Events

  • Xcèntric: Time capsules. The collage films of Arthur Lipsett

    By on
    21-87 (Arthur Lipsett,1964)

    The figure of Arthur Lipsett occupies one of the most original and exciting fringes of editing and film collage. His work, which fascinated filmmakers as varied as Kubrick, Brakhage and George Lucas, was interrupted by Lipsett’s mental problems (he suffered from bipolar disorder) and the torment that led to his suicide, at the age of 46. He started out making sound collages, which he then transferred to his brilliant, enigmatic pieces produced by Canada’s NFB: combinations of images and sounds, in films of recycling and deconstruction, ironic and sarcastic visual essays about consumerism or critiques of the mass media, with jazzy or syncopated rhythms that illuminated a sense of cinema and a unique way of thinking.

    Programme:- Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett,1961, video, 6 min)- 21-87 (Arthur Lipsett,1964, 16 mm, 9 min)- Perceptual Learning (Arthur Lipsett,1965, video, 11 min)- Free Fall (Arthur Lipsett,1964, video, 9 min)- A Trip Down Memory Lane (Arthur Lipsett, 1965, video, 12 min)- Fluxes (Arthur Lipsett,1968, 16 mm, 23 min)- Lipsett Diaries (Theodore Ushev, 2010, 35 mm, 14 min.)

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 20:00 to Friday, January 17, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

  • New Korean Experimental Cinema: Space Cell Film Lab

    By on
    Still Moving, Or (Sung-Kwon Jeon, 2013)

    For his regular screenings, the Collectif Jeune Cinéma organises a one hour programme devoted to recent Korean experimental films (2013). The films have been made inside the Space Cell laboratory. The screening is programmed and introduced by Pip Chodorov (filmmaker, director of Re:Voir editions).  

    The lab was founded in 2004. It’s a small hand-made film lab, but first attempt in Korea. We have darkroom for hand processing, optical printer, steenbeck, bolexes and almost all kind of 16 or super 8mm equipment. (Jangwook Lee, director) 

    Programme- Still Moving, Or (Sung-Kwon Jeon, 16mm, colour, sound, South Korea, 2013, 23')- Hold Me (Sook Hyun Kim & Hye-Ieong Cho, 16mm, colour, sound, South Korea, 2013, 9')- Conversation, Print 1 (Jangwook Lee, 16mm, B&W, silent, South Korea, 2013, 3')- Na-Dul-Lee (Inhan Cho & Yoon Joo Lee, DV, colour, sound, South Korea, 2013, 18')- Song for Zero person (Mihye Cha, Video HD, colour, silent, South Korea, 2013, 8'45)

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    Cinéma La Clef - Paris, France

  • Under the Sun: The Films of Rose Lowder

    By on
    Bouquets 11-20 (Rose Lowder, 2005–10)

    Brimming with vibrant images of blossoms, orchards, insects and meadows, the works of celebrated filmmaker Rose Lowder explore our relation with and impact on the world. Rare gems selected by Lowder will be shown alongside key works from one of the most distinct bodies of work in French experimental cinema. Grounded in her interest in radical agriculture, colour theory and the landscapes of her adoptive home in the south of France, Lowder is committed to filmmaking as an ecological practice inseparable from her lifelong collecting and championing of non-commercial cinema. Trained as a painter and sculptor in Lima, Peru, and London, Lowder turned to filmmaker in 1977 after studying with Jean Rouch.

    Her engagement with ways of living and filming will be explored alongside the meticulous design, composition and production of her films. The screenings will be introduced and followed by conversations with the artist.

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 17, 2014 - 19:00 to Sunday, January 19, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Tate Modern - London , United Kingdom

  • MassArt Film Society: Neil Henderson - Materiality, Music and Landscape

    By on
    Portrait of Evan Parker (Silver/Gold) (Neil Henderson, 2010)

    Neil Henderson's work has encompassed multiple projector pieces, experiments with the materiality of film and photography, and films about landscape. His work has been shown at Diversions Film Festival, Edinburgh; the Onion City Film Festival, Chicago; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Anthology Film Archives, New York and Modern Art Oxford. In 2009 his film Circles was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing prize. His work is discussed in Nicky Hamlyn's Film Art Phenomena (London: BFI, 2003). He studied at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and the Slade School of Art and teaches Film Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. 

    Filmmaker in person!

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 20:00 to Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos

  • Furtherfield Gallery: One Minute Volume 7

    By on
    One Minute Vol.7 - Lumiere and Son

    Furtherfield Gallery is pleased to host One Minute Volume 7, a new series of shorts curated by filmmaker Kerry Baldry. The screening is accompanied by One Minute Remix, a selection of moving images from One Minute Volumes 1-5.

    The programmes include work by: John Smith, Rose Butler, Tony Hill, Steven Ball, Alexander Costello, Leister/Harris, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Louisa Minkin, Claire Hope, Max Hattler, Guy Sherwin, Steven Woloshen, Lynn Loo, Lumiere et Son (Sam Renseiw and Philip Sanderson), Gary Peploe and Peter Nutley, Eva Rudlinger, Michael Szpakowski, Zhel (Zeljko Vukicevic), Matthias Kispert, Stuart Pound, Sellotape Cinema, Alex Pearl, My Name Is Scot, Kerry Baldry, Esther Johnson, Marty St. James, Nicki Rolls, Katherine Meynell, Chris Paul Daniels, Riccardo Iacono, Edwin Rostron, Martin Pickles, Grant Petrey, Annabel Dover, Kelvin Brown, Gordon Dawson, Tansy Spinks,Virginia Hilyard, Barry Lewis, Nick Jordan, Claire Morales, Ron Diorio, Daniela Butsch, Dave Griffiths.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, January 25, 2014 - 12:00 to Sunday, January 26, 2014 - 15:55
    Sunday, January 26, 2014 - 12:00 to Monday, January 27, 2014 - 15:55
    Saturday, February 1, 2014 - 12:00 to Sunday, February 2, 2014 - 15:55
    Sunday, February 2, 2014 - 12:00 to Monday, February 3, 2014 - 15:55

    Venue: 

    Furtherfield Gallery - London, United Kingdom

  • Expanded Cinema-Live AudioVisual performances at Pyramid Atlantic

    By on
    Winter views by Chris H Lynn

    A night of Expanded Cinema, AudioVisual performances and films-

    Margaret RorisonMargaret Rorison is a writer, curator and filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland.

