Events

  • Light Industry: Barbara Hammer's Audience + Cecilia Dougherty's Gay Tape: Butch and Femme

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    Barbara Hammer’s Audience

    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

  • 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: 

    Friday, September 13, 2013 - 22:00 to Saturday, September 14, 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: 

    Friday, September 13, 2013 - 22:00 to Saturday, September 14, 2013 - 21:55

  • 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).

    Dates: 

    Saturday, July 20, 2013 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    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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