Events

  • Fragile Memories: Images of Japan

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    Young pines (Ute Aurand, 2011)SF Cinematheque in association with the Intersection for the Arts presents:
    Fragile Memories: Images of Japan
    Thursday, October 25, 2012, 19:30h
    Artists' Television Access
    992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

    Ute Aurand In Person

    September 3–November 3, Intersection for the Arts presents Lost and Found: Family Photos Swept by 3.11 East Japan Tsunami, a massive display of personal photographs recovered in the city of Yamomoto during post-tsunami clean-up in 2011, collectively displayed in an overwhelming testament to loss and perseverance. In homage and reference to this exhibition Cinematheque tonight screens Ute Aurand’s 2011 film Young Pines (Junge Kiefern), an engaged, stately and patient observance of the urban landscape, a quiet consideration on harmonious overlap between nature and culture. Filmed throughout Japan before the disasters of the tsunami and Fukushima, but edited after, Young Pines’ carries an uncanny and inspiring grace. Also screening are three recent films by Japanese filmmakers which consider similar themes, including Tomonari Nishikawa’s Tokyo—Ebisu a fragmented collage of that vibrant city’s life and motion; Makino Takashi’s Generator (with a soundtrack by Jim O’Rourke), a study in accumulation and dissolution, which, created as a response to the disaster in Fukushima, visualizes Tokyo in a toxic state of decay; and Rei Hayama’s Emblem, a quiet meditation on the fragility of landscape and life. (Steve Polta)

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  • Projektion - Situative Systeme

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    14x14 (Albert Alcoz & Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 2012)Projektion - Situative Systeme
    Sunday October 18, 2012, 20h
    kunstraum t27
    Thomasstr. 27, 12053 Berlin
    Curated by Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy

    - Feuerfaust (Thorsten Fleisch, Super 8, 1 Min, 1999)
    - DIAGRAM II (Jeanne Liotta, 16mm, 4 Min. 2012)

    Melting Intermission I (Anja Oornleden & Juan David González Monroy)

    - Silber (Jan Korthaeuer, 16mm, 8 Min, 2002)
    - 14x14 (Albert Alcoz & Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 16mm, 3 Min, 2012)
    - Her Mona (Klaus Telscher, 16mm, 1 Min, 1992)

    Melting Intermission II (Anja Oornleden & Juan David González Monroy)

    - Ritournelle (Christopher Becks & Peter Miller, 16mm, 4 Min, 2012)
    - Flexcam (Thorsten Fleisch, Super 8, 2 Min, 1998)

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  • Bozar: Hangjun Lee / Benjamin Altermatt

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    Benjamin Altermatt, Indias IndiosBozar: Hangjun Lee / Benjamin Altermatt
    Friday October 26, 20h
    Palais des Beaux-Arts
    Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles

    Two playful performances redefine the audiovisual medium in an unexpected and refreshing way. Filmmaker Hangjun Lee (South Korea) - who performed at Bozar in 2011 together with Jérôme Noetinger - is back with a piece that examines the sculptural qualities of four 16 mm projectors used as musical instruments, amplified by four guitar amps... without projecting any image. Multidisciplinary artist Benjamin Altermatt (Chile/Italy/Germany) invents an intimate and hypnotic journey built around VHS footage he shot during a trip to China, which is mixed on the spot and combined with sound recorded on audio cassettes. A monitor is the sole visual and sound source of his performance.

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  • Xcèntric: Antoni Padrós

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    Dafnis y Cloe (Antoni Padrós, 1969)Xcèntric: Antoni Padrós
    Thursday, October 25th 2012, 20h
    Sunday, October 28th 2012, 18:30h
    Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

    The 13th season of Xcèntric opens with Antoni Padrós, a Catalan underground filmmaker with a genuinely subversive, ironic, iconoclastic body of work. He is currently receiving deserved recognition from our institutions: Xcèntric included his short film Ice Cream in the programme “Del éxtasis al arrebato”, the Reina Sofia Museum has acquired his entire body of work, and his filmography has been restored by the Filmoteca de Catalunya, which has also prepared a special DVD edition with Cameo. Xcèntric is honoured to have the presence of Padrós, who selected the films in this screening, establishing a dialogue between one of his works and a key film that influenced him.

    Thursday, October 25th 2012, 20h
    - Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1945, 16 mm, 17 min)
    - Dafnis y Cloe (Antoni Padrós, 1969, 18 min) [video screening, copy courtesy of the Filmoteca de Catalunya].

    Sunday, October 28th 2012, 18:30h
    - Shirley Temple Story (Antoni Padrós, 1976, 208 min) [video screening, copy courtesy of the Filmoteca de Catalunya].
    Taking a wild pretext (Shirley Temple’s journey to Emerald Country to meet the Wizard of Oz and demand the role of Dorothy that was snatched by Judy Garland), in this fabulous camp film Padrós humorously and unceremoniously smashes the myths of Hollywood film to smithereens.

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  • Filmaktion Performance: Malcolm LeGrice & Keith Rowe

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    Malcolm LeGrice and Keith Rowe, After Leonardo 1973Filmaktion Performance: Malcolm LeGrice & Keith Rowe
    Saturday 20 October 2012, 19:30h
    Part of the series The Tanks: Art in Action
    Tate Modern

    Filmaktion is the name used by a group of filmmakers who performed together during an intense period of activity in the early 1970s. The core members – Malcolm Le Grice (b.1940), William Raban (b.1948), Gill Eatherley (b.1950) and Annabel Nicolson (b.1946) – are major figures in the development of experimental film in the UK.

