Events

  • Perímetro: Sally Golding - Unconscious Archives

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    Sally Golding combines film projection, lighting and sonic composition to create performances and installations. Golding has developed works where she projects films directly onto her body and harnesses the audience’s reflections, creating live cine-sculptures and interactions. Photographic compositions printed as optical soundtracks and decomposed uprooted vinyl library music, neatly situate Golding’s work at the crossroads of science and superstition, philosophy and pulp. Golding’s projects thread between expanded cinema and media art, curation and audiovisual archiving evolving a practice of ‘hacked cinema’.

    Golding curates the expanded cinema and sound art series Unconscious Archives (London), and is co-curator and co-founder of OtherFilm (Australia) dedicated to experimental, expanded and other forms of art.

    Dates: 

    Friday, October 31, 2014 - 20:00 to Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Centro de Cultura Digital - Mexico D.F., México
  • Light and Sound Machines - Performance Projection

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    Participants will cut and splice sonic compositions from existing sound film and create handmade optical sound. Handmade film techniques can be applied to create image to compliment or juxtapose the sound compositions. Participants will then develop ways of playing and interacting with the 16mm film projector - practicing projection manipulations and using devices which interfere with light and sound. At the end of the workshop participants will play solo or as group to unleash expanded projection and aural improvisations. Strips of sound film will be provided, however participants are encouraged to bring additional devices such as toy refracting lenses and pop filters.

    Facilitated by Sally Golding

    Dates: 

    Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 10:00 to Friday, October 31, 2014 - 09:55

    Venue: 

    Cine Tonalá - México D.F., Mexico
  • Sight Unseen presents Jesse Malmed: Untitled (Just Kidding)

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    Drawing on the history of avant-garde moving image culture, conceptual poetics, ecstatic improvisation, dense wordplay and humor, Jesse Malmed makes art using moving images, text, performance, installation and the overlaps and gaps thereof. These works are conceptually engaged, language-intensive and visually mesmerizing.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, November 9, 2014 - 19:00 to Monday, November 10, 2014 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Terrault Contemporary - Baltimore, United States
  • Mary Woronov, Warhol Superstar: The Chelsea Girls

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    At the majestic Castro Theatre, San Francisco Cinematheque presents The Chelsea Girls, Andy Warhol’s sprawling parody of the Hollywood melodrama. Inspired by wide-screen cinema, this enormous double-projected camp classic simultaneously screens scenes from the decadent and desperate downtown lives of Warhol’s art world entourage, in garish color and gritty black and white. Mary Woronov appears in her debut role as Hanoi Hannah, interrogating a humiliated cast of captured GI Joes (portrayed by Ultra Violet and International Velvet) with other outrageously improvised “performances” by Nico, Eric Emerson, Brigid Polk, filmmaker Marie Menken and the one and only Pope Ondine. Soundtrack features a rare live recording of the Velvet Underground.

    Mary Woronov in person

    Dates: 

    Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 19:00 to Friday, November 7, 2014 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Castro Theatre - San Francisco, United States
  • (Un)Fixed Terra Firma: Analog Films from Artist-Run Labs

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    Celluloid-based filmmaking is alive and well in Europe, thanks to a network of film labs dedicated to both the preservation of technology and cinematic experimentation! This two-night program on October 27th and 28th features work from three of these cooperatives: L'Abominable in La Courneuve, France; Labor Berlin in Berlin, Germany; and Labo Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium.

    While the artists associated with these labs produce work in a variety of styles, the films selected for these two evenings are similar in that they demonstrate extremes of the photographic process. In Mahine Rouhi and Olivier Fouchard's Tahousse, and Emmanuel Lefrant’s Parties visible et invisible d'un ensemble sous tension, filmed landscapes are manipulated in color and texture toward otherworldliness and abstraction respectively. In Els van Riel's Gradual Speed, winner of the Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental at the 2014 Anna Arbor Film Festival, the image in each vignette appears through time much like a photograph developing while the hum and crackle of vibrating dust erupts on the optical track.

    Dates: 

    Monday, October 27, 2014 - 19:00 to Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 18:55
    Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 19:00 to Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Northwest Film Center - Portland, United States
  • San Francisco Cinematheque Art Auction & Benefit

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    Please join us at the Center for New Music for a special reception and silent art auction from 7pm to 10pm—including fabulous food, libations and music from DJ Keith Slogan with many artists and filmmakers in person—in celebration and support of San Francisco Cinematheque, our artists and our upcoming 54th year of exhibiting cutting-edge avant-garde film and video art!

