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  • Cinémathèque française: Ken Jacobs performance

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    KJ_CFCinémathèque française: Ken Jacobs performance
    Saturday, January 16th  2010, Salle Henri Langlois
    51, rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris, France

    Major artist of the experimental scene in New York, Ken Jacobs is the author of numerous films, including Tom Tom the Piper's Son, an exploration of a film from 1905, and the pamphlet on U.S. policy after the war, Star Spangled to Death.

    Along with his movies, Ken Jacobs has created a significant number of performances under the banner of what he's called 'The Nervous System'. Ken Jacobs invents his own instruments and manipulates the projection during the performance. He creates rhythmic effects, getting a depth or relief never achieved before. His performances challenge traditional perceptions of time, space and image, disrupting and disorienting the viewer.

    Ken Jacobs in the preamble to his performance will present a 3D movie made from images of one of the pioneers of cinema, Louis Aimé Augustin Leprince (1842-1890): Gift of Fire. Nineteen Obscure Frames That Changed The World.

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  • Diarios sin piedad. Los 90: Femenino. Anne Charlotte Robertson / Birgit Hein

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    Diarios sin piedad. Los 90: Femenino. Anne Charlotte Robertson / Birgit HeinLa norteamericana Anne Charlotte Robertson filma su vida desde principios de los 80, alternando un cotidiano doloroso y estancias en instituciones psiquiátricas. Con Apologies, se pregunta obsesivamente cual es su derecho a hacerlo. Birgit Hein propone con Baby I will make you sweat una indagación personal sin tapujos sobre la sexualidad, la moralidad y la feminidad.

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    Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 20:00 to Friday, January 8, 2010 - 19:55

  • Animated Art

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    Animated Art
    Northwest Film Forum
    Thursday, Jan 07 at 07:00PM
    1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, Wyoming, USA

    Rethinking the boundaries of animation, visual art and experimental filmmaking, this program of films by mostly local talent brings together artists working in different disciplines that are rarely shown together.

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    Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 19:00 to Friday, January 8, 2010 - 18:55

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  • Close-up: Histories of the Avant-Garde Part III

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    Close-up: Histories of the Avant-Garde Part III
    January 26th 2009, 20h
    The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB, London. Ticket: £5/£3 Close-Up members
    Doors open at 7.45 pm
    Presented by Close-Up and The Dog Movement

    PASSAGE THROUGH: A RITUAL by Stan Brakhage + MUSICAL STAIRS by Guy Sherwin

    A chance to see one of Brakhage’s most important sound films for the first time in London alongside Guy Sherwin’s Optical Sound film Musical Stairs.

    Parts 1 and 2 of Histories of the Avant-Garde looked at the resolutely, intensely silent Brakhage film Riddle of Lumen and Guy Sherwin’s Short Film Series. Part 3 enters the world of sound with these two filmmkakers and also looks forward to Part 4 in February, which will be examining music’s manifold relationship to Film with five American masters.

    Brakhage’s relationship to sound was complex. It took an almost indirect collaboration with the composer Phillip Corner to fulfill Brakhage’s desire for a way of giving equal importance to music and image whilst keeping them parallel, distinct experiences. Long passages of black with Corner’s music are cut with silent flashes of colour photography culled from Brakhage’s ‘rejected’ footage. Meditative and demanding but ultimately one of Brakhage’s most rewarding films.
    Sherwin’s Musical Stairs has a method of production and structure that could be seen in opposition to Passage. Image is physically printed on to the optical sound track to create an seemingly absolute synthesis of sound and image.

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  • Close-up: Michael Robinson - 8 Films

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    Close-up: Michael Robinson - 8 Films
    January 19th 2009, 20h
    The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB, London. Ticket: £5/£3 Close-Up members
    Doors open at 7.45 pm

    Light Is Waiting (Michael Robinson, 2007)

    This programme features 8 films by experimental filmmaker Michael Robinson followed by a Q&A with the artist. Since 2000, Michael Robinson has created a body of film, video and photography work exploring the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated experience. His work has screened in both solo and group shows at a variety of festivals, cinematheques and galleries including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Film Festival, The London Film Festival & Anthology Film Archives.

    “Robinson’s collaged films thus do double duty: while pointing to the mechanisms of mediation and manufactured sentiment, he unlocks the power popular images exercise over our psychological and emotional makeup, reconfiguring them in a way that is funny but not ironic, sincere but not naïve, heartfelt but not sentimental.” - Henriette Huldisch, Aurora 2008: The Infinite Measure

     

    - And We All Shine On (2006, 7 mins, 16mm, Colour)
    An ill wind is transmitting through the lonely night, spreading deception and myth along its murky path, singing the dangers of the mediated spirit.

    - If There Be Thorns (2009, 13 mins, 16mm & DV)
    A dark wave of exile, incest, and magic burns across the tropics, forging a knotted trail into the black hole. Three star-crossed siblings wander in search of one another as a storm of purple prose and easy listening slowly engulfs them.

    - Hold Me Now (2008, 5 mins,, DV)
    Plagued by blindness, sloth, and operatic devotion, a troubled scene from Little House on the Prairie offers itself up to karaoke exorcism.

    - You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (2005, 8 mins, 16mm, Colour)
    Viewed at its seams, a slideshow of National Geographic landscapes from the 1960’s and 70’s deforms into a bright white distress signal.

