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  • Urban Research 2011

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    Urban Research 2011Urban Research 2011
    Artists Exploring Contemporary Urban Space

    The Urban Research Programme curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr is a special theme-based programme at The International Directors Lounge Media Art Festival. Urban Research has become a steady pool for innovative work concerning public space and urban development. An increasing number or artists act in response to the accelerated changes in the urban environment, demanding different ideas on how public place should be defined and created. These artists use documentary and experimental forms to create novel ideas about the urban environments under change.

    The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge 2011
    http://www.directorslounge.net/
    Meinblau e.V. | Pfefferberg | Christinenstr. 18/19 | D-10119 Berlin
    10-20 February 2011
    Open Daily 18 - late
    Free unlimited entrance

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  • WHAT TORNADO

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    WHAT TORNADO
    Group Exhibition
    February 13-27, 2011
    Opening Sunday February 13, 6-9pm
    Featuring: Peggy Ahwesh, David Baker, Catherine Cullen, Tommy D, Bradley Eros, Katarina Hybenova, Yasue Maetake, Jonas Mekas, Sebastian Mekas, Nathlie Provosty, Bill Roman, Allison Somers, and Moira Tierney.

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    Sunday, February 13, 2011 - 18:00 to Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 23:55

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    MICROSCOPE GALLERY (previous) - New York, United States
  • 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 12, 2011 (All day) to Saturday, March 19, 2011 (All day)

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    Museum of the Moving Image - New York, United States
  • Erotics of Attention: Films of Ellie Epp

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    Current (Ellie Epp, 1986)Erotics of Attention: Films of Ellie Epp
    Saturday, February 12, 19:30h
    CinemaSpace @ Segal Centre for the Performing Arts
    5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montréal, Québec

    CinemaSpace is very excited to present four 16mm films by filmmaker/writer/philosopher Ellie Epp in our new series Parallax views. Alongside her films, she will introduce Pictures On Pink Paper, a film by British artist Lis Rhodes. There will be a Q&A after the screening with Ellie Epp.

    Ellie Epp was born is La Grace, Alberta, in 1945. After graduating with a B.A. from Queen’s University in Kingston, she went on to study film at the Slade School of Art in London, U.K., where she frequented the London Filmmakers’ Co-op and met avant-garde filmmakers such as Sally Potter, Annabel Nicolson and Lis Rhodes in the early 1970s. While in London she began working on her seminal film Trapline, which she completed in 1976 after returning to Canada. In Vancouver, Epp was instrumental in the founding of the Women’s Interart Co-op in 1975. Epp holds an MA in Philosophy and an interdisciplinary Ph.D from Simon Fraser University specializing in embodied epistemology. Ellie Epp currently lives in San Diego, California, and teaches in the individualized MA program at Goddard College in Vermont.

    "I have always shot on reversal. It comes from shooting color slides, which I have liked for the discipline. Framing of a slide is absolute. You can't fix it later. You only have once chance. People have said they can see in my work that I'm coming from still photography. I can see that too, but I think the fixed frame is appropriate to the kind of film I make, that sense of someone standing and staring. The fixed frame says that I've given the stage to the thing I'm looking at, I'm letting it take me. It is a kind of erotic. I think my films are erotic. Or maybe my sense of erotic, which is that kind of complete attention, entranced attention, to nuances of contact and motion. My films when I am able to see them are total pleasure. They're light-fucks. David Rimmer talks about the erotic quality of the film image and the way people often can't stand it to be that, basically can't stand to be fucked in so tender a way. They keep themselves busy having theoretical thoughts about the work. There is theory to be found about this work, but not that kind of theory. I'd like to know more about the body's relation to a film. That's like wanting to know more about the feel I have for a framing, or why color has to be just right or else. A film is so vulnerable to print quality, for instance. Seeing a bad print is appalling. We all know about that but we don't know why." (Ellie Epp, from As If an Interview)

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  • Conversations at the Edge: The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn

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    Destiny Manifesto (Martha Colburn, 2006).Conversations at the Edge: The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn
    Thursday, February 10, 18h
    Gene Siskel Film Center
    164 N. State, Chicago, IL, USA

    Martha Colburn in person!

