Events

  • Vertical Cinema

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    As part of the Kontraste Festival 2013

    You hear it everywhere: Cinema is tipping over – its epic and dramatic forms are spilling over into television, avant-garde and experimental films have fled to the galleries, and all the images that once belonged to it are now available everywhere, anytime. At the Austrian Film Museum, we tend to refrain from such sweeping and simple-minded swan songs. For this very reason, we are honoured to participate in Vertical Cinema – a project committed to taking one step at a time. Instead of trying to tip cinema in its entirety into the digital netherworld, this project is content with just tipping the screen – observing how an artform changes if you respectfully chafe at its edges.’ – Alexander Horwath, Director of the Austrian Film Museum

    What we usually identify as the indisputable ‘temple of film’, the Cinema, is not really a given, especially not in the realm of experimental cinematic arts. Yet this is somehow sidelined in the process of re-thinking the possibilities of cinematic experience, mostly because the architectural frame is already there, if only as a convention established a long time ago within the theatrical arts. Actually, the history of experimental cinema and the art of the moving image suggests that the space might very well be the crucial aspect of the total audiovisual experience – something one should always question and take into consideration when producing a work for audiovisual, sensory cinema.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 21:00 to Sunday, October 13, 2013 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche - Krems an der Donau, Austria
  • ACF Cineclub: Michaela Grill

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    The ACF´s Cineclub presents a selection of works by Michaela Grill, one of Austria´s most prominent exponents in digital art. Her videos are a skillful synergy between image and sound and deal with the question of cinematic perception and its reduction into abstract forms.

    Grill´s interest lies not in the faithful reproduction of reality, but she focuses on the potential of its manipulation. Born in 1971 in Styria, Michaela Grill studied in Vienna, Glasgow and London. Since 1999 she has produced various film and video works, sound installations, live visuals and performances. Apart from her artistic work Grill organized the festival “What´s Up Vienna! What´s Up Montréal”, which took place in Winnipeg and Vienna and acts as curator for various films. In recent years much of her work has been screened at the Austrian Film Festival Diagonale. In 2010 she received the “outstanding artist award” in the category avant-garde film by the ministry of education, art and culture in Austria.

    A brief discussion with Michaela Grill will follow the screening of her work.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 19:00 to Friday, October 4, 2013 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Austrian Cultural Forum London - London , United Kingdom
  • Kino B: Contemporary Cinema by Berlin-based Artists

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    Curated by Caroline Koebel for Aurora Picture Show

    Kino B initiates viewers into the swarm of moving images made thus far in the 2010s by Berlin-based artists. Sylvia Schedelbauer’s Sounding glass, the stunning and astounding experimental short about vision, history, memory, and war that won accolades at Ann Arbor and Oberhausen, centers the outwardly spiraling program. The other projects—curated in situ during a research trip to Berlin—include film, video and installation (transposed to single-channel projection) by Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, Harun Farocki, Isabella Gresser, Bernd Lützeler, Anna Marziano, Deborah S. Phillips, Michael Poetschko, and Daniel Steegman Mangrané. Chosen for their individual merits and seemingly unrelated in their disparateness, the works nonetheless share a command of cinema’s potential for experientially transformative critical reflection. Each title, in its own way, acts as an experimental essay on the world as it can be encountered, engaged and repositioned so as to enable a dialogue between self (artist) and others (viewers) on that world.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, October 19, 2013 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Aurora Picture Show - Houston, United States
  • One Minute Volume Seven

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    One Minute Volume Seven curated by Kerry Baldry will screen at De La Warr Pavilion as part of a special Dear Serge event, during the Coastal Currents Arts Festival, on Saturday 28th September from 2pm - 9pm in the auditorium projected large on a loop.

    One Minute Volume 7 includes work by: John Smith, Rose Butler, Tony Hill, Steven Ball, Alexander Costello, Leister/Harris, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Louisa Minkin, Claire Hope, Max Hattler, Guy Sherwin, Steven Woloshen, Lynn Loo, Lumiere and Son, Tansy Spinks, Gary Peploe and Peter Nutley, Eva Rudlinger, Michael Szpakowski, Zhel (Zeljko Vukicevic) , Matthias Kispert, Stuart Pound, Sellotape Cinema, Alex Pearl, My Name Is Scott, Kerry Baldry, Esther Johnson, Marty St. James, Nicki Rolls, Katherine Meynell, Chris Paul Daniels, Riccardo Iacono, Edwin Rostron, Martin Pickles, Grant Petrey, Annabel Dover, Kelvin Brown

    Dates: 

    Saturday, September 28, 2013 - 14:00 to Sunday, September 29, 2013 - 20:55

    Venue: 

    De La Warr Pavilion - Bexhill on Sea, United Kingdom
  • European Expanded Cinema

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    Expanded cinema represents an intersection of hybrid and performative audiovisual practices that have met a reupdate after the 2000s in the field of contemporary art and experimental cinema. The History and Aesthethics of Cinema Section at the University of Lausanne and the research project HES-SO Cinema exposé at ECAL organize at the Sputnik Cinema (Geneva), 27 September 2013, a study day and evening performance on these artistic manifestations. The expanded cinema is at the intersection of the areas of independent film, performance, experimental music, contemporary dance, poetry and visual art installation, while deploying in places the mass culture.

