Events

  • Directors Lounge: Steven Ball - Travelling Practice

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    Directors Lounge: Steven Ball - Travelling PracticeDirectors Lounge: Steven Ball - Travelling Practice
    Digital video works 2003 - 2010
    Thursday, 27 Oct. 2011, 21 h
    Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

    These works travel near and far, across physical and virtual space using material collected en route. Steven Ball's video work is radically contemporary in its appearance. He generally uses his own camera footage, his own voice as text, and with it a different layer of discursive material. His audio-visual material appears to be straight, clear and sharp, but the themes the artist is concerned with are less easy to encompass. In very short it may possibly be described as an interest in landscape and the politics of its reproduction.

    It may not be immediately obvious that Steven Ball's work has been much influenced by his experiences in Australia. He lived in Melbourne for 12 years from 1988 to 2000, where he was a very active member of the local art and super-8 film scene. Upon returning to live in London, he made another decisive move to the then "new medium" of digital video. Another idea he brought in his luggage was the intellectual debate around native Australian thinking and the respect for traditional beliefs and myths. Ball's critical reflection on the seemingly unquestionable "truths" of the Western world may be related to this discussion.

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  • Plenty 12: Dichtung und Wahrheit

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    Dichtung und Wahrheit (Peter Kubelka, 2003)Plenty 12: Dichtung und Wahrheit
    Tuesday November 1st, 2011 19h
    Event Gallery, 96 Teesdale Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PU

    Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and truth)
    Peter Kubelka, Austria, 2003, 16mm, colour, silent, 13 minutes

    “Dichtung und Wahrheit contains collected pieces from publicity films with a common element: they show actors before they start and then begin to play what they are directed to represent. Repeated ready-made takes create cycles of symbolic significance, glorified glimpses of the contemporary human condition: the beauty from a hair conditioner, courting and insemination by chocolate-feeding, labourless birth onto a varnished floor, animal and inanimate companions. It was my aim not to shape the found material perfectly into an unambiguous message but to preserve the full richness of archaeological information. My point of view has changed from the contemporary artist into an observer looking into the distant past." - Peter Kubelka

    The screening series Plenty proposes a new way of looking at artists’ films by showing only a single work, regardless of its duration. Each film is given the freedom to unfold on its own terms, and the viewer is given the time and space to consider it. Selected by Mark Webber. The Brief Habits exhibition programme at E:vent is curated by Shama Khanna with support from Arts Council England and the Austrian Cultural Forum.

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  • Kinema Nippon Presents Nippon Re-Read I & II

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    Shinonome Omogo Ishizuchi (Shiho Kano, 2008)A spectrum of experimental moving image works from Japan, ranging from late 60s to contemporary works, are presented in Kinema Nippon’s two-part program. Although varying greatly in their formal and aesthetic concerns, the works all rigorously reexamine the everyday through their respective experiments and innovations in their medium.

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    Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 20:00 to Friday, October 21, 2011 - 19:55

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    Echo Park Film Center - Los Angeles, United States

  • Feminism and Lesbian Self Representation in Experimental Cinema

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    Barbara HammerFeminism and Lesbian Self Representation in Experimental Cinema
    Conference with Barbara Hammer, Elisabeth Lebovici and Stuart Comer
    Thusrday October 20th, 16h
    Auditorium du Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
    As part of FIAC 2011. Presented by Koch Oberhuber Wolff, Berlin

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    Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 16:00 to Friday, October 21, 2011 - 15:55

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    Auditorium du Grand Palais - Paris, Francia

  • Ann Arbor Film Festival 50th: Retrospective Screening #2

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    The man who could not see far enough (Peter Rose, 1981)Ann Arbor Film Festival 50th: Retrospective Screening #2
    Space exploration
    curated by Mark Toscano (in person)
    Thursday, October 20th, 19:30h
    Michigan Theater
    603 East Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, 48104 Michigan

    The AAFF 50th: Retrospective Screening Series continues with a program of short archival films selected and presented by guest curator Mark Toscano. Film preservationist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Toscano curates a selection of rare and influential films from the Ann Arbor Film Festival's 50 years of exhibition history, including recently restored works from the Academy Film Archive.

    Films in the program include:
    - Dialectic definitions (Dana Hodgdon, 1977, 8 min.)
    - Grain graphics (Dana Plays, 1978, 6 min.)
    - Iota (Carolyn Faber, 1998, 6 min.)
    - Roseblood (Sharon Couzin, 1974, 8 min.)
    - Xfilm (John Schofill, 1968, 14 min.)
    - What ignites me, extinguishes me (François Miron, 1990, 9 min.)
    - The man who could not see far enough (Peter Rose, 1981, 33 min)

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  • Conversations at the Edge: blue mantle

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    blue mantle (Rebecca Meyers, 2010)Conversations at the Edge: blue mantle by Rebecca Meyers
    Thursday, October 20, 18h
    Gene Siskel Film Center
    164 N. State, Chicago, IL, USA

    Rebecca Meyers in person!

    In her nimble, intimately-observed films, Cambridge-based filmmaker Rebecca Meyers illuminates the uncanny and exquisite in the everyday. lions and tigers and bears (2006) seeks out urban wildlife–from spiders and pigeons to bronze lions and chrome-plated jaguars; night side (2008) captures a wintry twilight of street lamp halos and solitary animals.  Shot along the Massachusetts coast, Meyers’ latest film is a haunting ode to the sea.  Combining historical accounts of ocean travel and disaster with images of its vast, roiling expanse, blue mantle (2010) meditates on humanity’s attempts to conquer the deep and reflects on its role as a metaphor and passageway to the unknown. This evening, Meyers presents these and a selection of earlier works, including glow in the dark (2002) and things we want to see (2004). Rebecca Meyers, 2002- 2010, USA, 16mm, ca. 65 min plus discussion.

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