    Martha Colburn’s wickedly witty animations are assemblages of stop-motion puppetry, multi-layered glass painting, and all forms of pop cultural detritus. Drawing inspiration from the histories of the American West and more recent narratives of methamphetamine use and environmental catastrophe, Colburn’s outrageous pastiches offer incendiary commentary on our contemporary condition. Writes Jonas Mekas: “Martha Colburn’s films are naked testimonials of our times, and of her generation.” This evening, she will present a range of works from across her oeuvre—including early favorites like Evil of Dracula (1997) and Cosmetic Emergency (2005)—and the Chicago premiere of two brand-new projects, in addition to an in-depth discussion about her process. 1994-2010, Martha Colburn, Netherlands/USA, multiple formats, ca. 75 mins plus discussion.

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  • Chicago Filmmakers: Punto y Raya festival

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    "Punto y Raya" Animation Festival"Punto y Raya" Animation Festival
    Friday, February 25, 2011, 20h
    Chicago Filmmakers
    5423 N.Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60640, USA

    Based in Barcelona, Spain, Punto y Raya has taken on the mantle “most abstract in the world” by exclusively showcasing 2D animation made up entirely of dots, lines, and flat backgrounds. This “back to basics” approach has challenged filmmakers and abstract artists to find freedom and expression within stringent limitations, and the results are fantastic. In 2009, submissions came from 37 countries, 80% of them created specifically for the festival. This program consists of 16 semi-finalist, finalist and awarded films from 2009, plus two shorts by renowned abstract artist Larry Cuba, whose work was presented in a retrospective at Punto y Raya in 2010. (1978-79, 2007-09, total running time 76 min.)

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  • What tornado

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    WHat tornadoWHAT TORNADO
    Group Exhibition
    February 13-27, 2011
    Opening Sunday February 13, 6-9pm
    Microscope Gallery, 4 Charles Place, Bushwick, Brooklyn NY 11221
    Featuring: Peggy Ahwesh, David Baker, Catherine Cullen, Tommy D, Bradley Eros, Katarina Hybenova, Yasue Maetake, Jonas Mekas, Sebastian Mekas, Nathlie Provosty, Bill Roman, Allison Somers, and Moira Tierney.

    With almost daily forecasts of ice and snow as a backdrop, our group exhibition What Tornado turns to the weather for inspiration. On September 16th of last year, 2 days before our inaugural opening, a storm plowed through Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens, also striking our neighborhood of Bushwick – including the building next door. When we mentioned this to some of the artists and visitors at the opening the common reactions were: “What tornado?” or “I thought that was a rumor."

    The video, photo, painting, sound, sculpture, cartoon, performance and other works by NYC – mostly Brooklyn – artists in What Tornado attest to the unpredictability of Nature ...

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  • Directors Lounge 2011

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    Directors Lounge 2011The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge
    February 10 through 20, 2011
    Meinblau, Pfefferberg, Berlin Mitte

    This year's 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge has attracted an outstanding number of international artists and filmmakers to come to Berlin, to be personally present and to introduce their programme or show their art. The media art festival, organized by Berlin artists, will again present not just a selection of this year's best submissions, but exhibit a large number of curated programmes on specific topics selected by German and international guest curators. Directors Lounge features three main programmes every day, together with live music events, DJ's and a loop programme at the lounge bar. The lounge invites for meetings and discussions, or just a cool chill-out.

    Directors Lounge as an initiative of artists encompasses monthly screenings, exhibitions and art events for several years now. And, the festival in February that features a wide and international spectrum of experimental works, documentary films and art works, mostly focussing on the short form. This all happens in a relaxed ambience, in the mode of an open house, a meeting-point during Berlinale and the idea of a lounge that has become much more than an insider's tip in the Berlin art scene.

    Beginning with Febr. 10th over the period of ten days, and starting at 6 pm, Directors
    Lounge features a daily programme of specials at Meinblau on Pfefferberg in Berlin-Mitte, the heart of Berlin. Highlights include composer Michael Nyman, who will personally present his film work; Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma; Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil); Klaus W. Eisenlohr's "Urban Research"; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a few. Following a good old tradition of Directors Lounge's curators, the program will be out just shortly before the start of the festival. Check it out here: www.directorslounge.net

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