Events

  • Microscope Gallery - Independence Returns

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    Microscope Gallery - Independence ReturnsIndependence Returns
    September 9 to October 2, 2011
    Opening Friday September 9, 18-21h w/ live projections & performances
    featuring works by:
Peggy Ahwesh, Michel Auder, Agnes Bolt, Martha Colburn, Raul Vincent Enriquez, Bradley Eros, James Fotopoulos, Su Friedrich, Andrew Lampert, Jonas Mekas, Allison Somers, and Nick Zedd

    INDEPENDENCE, Microscope Gallery’s inaugural exhibit, returns to kick off our second year with an exciting line up of new works by emerging and internationally recognized artists. All of the artists have previously exhibited or screened at Microscope and some will also be featured in the upcoming season. With nine exhibitions and over seventy screenings and performances behind us, our focus continues to be on presenting film, video, sound, performance and other time-based artists of uncompromising artistic vision.

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  • Gate Shock: New and Rare Films by Luther Price

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    Meat (Luther Price, 1990-2)White Light Cinema Presents
    Gate Shock: New and Rare Films by Luther Price
    With Luther Price in Person!
    Saturday, September 17, 2011, 19h
    The Nightingale
    1084 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

    White Light Cinema is pleased to present the second program (we must like him!) of work by acclaimed experimental filmmaker Luther Price this year – this time with Price in person, to introduce and discuss his work.

    For more than twenty-five years, Boston-area filmmaker has been creating a raw and visceral body of work that challenges, infuriates, shocks, fascinates, and, sometimes, soothes viewers who have think they’ve seen it all.

    His is a gritty cinema: initially made in the intimate Super-8 format and now mostly in 16mm. It is a handcrafted cinema, with dozens of splices (which seem to want to fly apart at any moment), decayed and distressed footage (buried in the ground), and hand-painted frames (which shed a fine dust when projected).

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  • Hackney Film Festival Experimental Performance Event

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    Hackney Film Festival ExperimentalHackney Film Festival Experimental Performance Event
    September 16th 2011, 20h
    Cafe OTO
    18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, E8 3DL London

    Expanding on last year's debut festival, HFF's events programme branches to experimental film and video works with a special collaborative performance event. HFF and LUX have co-curated a selection of visual and sound artists. Three duos will perform together for the first time, premiering brand new works celebrating experimentation in live moving image and sound.

    The Hackney Film Festival is a not-for-profit organisation and a collective of local filmmakers and artists. Our aim is to create a rich film culture within the London borough of Hackney, by creating a platform for local filmmakers and audio-visual artists to have their work showcased to the community and the wider audience of London. The Hackney Film Festival has been established for the benefit of the public through an annual event of film screenings, Q&As, live audio-visual performances and workshops.

    Line-up
    Heather Phillipson & Matt Hammond
    Lucy Parker & Tom White
    Jenna Collins & Mark Peter Wright

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  • Urban Space Double Feature Film Program - Klaus W. Eisenlohr

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    Klaus W. Eisenlohr - Urban Space Double Feature Film ProgramUrban Space Double Feature Film Program - Klaus W. Eisenlohr
    Thursday September 1st, 19h
    Lexia in Berlin, Belziger Str. 25, 10823 Berlin
    studios 2nd floor, entrance from the back yard

    Lexia in Berlin presents:

    Klaus W. Eisenlohr - Urban Space Double Feature Film Program

    - Slow Space, 16mm, 72 min
    - Stadtrandzone Mitte, 16mm/digital video, EN subtitled 43 min

    Klaus W. Eisenlohr who is instructor for photography at Lexia in Berlin will present two films. The films are related to each other and to the questions of public space in the cities of Chicago, IL and Hannover, Germany. Both films are film essays that take the format of experimental film in order to illuminate different questions the artist has in relation to architecture, urban developments and the relations of the human body with architecture. Slow Space shows glass architecture in Chicago and discusses the issue of dissapearing public space, whereas Stadtrandzone Mitte, Center of Urban Periphery, was shot on urban plazas in the city of Hannover showing performing artists who interfere with those places and the people passing through.

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  • Light Industry at Film Forum: Black Audio Film Collective

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    Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah/Black Audio Film Collective, 1986)Light Industry at Film Forum: Black Audio Film Collective
    Tuesday, August 30th, 19h
    Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, New York, NY

    - Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah/Black Audio Film Collective, 16mm, 1986, 60 mins)

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    Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 19:00 to Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 18:55

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    Film Forum - New York, United States
  • Media Maven: Mini-Retrospective with Barbara Hammer

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    Optic Nerve (Barbara Hammer, 1985)Media Maven: Mini-Retrospective with Barbara Hammer
    Friday, September 2, 2011 - 19:30
    Rice Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Bldg, The Banff Centre
    All tickets $15

    Explore the work of visual artist, filmmaker, and author Barbara Hammer - whose prolific career spans four decades and includes more than 80 films. 

    Hammer is hosting this public event to present a synopsis of her films created over four decades before her upcoming Tate Modern Retrospective in London, UK, in February 2012. She will select films from each decade (1960-2010) of her career, showing her movement from the early body-centered lesbian/feminist work of the '60s and '70s through the landscapes of the '80s, into the identity politics of the '90s, and finally issues of beauty and mortality in 2000 and beyond.   She will also read selections from her new book, HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life, a memoire and essay collection replete with dozens of unique photographs published a year ago. The book has won both the Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Nonfiction Writing, and the Lambda Literary Award for Memoire and Autobiography.

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  • Temenos 2012

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    Eniaios - Cycle V (Gregory Markopoulos)Temenos 2012
    June 29-July 1, 2012, Lyssaraia, Greece

    The premiere of the sixth, seventh, and eighth orders of Gregory J. Markopoulos's final and culminating film, ENIAIOS, will take place at the Temenos site near Lyssaraia in Arcadia from June 29 through July 1, 2012.   The first five of the twenty-two film orders of ENIAIOS were presented at the same site in 2004 and 2008 to a group of spectators who had traveled from Europe, North & South America and Australia especially for the event. Screenings of ENIAIOS at the Temenos site will continue at intervals as the restoration and printing of the film moves forward.

    Markopoulos wished to create a deeply personal and rewarding cinematic experience for his spectators. He chose the site near Lyssaraia, birthplace of his father, for its natural beauty and conceived the Temenos as a viewing space uniquely in harmony with the film as an instrument of philosophical and psychological revelation.

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  • Light Industry at Film Forum: Black Audio Film Collective

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    Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah/Black Audio Film Collective, 1986)Light Industry at Film Forum: Black Audio Film Collective
    Tuesday, August 30th, 19h
    Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, New York, NY

    - Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah/Black Audio Film Collective, 16mm, 1986, 60 mins)

    In light of the recent waves of social unrest in Britain, we have decided to present a screening of Black Audio Film Collective's seminal essay film Handsworth Songs, which takes the 1985 Birmingham riots as its point of departure.

    "The collective's key work, Handsworth Songs (1986), is a succinct articulation of the dialectic of crisis and difference, and a critical primer - in artistic terms - of transnational post-colonialism. Though Handsworth Songs is an analytical essay on the cultural conditions under which young black men and women in Britain lived, and the racist policing tactics directed against them, the film, produced for Channel Four, did not merely reflect upon the structural violence of Thatcherism. In the aftermath of the protests in Handsworth, the film inhabits a different order of things: it is as much about elsewhere as about Britain.

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