    Over 50 international, national and regional artists have contributed artworks to this year’s stellar exhibition of drawings, paintings, photography, collage and multi-media installations. We are proud to feature work by Miya Ando, Kim Anno, Craig Baldwin, Bonnie Banks, Tommy Becker, Gina Borg, Nate Boyce, Tim Buckwalter, Brian Caraway, Deric Carner, Alexander Cheves, Joshua Churchill, Paul Clipson, Bill Daniel, John Davis, Nathaniel Dorsky, Veronica De Jesus, Lauren Douglas, Jeanne C. Finley + John Muse, Maria Forde, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, Brynda Glazier, Mayumi Hamanaka, Jeff Hantman, Lynn Hershman, Carrie Hott, Lawrence Jordan, Miranda July, Kevin Killian, Kadet Kuhne, Kerry Laitala, Sarah Jane Lapp, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Walter Logue, Terri Loewenthal, Jodie Mack, Anne McGuire, Kim Miskowicz, Grace Rosario Perkins, Carissa Potter, Kathleen Quillian, Dick Ramsey, Amy Rathbone, Gwenaël Rattke, Michael Robinson, Jeremy Rourke, Alexander Stewart, Chris Thorson, Mark Wilson, Vanessa Woods, Karen Yasinsky and more.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, November 15, 2014 - 19:00 to Sunday, November 16, 2014 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Center for New Music - San Francisco, United States
  • no.w.here's 10th birthday at the ICA

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    Cornerhouse Artist Film presents the special compilation of artist film to celebrate no.w.here’s 10th birthday. A unique space for artist film and moving image based in East London, no.w.here has bespoke film equipment not available anywhere else in the UK and is a vital production space for artists to innovate and experiment. 

    This screening includes work by artists Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty, James Holcombe, Ben Gwilliam, Hang Jun Lee, Charlotte Prodger, James Richards and Vicky Smith. Set up Karen Mirza and Brad Butler in 2004, no.w.here also presents a year round programme of events, screenings, workshops, schools education, residencies, studios and publications. This project has been developed with the support of Film Hub North West Central, part of the BFI's Film Audience Network.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, November 16, 2014 - 12:00 to Monday, November 17, 2014 - 11:55

    Venue: 

    Institute of Contemporary Arts - London, United Kingdom
  • Jerusalem In My Heart - Espace en Cours (Paris)

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    With performances occurring 1-3 times per year, no two Jerusalem In My Heart events have ever been the same: configurations have ranged from 2 to 24 participants, with varying degrees of theatrical stage action alongside a film/video component. Jerusalem In My Heart currently exists around the core of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh carrying musical duties and Montreal filmmaker Charles-André Coderre projecting hand-made visuals using analog 16mm film & 35mm slides on multiple site-specific screen installations. Moumneh's vocals and purposefully blown-out sonic sensibility have been the consistent thread, but the music of JIMH has never repeated itself either – one of the reasons Moumneh has resisted any official documentation or definitive recording of the project over the past eight years. At long last, in 2012 Moumneh cleared time and mental space to record a song cycle that cements the foundations of JIMH as an intensely vocal-driven musical project. 

    Dates: 

    Saturday, October 25, 2014 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    Espace en Cours - Paris , France
  • The real indies: A close look at orphan films

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    The preservation of small, experimental and avant garde films is as urgent as the restoration of commercial cinema classics. These eight personal and imaginative works showcase the creative ways that artists can change the way we see the world around us.

    Special guests include filmmakers Frank and Caroline Mouris, Jeanne Liotta, Bill Morrison, and Lisa Crafts; and archivists/preservationists Pamela Vizner (BB Optics), Heather Linville (Academy Film Archive), Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archive), and John Klacsmann (Anthology Film Archive); and violinist Todd Reynolds.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 14:00 to Sunday, November 2, 2014 - 12:55

    Venue: 

    The Academy Theater - New York, United States
  • Sight Unseen presents Entanglements: Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder w/ Max Eilbacher

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    Entanglements is a projection performance conceived as an open invitation for sound artists to process the optical soundtracks from an array of handcrafted 16mm film loops. The artist is completely free to interpret the soundtracks in any way they see fit. Previous performances have included the following sound artists, musicians, and composers: Ben Owen, Adam Sonderberg, Caleb Smith, and Claudio Rocchetti. 

    Artists in attendance!

    ENTANGLEMENTS (2009-2014), by Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder
    Multiple 16mm projection performance; black & white, mixed media; optical soundtrack processed live by local guest artist, Max Eilbacher; approx. 60 minutes

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - 19:00 to Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Gallery CA - Baltimore, United States

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