content.

    The online exhibition includes the works Tampa, K, Rigadoon, Lufthansa, Guatiza and Thanamine.

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  • Made In Norway - VIP Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia

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    Made In Norway
    Norwegian video art exhibition at
    SKC, V.I.P. Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia November 9th & 10th

    Programme:

    November 9th:
    19h Video screening, ArtVideoExchange-Norway (curator: Mona Bentzen)
    - Sabina Jacobsson - Womens Voice of Iran (2007)
    - Bull.Miletic - Par Hasard (Eng. By Chance) (2009)
    - Karima Risk and Linda Saveholt – The Wall (2008)
    - Birgitte Sigmundstad- How to explain direct action to a live rabbit (2007)
    - Per Teljer – The Samaritan (2000)
    - Bjørn E. Pettersen – Eddy Baby (2009)
    - Margarida Paiva - Fragments from an Unknown Woman (2008)
    - Farhad Kalantary - Moving Target (2007)
    - Mona Bentzen – Made of Water (2008)
    - Jannicke Låker - Sunday Morning (2007)
    - Risto Holopainen - PEK (2007)
    - Martin Skauen - Felix Culpa, A Handmade Massacre (2007)

    Duration 01:05:37

    20h Lecture and discussion with Mona Bentzen

    November 10th:
    18h Video screening, Oslo Screenfestival (curator: Margarida Paiva)
    - Anne-Britt Rage - A thousand reasons why to become a socialist (1994)
    - Kaia Hugin Motholic - Mobble part 1 (2008)
    - Ane Lan - Africa (2007)
    - Bjørn Erik Haugen - A pale shade of grey (2007)
    - Geir Hansteen Jørgensen - Metamorphosis (2007)
    - Marianne Pfeffer Gjengedal - Zygote (2008)
    Duration: 30:00

    18:30h Lecture and discussion with Margarida Paiva

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  • Focus on Film: Study Day on Artists' Film and Video in Scotland

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    Focus on Film: Study Day on Artists' Film and Video in Scotland
    Saturday, November 7th 2009, 9:30 - 16:30
    Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Gallery Complex, The Mound, Edinburgh

    Organised in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland, this lively and informative study day brings together past, present and future perspectives on artists’ film and video in Scotland. It celebrates the Dean Gallery’s current exhibition ‘RunningTime: Artist Films in Scotland 1960 to Now’.

    The programme features presentationsand discussions by Francis McKee, George Clark, Stephen Partridge,Bryony McIntyre and David Curtis, with talks and screenings by the artists Dalziel & Scullion and Matt Hulse. More details can be found on the Diversions website (www.diversionsfilmfestival.co.uk).

    This is a free event. To register please contact [email protected] with your name, organisation,email address and telephone number.

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  • Lichtspiel: Contemporary Abstract Animation and Visual Music

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    Lichtspiel: Contemporary Abstract Animation and Visual Music

    Tuesday, November 3rd 2009, 20:30 - 22:30

    REDCAT
    631 W 2nd Street
    Los Angeles, CA

    Los Angeles premieres. Co-presented with Center for Visual Music

    “Joost Rekveld has provided an undeniable masterpiece with #37.” International Film Festival Rotterdam

    This ravishing “play of light” explores rhythmic abstractions in the cinematic tradition of Oskar Fischinger and visual music animation. The centerpiece of the program is the Los Angeles debut of Joost Rekveld’s #37 (Netherlands, 2009, 31 min., 35mm CinemaScope), a stunningly beautiful study of the propagation and diffraction of light through crystalline structures. Sure to bend more than a few minds, the lineup also offers award-winning animated shorts from around the world, most of which are screening in L.A. for the first time. Featured artists include Scott Draves, Robert Seidel, Steven Woloshen, Bärbel Neubauer, Thorsten Fleisch, Bret Battey, Michael Scroggins, Samantha Krukowski, Mondi, Devon Damonte, Scott Nyerges, Vivek Patel and Yusuke Nakajima. Plus the final film by the late CGI wizard Richard “Doc” Baily.

    In person: Joost Rekveld

    Curated by Center for Visual Music with Steve Anker.

    Tickets and more information at http://www.redcat.org/event/lichtspiel

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  • Scratch Projection: Materia Obscura

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    Scratch Projection
    Jürgen Reble: Materia Obscura
    Tuesday 03 November 2009, 20:30h, 6€

    This work is based on some excerpts of the film "Instabile Materie" which I realized in 1995. Sorce material were handprocessed 16mm film stripes which I covered with chemicals. In this so called "chemograms" the used substances mostly salts became moulding shapes. Years later I digitized parts of the film frame by frame in high resolution and started with the computer to slow down the speed just to analyse the sequence of events. So arose a morphology of the film emulsion with the embeded substances and a bizarre, strange world full of magic revealed.

     

    Cinéma Action Christine
    4, rue Christine
    75006 Paris
    FRANCE

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