Events

  • Films by Nathaniel Dorsky: How Delicately the Light Imbues Our Fleeting Life

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    "With a delicate and unique clarity of focus, the serenely silent 16mm films of Bay Area treasure Nathaniel Dorsky embody a mindful concern for the epiphanies of each passing moment and a rare sensitivity to the ephemeralities of light. In celebration of the Bay Area premiere of four new films—each deeply concerned the delicacy and sorrow of being alive in the world—we present three silent evenings (and one afternoon) of this master filmmaker’s most recent works." — Steve Polta

    Dates: 

    Thursday, November 12, 2015 (All day)
    Friday, November 13, 2015 (All day)
    Saturday, November 14, 2015 (All day)
    Sunday, November 15, 2015 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco, United States
  • DIM Cinema: Stella Polare

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    For Remembrance Day, DIM Cinema presents Stella Polare, an immersive essay film on the nature of war, terror and resistance; loss, memory and forgetting. The soft voice of an anonymous narrator addresses us, the viewers, in the second person, situating us behind the camera as flâneurs casting our stranger’s gaze across an unnamed European city. There we encounter some of the town’s inhabitants strolling along a jetty in the fading evening light, peer into shop windows in half-deserted streets, and drift through the interiors of 19th-century apartments and museums, following the “dusted faded traces of a glorious imperial past.”

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, November 11, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    DIM Cinema - Vancouver, Canadá
  • The Wiener Actionists - Otto Muehl

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    An evening dedicated to films by Otto Muehl, in the attendance of Hubert Klocker, director of Sammlung Friedrichshof Zurndorn/Vienna. Made possible by the help of the Österreichisches Kulturforum Brussels.

    Programme:
    - Zock Exercises (Otto Muehl, Austria, 1967, 12', colour, 16mm, silent)
    - Vincent (Otto Muehl & Therese Schulmeister, Austria, 1984, 85', colour, video)

    During the lecture of Hubert Klocker, the following works will be screened:

    Dates: 

    Monday, November 9, 2015 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica
  • Light Movement 9: Karl Kels

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    This month Light Movement is extremely delighted to host Karl Kels, who will be presenting in person a selection of 16mm films from 1981-94 plus a very special 35mm screening of Sidewalk from 2008.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 20:00 to Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    SPEKTRUM - Berlin, Germany
  • VISIONS 07.11.15: Philip Hoffman

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    VISIONS in collaboration with the Cinémathèque québécoise presents: Philip Hoffman - passing through/torn formations (16mm, 1988, 43mins)

    “Philip Hoffman has long been recognized as Canada’s pre-eminent diary filmmaker. For over twenty years he has been straining history through personal fictions, using the material of his life to deconstruct the Griersonian legacy of documentary practice. As an artist working directly upon the material of film, Hoffman is keenly attuned to the shape of seeing, foregrounding the image and its creation as well as the manufacture of point of view. Hoffman’s films are deeply troubled in their remembrances; he dusts off the family archive to examine how estrangement fuels a fascination with the familiar surroundings of home. (Karyn Sandlos, Toronto Images Festival, 2001)

    Dates: 

    Saturday, November 7, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Cinémathèque québécoise - Montréal, Canada
  • Anthology Film Archives: The Royal Road

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    Co-presented by MIX NYC, producer of the NY Queer Experimental Film Festival.

    The latest film from acclaimed San Francisco-based filmmaker, writer, curator, and LGBT film historian Jenni Olson, The Royal Road is a beautifully structured, multi-faceted essay film that offers up a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, butch identity, the quest for unattainable women, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo – all against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes, and featuring a voiceover cameo by Tony Kushner. Freely mixing personal and historical meditations, and allowing the two to amplify each other without necessarily making the connections explicit, The Royal Road is a film of ideas that is also a pleasure to look at and listen to.

    Dates: 

    Friday, October 30, 2015 (All day)
    Saturday, October 31, 2015 (All day)
    Sunday, November 1, 2015 - 00:00 to 22:55
    Monday, November 2, 2015 (All day)
    Tuesday, November 3, 2015 (All day)
    Wednesday, November 4, 2015 (All day)
    Thursday, November 5, 2015 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Anthology Film Archives - New York, Estados Unidos
  • Ben Rivers: Ethnographies

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    Close-Up in collaboration with LUX and Camden Arts Centre, present the third part of a screening programme which expands on Ben Rivers’ exhibition Earth Needs More Magicians and his artist-curated exhibition Edgelands at the Camden Arts Centre.  

    The final part of the screening programme considers "ethnographies", a term often talked about in relation to Ben Rivers' films and the work of other experimental filmmakers including Chick Strand, Mark LaPore and Ben Russell, whose film in the programme was co-shot with Rivers and features the same footage used for Rivers's new film in the exhibition at Camden Arts Centre.  

    Dates: 

    Friday, November 27, 2015 - 20:00 to Saturday, November 28, 2015 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido
  • Turbidus Film #11: Nathaniel Dorsky

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    Turbidus Film and Fylkingen present Nathaniel Dorsky

    The films of Nathaniel Dorsky blend a beauteous celebration of the sensual world with a deep sense of introspection and solitude. They are occasions for reflection and meditation, on light, landscape, time and the motions of consciousness. Their luminous photography emphasizes the elemental frisson between solidity and luminosity, between spirit and matter, while his uniquely developed montage permits a fluid and flowing experience of time. Dorsky’s films reveal the mystery behind everyday existence, providing intimations of eternity.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, November 1, 2015 - 18:30

    Venue: 

    Fylkingen - Stockholm, Sweden
  • Negative Light: Recent Experimental Film and Video from the UK

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    Microscope is very pleased to welcome London-based artist and curator Simon Payne to the gallery for the first time with a program of moving image works from the United Kingdom by Maria Anastassiou, Nick Collins, Nicky Hamlyn, Neil Henderson, Jamie Jenkinson, Jennifer Nightingale, Simon Payne, Karolina Raczynski, and Guy Sherwin, most of which are screening in New

    Dates: 

    Monday, October 26, 2015 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Microscope Gallery - New York, Estados Unidos

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