    In conjunction with the Filmaktion installation in the Tanks at Tate Modern, this special live performance in The Tanks on Saturday 20 October  opens with a series of screenings by Malcolm Le Grice. With sound track provided by a live performance from AMM co-founder Keith Rowe, screenings will include Le Grice’s  After Leonardo (1973), Horror Film 1 (1971) and Threshold (1972). This event will be followed by live screenings by William Raban and Gill Eatherley.

    This event is related to the exhibition Filmaktion

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  • Think:Film – International Experimental Cinema Congress 2012

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    Think:Film
    International Experimental Cinema Congress 2012
    10.-14. October 2012
    Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg, Berlin

    Following a period of diversification of experimental forms of artistic production, it has become necessary to come up with new ways to think about film and the types of thought created by it and within it.

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    Wednesday, October 10, 2012 (All day) to Sunday, October 14, 2012 (All day)
  • Aldo Tambellini: Retracing Black

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    Black Zero, Electromedia Performance at Intermedia 68, Brooklyn Academy of Music 1968Aldo Tambellini: Retracing Black
    curated by Pia Bolognesi and Giulio Bursi with Stuart Comer
    9–14 October 2012 at The Tanks, Tate Modern
    Screening: Starr Auditorium, Saturday 13 October 18h
    Performance: Saturday 13 October 21h

    With Retracing Black, after almost fifty years, Aldo Tambellini goes back to the roots of New York’s darkest underground scene, creating a multimedia installation that originates from his experiences with the pictorial manipulation of the image and results in a reflection on the transition from video to experimental performance. In this new work, the abstract expressionism and sculptural materiality explored by the artist merge into a synaesthetic triptych, which portrays the internal collapse of the dogmas and icons of the American consumer society.

    Going back to the traditional canons of expanded cinema and multimedia environment, Retracing Black reflects on the sensory mutation of the cinematic and videographic element, subverting found footage and TV-collage practices to provide the figurative element with an absolute, definite identity.

    In addition to the Tanks installation, a screening of Tambellini's films will take place on 13 October at 18h, followed by two key performances, Black Zero (1965) and Moondial (1966), which will be re-staged on Saturday 13 October at 21h. These early examples of multimedia performance will transform the Tanks into a hypnotic and mystical environment incorporating projections, dance, live music and sound.

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  • Black Sun Cinema: Lithuanian Experimental Film

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    Earth of the Blind (Audrius Stonys, 1992)Black Sun Cinema presents
    A Programme of Lithuanian Experimental Film
    in association with Tinklai International Short Film Festival, Lithuania, and Solus Film Collective, Dublin
    Saturday 20 October 2012, 20:45h
    Triskel Christchurch Cinema, Tobin St., Cork

    Black Sun Cinema, in partnership with Triskel Christchurch, is proud to present a retrospective programme of Lithuanian experimental shorts from the ‘90s. These films, very rarely screened in Ireland, provide an eye-opening snapshot of a distinctive independent film culture in the process of defining itself.

    Much of the programme highlights a tendency towards personal, poetic and formally adventurous approaches to documentary reality. The wordless, powerfully bleak yet pictorially exquisite rural worlds evoked in The Window (Julius Ziz, 1989) and Earth of the Blind (Audrius Stonys, 1992) will appeal to admirers of Bela Tarr, while Ten Minutes Before the Flight of Icarus (Arunas Matelis, 1991) offers a charmingly quirky glimpse of an urban neighbourhood in upheaval. The Black Box (Algimantas Maceina, 1994) confronts personal and national history more directly, albeit in a visually radical fashion.

    Contrasting with the rest of the programme, the selection of hand-painted, hand-scratched films by artist August Varkalis plunges into visual abstraction: ecstatic, fast-paced cascades of pure cinema that make for intoxicating viewing.

    Black Sun is delighted to announce that renowned Lithuanian filmmaker Julius Ziz will be present to introduce the screening.

    - The Window (Julius Ziz, 1989)
    - The Black Box (Algimantas Maceina, 1994)
    - Ten Minutes Before the Flight of Icarus (Arunas Matelis, 1991)
    - Earth of the Blind (Audrius Stonys, 1992)
    - Abstract films by August Varkalis (1995-2002)

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  • Oporto apresenta #29: Voyage to the Center of the Phone Lines

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    Oporto apresenta #29: Voyage to the Center of the Phone LinesOporto apresenta #29: Voyage to the Center of the Phone Lines
    Friday, October 4th 2012, 22:30h
    Oporto, Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente, 1200-399 Lisboa

    "Voyage to the Center of the Phone Lines" by Michel Auder
    Analog video, color, sound, 53', 1993

    Voyage to the Centre of the Phone Lines borrows its title from Jules Verne’s science-fiction novel Voyage au centre de la terre from 1864, in which a German professor explores volcanic tubes that lead him to the earth’s core and to an 1860s understanding of our planet’s geological development. ‘Voyage’ usually denotes faraway travel by sea, and Auder uses ‘holiday’ images of beaches, sunsets and verandas, already stamped with that vintage VHS look, to illustrate a sound track entirely consisting of excerpts from cordless and wireless telephone conversations between unnamed, unknown people. We all know eavesdropping is supposed to be bad, but even if we put up some resistance at first we cannot help being sucked into this maelstrom (another word that Jules Verne liked) of religious and financial speculation, parental despair, gleeful psychobabble and frank erotic revelation. Auder is usually right about what captures our attention and what constitutes unadulterated human interest.

    "floating words in an echo world" - Alexandre Estrela

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