Events

  • Stan Brakhage: The Pittsburgh Documents

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    UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences present
    Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood Village
    10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024

    Without question one of cinema’s most influential and prolific artists, Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) created a monumentally significant and expressive body of work that spanned 50 years and over 350 films. For five decades, Brakhage worked in a highly distinctive, individualistic vein, mining celluloid cinema and--at least in his hands--its seemingly limitless potential for the articulation of raw subjective experience and pre-linguistic vision. The Academy Film Archive has been actively preserving and restoring Brakhage’s body of work since his collection was deposited there in 2004. In a career loaded with countless visionary works, Brakhage’s The Pittsburgh Documents (often called The Pittsburgh Trilogy) are a trio of acknowledged masterworks, and represent a radical approach to the concept of a cinematic document (as opposed to documentary) rooted in subjective observation. By training his eyes and the film medium on three subjects he felt were elusive, inscrutable, even fearful in their universality, Brakhage sought to gain some empathic foothold--if not an understanding--in these realms of authority (police), illness (hospital) and death (morgue).

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    Saturday, July 20, 2013 - 19:30

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    Billy Wilder Theater - Los Angeles, United States

  • Double Your Pleasure: 16mm Films by Jennifer Reeves and MM Serra

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    The Film-Makers' Cooperative Presents
    Double Your Pleasure: 16mm Films by Jennifer Reeves and MM Serra
    Friday, June 28 2013, 20h
    Spectacle Theater
    124 S. 3rd Street, Brooklyn 11211

    Artists in attendance!

    Programme:
    - The Girl's Nervy (Jennifer Reeves, 1995)
    - Soi Meme (MM Serra, 1995)
    - Darling International (Jennifer Reeves & MM Serra, 1999)
    - Fear of blushing (Jennifer Reeves, 2001)
    - Double your pleasure (MM Serra (sound by and starring Jennifer Reeves), 2002)

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  • Independent Film Show 13th Edition

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    Independent Film Show 13th edition, an international show dedicated to experimental cinema, anticipates the annual event on Thursday 27, Friday 28 and Saturday 29 June, planning the three programs and the two expanded cinema performances on the Museo Nitsch’s terrace.

    The Independent Film Show focuses on the multiple processes that film/video-makers create to give structure to the intense relationships that exist between the devices used for projection and the interpretative participation of the audience. Past editions have often highlighted the special capabilities of experimental cinema, which does not impose a standardised view, but requires the spectator to watch with conscious application, in order to appreciate the intricate formal representations, the complex social codes, and extensive cognitive aspirations that extend beyond the screen. The immersive possibility of establishing direct contact with independent cinematic philosophies and highlighting the alternatives and innovations that subvert the logic of the standard production is the key to the approach required to access these complex visual patterns. The interference of the lights of the milieu, the position of the projectors, the reflective quality of the screen, the line of vision and its position within the field of vision contribute to the creation of the film, and it is at the moment that the viewer becomes aware of the solidity of the photons, which impress upon his gaze and envelop the body, that the cognitive process able to form complex mental structures is activated.

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  • Visual Errata + Other Bent Forms

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    Visual Errata + Other Bent Forms
    The Selected Works of Clint Enns
    Monday June 17th, 19h
    Microscope Gallery
    4 Charles Place, Brooklyn NY 11221
    Artist in person

    Microscope Gallery is very pleased to welcome visiting Canadian filmmaker Clint Enns for his first U.S. solo screening. Enns’ video works often feature glitch and circuit-bending experiments, remakes of classic avant-garde films, and bizarre appropriations. His 2012 video remake of James Benning’s film “Ten Skies”, featuring only the cloud sections, was shown as part of Microscope’s multi-program event “Now What” this January.

    Clint Enns is a video artist and filmmaker from Toronto, Ontario, whose work primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown both nationally and internationally at festivals, alternative spaces and microcinemas including Onion City, Images Festival, He has recently received a Master’s degree in Cinema and Media from York University. His writings and interviews have appeared in Millennium Film Journal, Incite! Journal of Experimental Media and Spectacular Optical. 

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  • Unconscious Archives #8: Pierre Bastien, Karel Doing, Louise Curham & Alison Blunt

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    Unconscious Archives #8: Pierre Bastien, Karel Doing, Louise Curham & Alison Blunt
    Wednesday, June 19, 20h
    Cafe Oto
    18 - 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL

    Unconscious Archives transverses noise core and vision spectacle bringing together expanded cinema and sonic propositions from London and afar.

