Events

  • Luke Fowler: All Divided Selves

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    All Divided Selves (Luke Fowler, 2011)Luke Fowler: All Divided Selves
    Friday, July 27th, 19h
    Flat Time House
    210 Bellenden Road, London SE15 4BW, UK

    A lyrical collage of film about R.D. Laing completed in 2011. Using footage from the Flat Time House archive amongst multiple other sources, Luke Fowler's film focuses on one of the key characters in the history of Better Books.

    The film concentrates on archival representations of radical psychiatrist RD Laing and his colleagues as they struggled to acknowledge the importance of considering social environment and disturbed interaction in institutions as significant factors in the aetiology of human distress and suffering. RD Laing was associated with the art and poetry gatherings at Better Books and his controversial psychiatric writings and methods considerably influenced the creative practices of the artists involved at Better Books. All Divided Selves reprises the vacillating responses to these radical views and the less forgiving responses to Laing's latter career shift; from eminent psychiatrist to enterprising celebrity. A dense, engaging and lyrical collage- Fowler weaves archival material with his own filmic observations including footage from a SIGMA gathering with John Latham and others at Brazier's Park in 1964.

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  • Black Sun Cinema

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    Spare Bedroom (Frans Zwartjes, 1969)Black Sun Cinema: A Day of Experimental Film
    Sunday, August 12 2012, 13:30h
    Triskel Christchurch, Tobin St.,Cork, Ireland

    Presented in association with Triskel Christchurch, Black Sun, Cork's weirdo/outer limits music/film event, is presenting a day of unsettling experimental film, a host of rare cinematic shadows flickering mysteriously at the darker fringes of the mind. On the afternoon of Sunday August 12th, adventurous souls seeking haven from the harsh summer light will find sanctuary in Triskel’s Christchurch Cinema as three programmes of hauntingly dreamlike avant-garde visions fall through the church’s muffled darkness to take possession of all present:

    American underground legend James Fotopoulos’ feature The Nest (2003) “offers up a bleak and cryptically funny assault on suburban anomie… Fotopoulos creeps around the edges of character and drama, conjuring moods of paranoia and dread that suggest the carefully ordered routines of daily life are a kind of opiate administered by sinister forces. Shooting in harsh 16mm color, Fotopoulos renders The Nest in a typically Spartan, forbidding style that makes it seem as though he is some extraterrestrial visitor photographing humans for the first time.” (Scott Foundas, Variety) Ideal mind-warping viewing for admirers of David Lynch who think they’ve seen everything…

    Frans Zwartjes is arguably Holland’s preeminent experimental filmmaker. His highly stylised, poetically claustrophobic films achieve a unique level of sensual intimacy in their renditions of sexual and domestic tension, and voyeurism. These wordless works draw on performance art but are equally distinguished by their oneiric visuals, disconcerting editing rhythms and hypnotically minimal sound design. Once Zwartjes has caressed the surface of your eyeballs, you will never see cinema in the same way again. Black Sun will present a mini-retrospective of five of his most accomplished short films from the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

    And three of Ireland’s most uncompromising contemporary experimental filmmakers, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Dean Kavanagh and Black Sun film programmer Maximilian Le Cain will be on hand to present a series of their more disturbing short films. Strange atmospheres, tense self-portraits, troubled meditations on the ghostly power of cinema itself… Filmmaking at its most eerie and obliquely personal.

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  • Ben Rivers: Shorts

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    This Is My Land (Ben Rivers, 2006)Ben Rivers: Shorts
    Saturday August 4th, 16:10h
    Sunday August 5th, 2012 18:40h
    Thursday August 9th, 2012 18:40h
    BFI Southbank
    Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT

    This new LUX touring programme brings together five early shorts by Ben Rivers - The Coming Race; This Is My Land; A World Rattled of Habit; Origin of the Species, Ah, Liberty - which together present a series of portraits of unconventional lives - of people existing, to varying degrees, in wilderness or isolation. River's films are compassionate and elliptical, ambigious documents of both the reality of life outside urban norms and our own Romantic preconceptions of a life beyond bounds. The programme includes This Is My Land, Rivers' first portrait of Jake Williams, later the subject of Two Years at Sea.

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  • Desmontaje al día

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    ¿Dónde está el espíritu? (Oriol Sánchez, 2005)Desmontaje al día
    Programa comisariado por Eugeni Bonet
    Miércoles, 25 de Julio de 2012 a las 20h
    Cines Maldà: C/ Pi 5, 08002 Barcelona (Barrio Gótico)
    Entrada: 4€

    Hamaca regresa con el ciclo “El Vídeoarte en la Gran Pantalla” en los Cinemes Maldà de Barcelona, que inauguramos el próximo miércoles 25 de Julio a las 20h con un programa comisariado por Eugeni Bonet.

