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  • Takahiko Iimura: Writing with light

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    White calligraphy, Takahiko IimuraTakahiko Iimura: Writing with light
    Films and live performance by Takahiko Iimura
    Saturday December 10, 19h, Admission $6
    MICROSCOPE, 4 Charles Place Bushwick Brooklyn NY 11221

    Microscope Gallery is very happy to welcome back from Tokyo Japanese master of experimental cinema Takahiko Iimura. The show will feature the NY premieres of several of Iimura’s works on film, as well as a special Super 8mm performance White Calligraphy, Re-read where Iimura will write with light. Not to be missed.

    Programme:

    Eye For Eye, Ear For Ear (NY Premiere)
    featuring:
    - Film Strips I (1967-1970/2009) 12 min, music by Haruyuki Suzuki (2009)
    - Film Strips II (1967-70/2009) 13 min, music by Haruyuki Suzuki (2009)

    “The best work of Iimura’s middle period is characterized by increasingly formal concerns, concerns most effectively demonstrated by Film Strips I and II (1967-70). Film Strips II […] resulted in an experience which is not only interesting visually, but which is implicitly a powerful record of a painful time and a warning about the future.”
    – Scott MacDonald (Afterimage, April, 1978 (The author of “Critical Cinema,” California Univ. Press)

    “When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East Village in New York, which was a center of the former, and watched TV news of the latter often. These two films, Film Strips I and II, were taken from the scenes respectively, not as a documentary but as an inner report of mine, abstracted yet chaotic.” — Taka Iimura

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  • Duncan Reekie: A Retrospective

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    DESTROY ALL MOBSTERS (Duncan Reekie, 1993)Duncan Reekie: A Retrospective
    Saturday, December 3, 19:30h
    The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD

    As part of the London Underground Film Festival, Duncan Reekie will present and perform a selection of work including early Super 8 films, recent digital video and the world premiere of a new performance. Duncan Reekie has been a malign influence on British Underground Cinema for over twenty years. He has produced a diverse body of work that explores a variety of styles, techniques and purpose including narrative drama, scratching and colouring celluloid, multiple superimpositions, video collage and lyrical visions. Reekie has developed a mongrel praxis that refuses the institutional separation between theory and practice. It is subjective and chaotic, it is enmeshed in a complex system of political contingencies : he is an agent in the narrative. He is perhaps most celebrated for his performance work which features projected images and scathing rhetoric which is often mistaken for irony. He is a founder member of the infamous Exploding Cinema Collective, a radical open access-screening group and he was the co-ordinator, producer and co-director of the international Underground feature film MALDOROR (2001) that has toured extensively throughout Europe and America. His highly acclaimed book ‘Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema’ was published by Wallflower Press in October 2007. 

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  • ATA: Frequency Spectrums

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    ATA: Frequency SpectrumsATA: Frequency Spectrums - Works with sound & film
    Friday, December 2, 2011, 20h, $6-$10
    Artists' Television Access
    992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
     
    John Davis and Paul Clipson
    Tashi Wada and Madison Brookshire
    Ben Bracken and John Davis
     
    Passage: a new work in sound and light for two projectors by Madison Brookshire and Tashi Wada.
     
    Madison Brookshire is a Los Angeles-based artist whose interdisciplinary work investigates modes of perception and qualities of time. He has exhibited his work widely, including a residency at theHammer Museum, solo exhibitions at Parker Jones in Culver City and Presents Gallery in Brooklyn, performances at the wulf., The Lab, Betalevel and Artists’ Television Access as well as screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Migrating Forms, Los Angeles Filmforum and REDCAT. He received his BA in cinema and philosophy from Binghamton University and his MFA in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts.
     
    Tashi Wada is a composer and performer based in San Francisco. His recent work focuses on sound perception as a basis for direct experiences of hearing. Wada has performed throughout the United States and Europe.
     
    Benjamin Bracken & John Davis present transient vibrations revealed through sound and film. Ben Bracken Is a musician and artist living in Oakland, CA exploring possibilities of echo-relocation in sound-based art. John Davis is a filmmaker and musician utilizing hand processed film and electronic music. Recent music to live film collaborations include filmmakers Lawrence Jordan, Paul Clipson and Kerry Laitala.
     
    Paul Clipson screens new films shot recently in Berlin, Zagreb, Lisbon and Geneva to dronescapes by sound artist John Davis. Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on live performances, films and installations.

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  • Mono no aware V

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    Mono no aware VMono no aware reaches its fifth edition next Decemebr 3 with an evening filled of film-only expanded cinema performances. Promoting the cinematic experience, the events include one part of live film projection and another part of live performance elements such as musical performances, dance, poetry, installations, multiple-projections and audience participation. The participating artists include, by participating order, Lindsay Mcintyre, Edward Merton Casey, Monica Baptista, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens, Joey Huertas aka Jane Public, Patricia Ordoñez, Morgan Nance, Luke Munn, Eric Ostrowski, Jodie Mack, Jasa Baka, Julia Thomas, Tyr Jami, Alex Mallis, Hunter Simpson, Theodore Rex King, Jordan Stone, Alex Cunningham and Amanda Long.

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  • Close-Up: Air Cries "Empty Water" + Decasia

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    Air Cries, "Empty Water" (Carl Brown)Close-Up: Air Cries "Empty Water" + Decasia
    Tuesday December 6th & 13th, 20h
    Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
    42-44 Pollard Row London E2 6NB

    Close-Up presents three films which use decaying and intensively altered footage to haunting effect, Carl E.Brown's Air Cries "Empty water" and Bill Morrison's Decasia. Using archival, found and original footage, each film produces an uncanny feeling that echoes dreamlike moods and textures, not only through the images depicted but also by the transformation of their vehicle: the surface of the film itself.

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