Events

  • The Complete Films of Fred Camper

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    SN (Fred Camper, 1984)The Complete Films of Fred Camper
    March 4 & April 16, 2011, 20h
    Fred Camper in Person at Both Screenings
    The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642

    White Light Cinema is extremely pleased to present these very rare public screenings of the complete films of Fred Camper. Camper has been a thoughtful and articulate writer on film for over forty years (much of his writing is available on his website) and, more recently, has been producing an astonishing body of digital artworks. His earlier filmmaking practice, however, is little known. Long out of distribution (some never in distribution), his short 16mm and Super-8mm films have not been publicly screened for decades. And this presentation of his stunning feature-length Super-8mm film SN is only its third-ever public showing. These films may not be screened again for many years, due to their irreplaceability.

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  • Courtisane Festival 2011

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    Courtisane festival logoThe Courtisane Film Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary. From March 30 to April 3, the festival of the Belgian city of Ghent is preparing a programme focusing on works radical both on the discourse and cinematographically.

    The section 'Artist in focus' has three protagonists this year: Sylvain George, Robert Fenz and Robert Beavers. Each one of them will present a selection of their own filmography and curate a programme of films by other filmmakers that have been an influence in their work. There will be also two performances of film and music with the collaborations of Sylvain George & William Parker (31 March, Vooruit) and Robert Fenz & Wadada Leo Smith (1 April, Vooruit).

    The festival opens with the premiere of disorient by Florence Aigner and Laurent Van Lancker in an 'expanded' performance version in collaboration with Sébastien Koeppel and Laszlo Umbreit. Additionally, several masterclasses and workshops, as well as a Martin Arnold installation with this pieces Shadow Cuts and Soft Palate.

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  • In Bed with James Broughton: An evening of poetry, films, and performance

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    Big JoyIn Bed with James Broughton: An evening of poetry, films, and performance
    Saturday, March 5, 2011, 20h
    San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
    800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133

    The San Francisco Art Institute is pleased to announce “In Bed With James Broughton,” an evening of poetry, films, and performance on March 5 benefitting the work-in-progress documentary Big Joy. Using the life and work of James Broughton—filmmaker, poet, teacher, wildman—as inspiration, Big Joy explores the power of art to change lives. “In Bed With James Broughton” will be a lively night featuring poetry readings and performances by Keith Hennessy, Kirk Read, Jack and Adelle Foley, Karl Cronin, William Stewart, and others; a screening of some of Broughton’s films; and a sneak-peek of excerpts from Big Joy.

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  • Play Festival 2011

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    Cipher Screen (Greg Pope)The festival of live music and cinema Play, reaches its fifth edition at Madrid's La Casa Encendida. During its two days, March 4-5, curator Andy Davies has programmed a series of sessions where film and music are the protagonists through their live creation: Daniel Barrow's animation Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry created from manipulated slides, the multiply-exposed, in-camera edited, S8 films by Paul Clipson Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (Tarentel, The Alps) , and Cipher Screen, a work for two 16mm projectors in which Greg Pope pierces the film with different tools and Lee Patterson creates the music from the projectors' sounds. Friday's session opens with a programme of short animated pieces by Jane Geiser, the "re-animator" Lewis Klahr and Martha Colburn.

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  • Portraiture in Queer Experimental Cinema

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    Dyketactics (Barbara Hammer, 1974)Portraiture in Queer Experimental Cinema
    Monday, February 28th, 19:30h
    Center for Fine Arts Screening Room (CFA 112)
    State University at Buffalo, North Campus
    Buffalo, New York 14260-6010

    Curated by Ed Halter, sponsored by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

    A selection of film and video by queer artists, spanning half a century, that looks at how various aspects of portraiture play out within a variety of approaches to experimental cinema. The program includes work by Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, Gregory Markopoulos, Su Friedrich, Barbara Hammer, Sadie Benning and others.