    With the occasion of this study day, there will be an opportunity to trace the expanded cinema performances that are deployed in Europe and regroup on a theoretical plan the visual and hearing devices mobilized by these expanded artistic practice, taking as case studies in Switzerland, Italy, France and Britain. We thus separate from current studies on this phenomenon, which mainly focus on the American scene. The challenge is to confront theoretical issues in artistic practices, crossing lectures by academics, curators and artists in live performances with film.

    Organized by Section d’histoire et esthétique du cinéma, 
    Université de Lausanne, Cinéma exposé, HES-SO / ECAL

    Dates: 

    Friday, September 27, 2013 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Cinéma Spoutnik - Genève, Switzerland
  • Operación Rewrite: Performance

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    A collaborative project by Esperanza Collado and Maximilian Le Cain.

    The project Operation Rewrite started in January 2011 as an online video work in which both artists contributed a number of pieces of 45 seconds according to a set of rules, of which the most important was that a third of each video should be black screen. This peculiarity - the fundamental presence of negative spaces as expropriation, displacement of meaning and projection of thought- became the focus of the project, which soon expanded its activities to other areas of development, such as installation and performance, thanks to a grant from the MUSAC Artistic Creation. The film concept we examine in and out of the film medium is continuously reevaluated, so that perception and projection technology, as well as the articulation of signs, the body, the materiality of film and domestic consumer goods are part of our work. The project explores the mechanisms of editing, suspension and interruption understood as associating principles that connect to the movies with the act of reading. As the project progresses, certain objects, images and actions are repeated and reconfigured, gaining resonance and meaning. Operation Rewrite occupies an area between dreams, film and mundane ritual.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 20:00 to Friday, September 13, 2013 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    MUSAC - León, Spain
  • Experimental Film Society: Rouzbeh Rashidi & Maximilian Le Cain

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    Experimental Film Society is a creative organization founded in Tehran (Iran) in 2000, dedicated to producing and distributing low-budget independent and experimental films, from a dozen filmmakers and artists scattered around the globe. The session will consist of a sample of recent work by its most prolific members: Rouzbeh Rashidi, founder and promoter of the institution, and Maximilian Le Cain, honorary member and exponent of contemporary Irish experimental film. The duo will attend the session and questions from the audience after the screenings.

    Filmmakers in attendance.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 20:00 to Friday, September 6, 2013 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    MUSAC - León, Spain
  • Light Industry: Barbara Hammer's Audience + Cecilia Dougherty's Gay Tape: Butch and Femme

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    Light Industry presents a double-bill of sapphic autoethnography from the 1980s, featuring work by pioneering lesbian artists Barbara Hammer and Cecilia Dougherty.

    Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm diary of audience reactions at retrospectives of Hammer’s work in San Francisco, London, Toronto, and Montreal in the early 1980s bears none of the distinctive visual flourishes and essayistic form one usually finds in her filmmaking. Instead, it comes closer to the original ideal of cinéma vérité as seen in Chronicle of a Summer; informed by the consciousness-raising groups of the feminist movement, the artist herself acts as a catalyst for discussion, rather than fly-on-the-wall observer. Today, Audience serves as an invaluable historical archive, providing quick but complex portraits of lesbian scenes in different cities and countries: the San Francisco women are bold and raucous, treating Hammer like a celebrity; the London crowd more reserved and tentative; the Canadians politely critical after initial hesitation. It also functions as a testament to the power of Hammer herself as a figure in lesbian culture, showing how fully she engages audiences to incite new forms of discourse about representation.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Light Industry - New York, United States
  • AVANT Goes Live

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    AVANT Goes Live
    13-14 september 2013
    Sally Golding, John Hegre, Sami van Ingen, Petri Kuljuntausta, Henri Lindström, Greg Pope, Els van Riel.

    AVANT Goes Live presents film performances. Unique, site-specific actions in which the film material and film projectors are an essential and active part of the moving image event.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 22:00 to Friday, September 13, 2013 - 21:55
  • AVANT Goes Live

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    AVANT Goes Live
    13-14 september 2013
    Sally Golding, John Hegre, Sami van Ingen, Petri Kuljuntausta, Henri Lindström, Greg Pope, Els van Riel.

    AVANT Goes Live presents film performances. Unique, site-specific actions in which the film material and film projectors are an essential and active part of the moving image event.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 22:00 to Friday, September 13, 2013 - 21:55

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