    Programa:
    - El fin de las imágenes (Raúl Bajo, 2008)
    - Dreamtime (Félix Fernández, 2008)
    - Cine Doré (Diana Larrea, 2004)
    - ¿Dónde está el espíritu? (Oriol Sánchez, 2005)
    - Mira el árbol (Fernando Baños, 2009)
    - Dramatis Personae (LABORATORIUM, 2005)
    - La cosa nuestra (María Cañas, 2006)
    - Vigila, te estamos sonriendo (Rogelio López Cuenca, 2008)
    - The Homogenics (Gerard Freixes, 2010)
    - Send Me A Copy (Albert Alcoz, 2011)
    - Valors esperats: 2 + 1 = < f (x) > = f (x) ² (x) dx 2 + 2 (Benet Rossell, 1978/2006)
    - Virtual Nothing (Joan Leandre & Archivos Babilonia, 2011)

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  • Universal Studio Presents: The Loitering Presence of a Rational Actor

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    Universal Studio Presents: The Loitering Presence of a Rational Actor
    July 23 - August 5, 2012, 15-22h
    163 Eldridge St., New York, NY.

    Imagine a game with two actors, both accomplices in a crime. Each one is placed in a separate cell and both are given the option of cooperating or defecting. To determine the cause of their actions, the observing agent might try and analyze the goals or objectives, the alternatives, the consequences and choices. If both defect, they lose or gain very little, but not as much as the "cheated" actor whose cooperation is not returned. The actors sit and wait. Different methods may be used to tell this story or give an account of the event, whether true or fictitious. The observer sits and listens.

    The Loitering Presence of a Rational Actor is a two-week screening program featuring eleven artists working with film and video. A single work will be screened continuously for eight hours each day. Walk-in visitors will be able to sit and spend time viewing the work in its entirety from whatever point of entry. Textual support material will be available. Sometimes the artist will be present.

    Participating Artists:
    Mauricio Arango, Johanna Billing, Ergin Çavusoglu, Tamar Guimarães, Raymond Taudin Chabot, Simon Gush, Edward Kihn, Wojciech Kosoma, Mark Lewis, collectif_fact, Annelore Schneider & Claude Piguet

    Organized by Mike Crane and the Automatic Moving Co.

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  • ex•pose: Peter Bo Rappmund

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    Psychohydrography (Peter Bo Rappmund, 2010)ex•pose: Peter Bo Rappmund
    June 10-October 7, 2012
    Laguna Art Museum
    307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
    Film Screening and Q&A with Peter Bo Rappmund Thursday, July 19, 2012
    University of California, Irvine
    McCormick Screening Room at the Humanities Gateway Building

    ex*pose is a new contemporary art program curated by Grace Kook-Anderson. Kook-Anderson is the curator of exhibitions at Laguna Art Museum and specializes in contemporary art. ex*pose will feature rotating exhibitions focusing on one emerging artist or mid-career artist at a time. The program aims to present a diverse range of artists working in all mediums and rooted in a conceptual foundation, and will encourage participating artists to take the opportunity to create new work.

    Peter Bo Rappmund (b. 1979) works in film, video, photography, and sound. His process records the natural changes in the landscape, covering much geographical ground-from the flow of water from the Sierra Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in Psychohydrography (2010), to the erratic border between the United States and Mexico in Tectonics (2012). Bo Rappmund creates sporadic rhythms and time-lapse sequences, producing a visually uncanny sensation from even the most banal landscapes.

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  • Private Territory

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    Place for Landing (Shambhavi Kaul, 2010)Private Territory is a program of films on 16mm and video that will originate in Boston and travel to several Northern European cities between July 18th and August 19th. Inspired by the curator Mariya Nikiforova's voyage from her current home in Boston to her native home in Saint Petersburg, the program was collected around the ideas of home, interiority and self-reflection.

    Like Marcel Proust’s light-tight, cork-lined self-imposed prison from which he composed brilliant reflections of contemporary society, a sealed-off space can be a haven of creativity, where the artist’s relation to the outside world becomes more focused. In the case of filmmaking, the magical transformation from inquiry to clarity occurs in such a space – the light-tight film chamber, the camera obscura, where the artist’s real or imaginary voyages are inscribed with light. For the audience member, the intimacy of the cinema allows for his or her imagination to be activated, unhindered by distractions or social inhibitions. To introduce these three private spaces of the imagination, bypassing superficial cultural differences in the process, is the aim of this travelling film program.

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  • Light Industry: Nathaniel Dorsky + Susan Howe

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    Alaya (Nathaniel Dorsky, 1987)Light Industry: Nathaniel Dorsky + Susan Howe
    Tuesday, July 24,19:30h
    155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY

    One of America’s preeminent contemporary poets, Susan Howe has published a series of writings, since the 1970s, that combine autobiography and historical research—on such topics as Emily Dickinson, Charles S. Peirce, and the 17th century utopian sect The Labadie Tract. In addition to their roles as scholarship and memoir, Howe's works are also notable for their highly idiosyncratic page design, frequently involving complex typography, line placement, and other visual patterning that point to the influence of her initial training as a painter. Identified with the Language poets early in her career, Howe has created a body of essays and poetry that invoke deep emotional resonance while operating at the highest levels of formal experimentation.

    For this event at Light Industry, Howe will read selections from her writing, chosen with the work of filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky in mind, particularly Devotional Cinema, his series of lectures on the possibility of film as a meditative, curative and transcendent experience. The reading will be followed by a screening of Dorsky’s Alaya, a silent study of grains of sand, captured from a multitude of viewpoints, that transforms its relatively simple subject matter into a mesmerizing, ever-shifting landscape.

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