    Pierre Bastien brings his latest work and a suitcase full of his famous mechanical orchestral machines to London in a new solo and duo performance. Karel Doing presents his alchemical poetic palindrome films and joins Bastien in a mulit-format reunion performance. And from downunder - Louise Curham illuminates us with her hand painted happenings - joined by prolific London improvisor Alison Blunt.

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  • Richard Kern Book signing & screening

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    Films by Richard Kern, introduced by the artist
    Saturday, June 15 2013, 20h
    White Flag Projects
    4568 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis, MO, 63110

    Richard Kern is a filmmaker, photographer and writer who came to underground prominence in the 1980s making erotic and experimental films featuring major personalities from the no-wave movement. His interest in extreme sex, violence, and perversion assumes a modified presence today in Shot by Kern, his erotic series for Vice Magazine.

    The artist will be signing copies of Shot by Kern, as well as introducing films of his selection. 

    Outdoor screening, free admission.

    - Shot by Kern book signing, 20h
    - Films by Kern screening, 21h

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  • Sheffield Fringe 2013 programme announced

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    The full programme for the 3rd edition of Sheffield Fringe (June 14-15) in collaboration with Bloc Projects & Bloc Studios in Sheffield has been announced. The 3rd edition of Sheffield Fringe considers the critical possibilities of film as both documentary and art. This year’s programme traces back through the film co-op movement of the 80s, and earlier experimental film in continuous dialogue with new documentary practices.

    Charlotte Ginsborg’s Over the Bones launches Sheffield Fringe 2013, as the opening salvo of a curatorial mix tape that positions artists’ film as musical. The remarkable Sheffield Media Unit archive (1984-89), affirms Sheffield as a centre of both resistance and serious play. In tribute to Michael Grigsby, Living on the Edge (1987) reveals the impact of the Thatcher era on three families, counterbalancing the exuberance Sheffield Media Unit. Urban Observations, guest curated this year by November Paynter, presents videos that work with performance, recital and gathering to share very specific and diverse tales of Istanbul and beyond. Annexinema are showing George Barber ‘s I was once involved in a shit show, Peter Kubelka’s Afrikareise and more + Live A/V performances by Neil Webb, Ron Wright, Rob Barker, Joe Moran & guests.

    BLOC PROJECTS Friday 14th June 6pm & Saturday 15th June 12-9pm, 71 Eyre Lane, Sheffield S1 4RB. Admission to all events is free.

    See the full programme here: http://sheffieldfringe.com/programmes/year-2013/

    For ease of sharing: https://www.facebook.com/sheffieldfringe

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  • (S8) 4th Mostra de Cinema Periférico

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    The 4th edition of (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, to be held next June 5-8 in A Coruña, Spain, focuses this year on Argentinian experimental cinema: several programmes, curated by Pablo Marín and Magdalena Arau, will center on the history of Argentinian experimental film (Phanton Anthology, featuring the works of Narcisa Hirsch, Horacio Vallereggio, Jorge Honik & Laura Abel or Gabriel Romano); the work of Super8 filmmakers Pablo Mazzolo, Sergio Subero and Pablo Marín; and a selection of amateur and domestic cinema. Claudio Caldini, the legendary S8 filmmaker will be present to introduce a retrospective of his films both in single channel and expanded versions, including his latest works H R Z N T (2011), Fantasmas Cromáticos (2012) and Tamil Nadu View (2010); and also to conduct a workshop on multiple projection and expanded cinema. Fernando Martín Peña and Fabio Manes, directors of the TV programme “Filmoteca, Temas de Cine” will present a selection of rarely-seen films, from early silent movies to the work of the recently deceased filmmaker Leonardo Favio. Last but not least, the section Sinais will focus on the work of Galician artists Lois Patiño and Miguel Mariño.

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  • Media City Film Festival 2013

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    The 19th edition of veteran film festival Media City begins next week (May 21-25, Windsor, Ontario) with an opening night featuring performances by CCMC (Michael Snow, John Oswald and Al Mattes) and avant-noise band Wolf Eyes. A selection of Super 8 and 16mm films by Saul Levine, who will also be part of the jury, and the Canadian premiere of James Benning's new film Stemple Pass are among its many highlights.

    The core of the festival is its competition programme, that in this edition features nearly fifty films and videos by artists such as Bruce McClure, David Gatten, Jeannette Muñoz, Kevin Jerome Everson, Mary Helena Clark, Stephen Connolly, Johann Lurf, Robert Todd and Nick Collins, to name just a few.

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