Magic Lantern Presents: Print/Process
16mm Films by J.J. Murphy, Phil Solomon, and Karl Kels
Wednesday March 20, 2013, 20h
95 Empire Black Box Theater, Providence, RI, USA

Film, tape and digital video are all subsets of cinema, much like oils, acrylic, egg tempera, spraypaint and watercolor are all included under the heading of painting. Nevertheless, while sharing the predominant qualities of what we generically call "cinema," each material has its own specific aesthetic materiality that is perhaps best revealed in the event of its own failure or deterioration. The video image becomes filled with horizontal lines of interference or static noise; digital images break down into smears of pixels and stuttering motion; similarly, film has its own special form of visual decay. In 1974, J.J. Murphy re-photographed the same minute of footage fifty times; the product of this experiment was Print Generation, a supremely structuralist work that plays at the cinema's limits of abstraction and representation both on the levels of image and sound. Rarely screened and long available only in the most faded of 16mm prints, Print Generation is shown here in a new, immaculate restoration that brings the alchemical of play of Murphy's film back to life. *Print Generation* is complemented by two other works that engage directly with the theme of generation and decay: the enigmatic *Secret Garden* by American filmmaker Phil Solomon, and *Starlings*, an early work by Austrian filmmaker/documentarian Karl Kels. Like the car dredged up from the marsh at the end of Hitchcock's *Psycho*, these pieces put film's materiality on display as a field of potentiality from which a figurative image, like the return of the repressed, may or may not emerge.

Peter Kubelka presents Monument Film
Tuesday April 9 2013, 18:30h
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1 8XT London

The Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka has been a vital and uncompromising force in cinema for more than half a century. In a body of work that lasts not much more than an hour in total, he condenses and articulates the essential qualities of analogue cinema, distinguishing film as an autonomous artform. His 1960 film Arnulf Rainer, composed only of the purest elements of light and darkness, sound and silence, remains one of the most radical achievements in film history. In response to that earlier work, his new film Antiphon was revealed in 2012 as part of Monument Film, a powerful testament to the entire medium. With two 35mm projectors situated in the auditorium, each film is screened individually, then combined as double projections, both side-by-side and superimposed upon each other. Throughout this extraordinary projection event, Peter Kubelka will discuss his theories, explaining the differences between film and digital media, and articulating his belief in the survival of cinema.

Monument Film
Lecture screening with double 35mm projection
Peter Kubelka | Austria 1960/2012 | c.90 min

Curated by Mark Webber. Presented with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.

Tickets: £11 / £8.50 concessions (BFI Members pay £1.50 less)

This performance was originally scheduled for the 56th BFI London Film Festival last October. Audience members with tickets for the original event should contact the BFI Box Office on 020 7928 3232 for an exchange.

Projektionen: Melos – Zwischen Räumen
Thursday, March 143 2012, 19:30h
kunstraum t27/Kunstverein Neukölln
Thomasstrasse 27, 12053 Berlin

LaborBerlin members Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy are teaming up once again with Deborah S. Phillips to present an evening of films and performances on Super 8 and 16mm at Kunstraum t27. The screening will accompany the exhibition “Melos – Zwischen Räumen” which includes works by LaborBerlin friends Deborah S. Philips and Inger Lise Hansen.

With performances by Andreas Gogol, Klaus Eisenlohr and Yptu Enth and films by Tomonari Nishikawa, Rose Lowder, Emmanuel Lefrant, Jodie Mack and special guests from Film-Koop Vienna, Daniela Zahlner and Magdalena Pfeifer.

Programme:
- Andruck, Superlux; Splash & Roll (Andreas Gogol, 2013, performance, 10 min.)
- Sketch film #2 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2005, Super8, 3 min)
- Les tournesols (Rose Lowder, 1982, 16mm, 3 min.)
- RGB Prater (Skizze) (Daniela Zahlner, 2013, Super8, 3 min)
- Hand Made (Magdalena Pfeifer, 2012, Super8, 3 min)
- Blits (Emmanuel Lefrant, 2006, 16mm, 6 min)
- Persian Pickles (Jodie Mack, 2012, 16mm, 3 min)
- 0.1 0.2 0.3 Intervalle (Klaus W.Eisenlohr & Yptu Enth, 2013, performance, 7 min)

Balagan presents... DIY Dystopia
Thursday March 14, 2013 19:30h
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street in Cambridge, MA USA

With the natural world teetering on the brink of multilateral catastrophe, a group of analog filmmakers have taken matters into their own hands. Through direct contact with the medium – lifting and reassembling images on the film strip – adhering waste matter to celluloid – leaving emulsion to languish in the landfill – the artists interpret physical processes that ravage our land. Their grave methods yield results of unexpected poetry, vibrancy and beauty.

Attendees of this show will also receive a special, locally-produced, collaborative zine, made available through the Papercut Zine Library!