    Rorison's work has been screened at various festivals and venues including Mono No Aware VI & VII, Brooklyn, NY; T.I.E. Alternative Measure’s, Colorado Springs, CO; 2013 Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington D.C.; Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Eyebeam, New York, NY; The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia; and The High Zero Festival, Baltimore, MD.

    She is the co-founder and curator for a roaming experimental film series, Sight Unseen, partial member of the artist run film lab, LaborBerlin and holds an MFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art. She is also a member of The Red Room Collective and has been a member of The Maryland Film Festival Screening Committee since 2012.

    Khristian WeeksI am an artist and improviser working in the fields of sound, kinetics, assemblage, and optics. My primary interest is in the process of discovery experienced through observation and experimentation. Playing a fundamental role in my creative processes as well as in their realization is the use of silence, non-intention, and natural forces to produce self-sustaining systems of movement, sound, and optical phenomena such as shadow, caustics, reflection, refraction, and projection.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, January 11, 2014 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Pyramid Atlantic Art Gallery - Silver Spring, United States

  • Experimental Response Cinema: Katabasis

    By on
    Eleventh Spectacle (The Erotic) (Stuart Sherman,1979)

    A term used to describe a journey to the underworld, Experimental Response Cinema and MASS Gallery present Katabasis, a trip to a land of spectacles, of alchemical concoctions, of the most precise hallucinations. Don’t fear, there is a way out – near, far, wherever you are. A screening with a focus on performance, featuring work by Mary Helena Clark, Lawrence Jordan, David Lebrun, Jesse McLean, Shana Moulton, and Stuart Sherman.

    Dates: 

    Friday, January 24, 2014 - 20:00 to Saturday, January 25, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    MASS Gallery - Austin, United States

  • Open City Cinema presents: Stephen Broomer vs. Toronto

    By on
    Christ Church - Saint James (Stephen Broomer, 2011)

    Stephen Broomer in person

    Fresh out of screenings at TIFF Wavelengths, Views from the Avant Garde and Migrating Forms, Open City Cinema is proud to bring Toronto experimental filmmaker Stephen Broomer to Winnipeg to present a program of his meticulous and visually stunning films.

    Broomer will be on hand to introduce his program and answer audience questions, and will also present a program of contemporary Toronto experimental works that he has curated.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    RAW:Gallery - Winnipeg, Canada

  • Xcèntric: Antoni Pinent - Experimental sketches

    By on
    G/R/E/A/S/E (Antoni Pinent, 2008-13)

    Set in the field of experimental cinema, the films of Antoni Pinent are a kind of reflection on the cinematographic medium, where the material aspects of moving images form the content. Over the years, he has developed a very particular camera-less cinema, working directly on the support and fragmenting its smallest unit, the still, in a technique he calls “polyframe”, which he has used to make his latest films. This task of décollage using filmic materiality and presenting the film as something concrete that you can work on with your hands is a reference to the cinema of attractions, that powerful visual experience packed with punches, shocks and humour of early film. This session will present some of his works in a dialogue with others by Volker Schreiner, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller, Morgan Fisher, David Matarasso and Peter Tscherkassky; some have been an important influence, others introduce concepts to reflect on his work.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 20:00 to Friday, January 10, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain

  • Celluloid Therapy: The Diary Films of Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949–2013)

    By on

    White Light Cinema and The Nightingale Present

    The experimental film community lost one of its most original and distinctive voices last fall with the passing of Framingham, Massachusetts Super-8 filmmaker Anne Charlotte Robertson. Robertson’s films (and later digital videos) were visceral, haunting, emotionally raw works that opened up the artist’s life and her anxieties, obsessions, compulsions, addictions, and mental illness in unprecedented ways. Robertson’s films, now housed at Harvard Film Archive, are powerful documents of maintaining oneself with art, sharply incisive self-analysis, and caustic wit while struggling with an often times debilitating illness. 

    White Light Cinema is proud to present a selection of five early works by Robertson (whose films have not been seen in Chicago in well over a decade, and only a handful of times before that), in new digital transfers. [Robertson rarely screened her originals, and only when she was present. The previous solo show of Robertson’s work in Chicago, which I was fortunate to present at Chicago Filmmakers, was from VHS.]

    These are startlingly moving works about the fragility and resilience of the human spirit. Robertson’s legacy is a remarkably brave example of really living life through art. 

    Dates: 

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

    Venue: 

    The Nightingale - Chicago, United States

Pages

Calendar

Event Calendar

January

M T W T F S S
 
1
 
2
 
3
 
4
 
5
 
6
 
7
 
8
 
9
 
10
 
11
 
12
 
13
 
14
 
15
 
16
 
17
 
18
 
19
 
20
 
21
 
22
 
23
 
24
 
25
 
26
 
27
 
28
 
29
 
30
 
31