    - Kenneth Anger, Puce Moment, 1949, 16mm, sound, 6 mins
    - Andy Warhol, Mario Banana #1, 1964, 16mm, silent, 4 mins
    - Andy Warhol, Mario Banana #2, 1964, 16mm, silent 4 mins
    - Edward Owens, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, 1967, 16mm, silent, 9 mins
    - Gregory Markopoulos, Ming Green, 1966, 16mm, sound, 7 mins
    - Barbara Hammer, Dyketactics, 1974, 16mm, sound, 4 mins
    - Su Friedrich, Cool Hands, Warm Heart, 1979, 16mm, silent, 14 mins
    - George Kuchar, I, An Actress, 1977, 16mm, sound, 9 mins
    - Sadie Benning, If Every Girl Had a Diary, 1990, video, 8 mins
    - Glen Fogel, Endless Obsession, 2000, 16mm, sound, 6 mins

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  • Structuring Strategies: Fred Worden—'After Hours in the Cerebral Kitchen'

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    1859 (Fred Worden, 2008)Structuring Strategies: Fred Worden—'After Hours in the Cerebral Kitchen'
    Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 19h
    CalArts, Bijou Theater, 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, CA 91355

    Fred Worden has been making experimental film since the mid 1970s. His films have been shown in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, The Museum of Modern Art, The Centre Pompidou, The Pacific Film Archive, The New York Film Festival, The London Film Festival, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, The Hong Kong International Film Festival and numerous other experimental film venues. Worden’s films develop out of his interest in intermittent projection as the source of cinema’s primordial powers. How a stream of still pictures passing through a projector at a speed meant to overwhelm the eyes might be harnessed to purposes other than representation or naturalism. A cinema of pure energy, say, that bypasses the discursive mind and goes right at the body, in through the eyes, pulsing, to jigger directly the brain’s electro-chemical neural flows, seedbed of every single thought or feeling. A cinema of direct experiences where stalking the unforeseen, non-translatable is everything. Worden teaches in the Cinematic Arts Concentration at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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  • Avant-Garde Masters

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    The Cross Revolves at Sunset: Restored Experimental Film from the Academy Film Archives
    Sunday, January 23, 7:30 pm
    Introduced by Mark Toscano, Preservationist, Academy Film Archive.

    From Contemplation to Chaos: An Avant-Garde Sampler
    Saturday, January 29, 3:00 pm
    With Millicent Brower, Larry Gottheim, and Carolee Schneemann in person.

    FACE
    Sunday, February 6, 7:00pm
    16mm print restored by The Museum of Modern Art
    Dir. Andy Warhol. 1965, 66 mins.

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    Saturday, February 19, 2011 (All day) to Saturday, March 26, 2011 (All day)

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    Museum of the Moving Image - New York, United States
  • Circuit Torçat: Taller Super 8

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    Circuit Torçat: Taller Super 8Taller de Cine en Super 8
    Impartido por Albert Alcoz y Oriol Sánchez
    Dirigido a cualquier persona con inquietudes por la imagen en movimiento e interesada en los soportes fílmicos, la materialidad del soporte y sus posibilidades estéticas y conceptuales.

    Fechas: Sábado 12 y Domingo 13 de Marzo de 2011
    Dónde: CIRCUIT TORÇAT
    C/ Terol 8 Bajo 2
    Barrio de Gracia
    08012 Barcelona
    Metros: Fontana (L3); Joanic (L5)
    Más información: http://www.circuittorcat.com

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  • Punto de Vista 2011

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    Punto de Vista 2011Punto de Vista, Pamplona's documentary film festival will be held next February 22-27. As in previous editions the experimental film component of this festival keeps very strong, not only through their dedicated strand 'The Central Region', but throught their entire programme. This year's jury has among its members filmmakers Ben Russell and Naomi Uman, who will curate two special programmes. Highlights of this year's edition include the premiere of the videoletters between Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerín, the special curated programme 'The personal is political', and the latest works by Duncan Campbell, Thom Andersen, Sharon Lockhart, Patrick Keiller, John Gianvito, Marie Losier, Lee Anne Schmitt and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.

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