    - Light Is Waiting (2007, 11 mins, DV)
    A very special episode of television’s Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Tropes of video art and family entertainment face off in a luminous orgy neither can survive.

    - The General Returns From One Place To Another (2006, 11 mins, 16mm & DV)
    Shaping a concurrently indulgent and skeptical experience of the beautiful, the film draws an uneasy balance between the romantic and the horrid. A Frank O’Hara monologue (from a play of the same title) attempts to undercut the sincerity of the landscape, but there are stronger forces surfacing.

    - All Through The Night (2008, 4 mins, DV)
    A charred visitation with an icy language of control: “there is no room for love”. Splinters of Nordic fairy tales and ecological disaster films are ground down into a shimmering prism of contradictions in this hopeful container for hopelessness.

    - Victory Over The Sun (2007, 13 mins, 16mm, Colour)
    Dormant sites of past World’s Fairs breed an eruptive struggle between spirit and matter, ego and industry, futurism and failure. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory; nothing lasts forever even cold November rain.

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  • Scratch Projection: Telemach Wiesinger

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    scratch_100112Scratch Projection: Telemach Wiesinger
    Tuesday 12 January 2010 at 20.30h, 6€

    Born in Germany, Telemach Wiesinger is a filmmaker who bases most of his work on the idea of travel. Entered in the collection of Light Cone in 2009, this artist, also photographer, collects images of his "film-poems" during his travels using his 16mm camera with short sequences of a few minutes. At the border of the documentary, his films in black and white have a plastic breathtaking beauty, sometimes accompanied by soundtracks, fruit of his collaboration with composers and musicians.

     

    - Meer (Wolfgang Lehmann & Telemach Wiesinger, 2004, 16mm, B&W, sound, 15')
    - 3 X 1 (Telemach Wiesinger, 2007, 16mm, B&W, sound, 10')
    - Passage...s (Telemach Wiesinger, 2007, 16mm, B&W, silent, 30')

     

    Cinéma Action Christine
    4, rue Christine
    75006 Paris
    FRANCE

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  • Pip Chodorov: Pastrami Recordings & Film Surprises

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    Pip Chodorov: Pastrami Recordings & Film Surprises
    Friday, January 8 - 7:30pm
    UnionDocs
    322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA
    Suggested donation $7

    - PASTRAMI RECORDINGS Pip Chodorov USA, 2009, 31 minutes, 16mm
    In June 2009, Pip Chodorov and Charlemagne Palestine were invited to the Côté Court festival in Pantin, France to make a filmo-musical performance about their home town, New York City. The film was cut together from images Chodorov filmed on 16mm over a 15-year period, and projected with live music by Palestine from recordings made in New York, and with participation by Chodorov and Benn Northover. This screening will be an attempt to recreate that performance from the film and the music recorded that night.

    - FAUX MOUVEMENTS (WRONG MOVES) Pip Chodorov USA, 2007, 12 minutes, 16mm
    Specific neurons in the brain are responsible for perceiving motion. This film acts directly on those neurons, to create novel motion effects, not on the screen but directly in the brain. Made by bipacking 16mm loops of trains and spirals on the contact printer.

    - ON BEEING AND NOTHINGNESS Emilija Skarnulyte 2009, 3 minutes, Super8
    The Lithuanian language has several words for “death,” one of which is used for bees and people, the other for all other beings. This film was shot time-lapse over a four-day period.

    Pip Chodorov. Born April 13, 1965 in New York. Filmmaking and music composition since 1972. Studied cognitive science at the University of Rochester, NY and film semiotics at the University of Paris, France. Work in film distribution – previously Orion Classics, NYC; UGC, Paris; Light Cone, Paris; and, currently, Re:Voir Video, Paris, which he founded in 1994 and The Film Gallery, the first art gallery devoted excusively to experimental film. He is also co-founder of L’Abominable, a cooperative do-it-yourself film lab in Paris, and the moderator of the internet-based forum on experimental film, FrameWorks.

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  • Xcèntric: January-February 2010 screenings

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    Xcentric December 09Xcèntric: January-February 2010 screenings
    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
    Montalegre, 5 - Barcelona, Spain

    Anne Charlotte Robertson, Birgit Hein, Nelson Sullivan, Fred Worden, Isabelle Prim, Takashi ITO, Mara Mattushka y Chris Haring, Josef Dabernig, Stan Brakhage, Ming-Yuen S. Ma., Matthias Müller, Marie Losier, Sadie Benning, Virginia Villaplana, Hans Scheirl y Ursula Pürrer, David Domingo, David Gatten, Nanathiel Dorsky, Paul Sharits, Greg Pope, Claudio Caldini, Karen Johannesen, Guy Sherwin, Jim Jennings, Nick Hamlyn, Andrew Noren, Jane Aaron, Leighton Pierce, Louise Bourque, Sara MacLean, Ben Russell, Lewis Klahr, Peggy Ahwesh, Christian MarClay, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, hermanos Lumière, Sharon Lockhart, Ken Jacobs, Sam Taylor-Wood, Hollis Frampton, Emily Richardson, Jean Epstein, F.J.Ossang, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maya Deren, Apichatpong Weerasetakhul, Robert Frank, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Eija-Liisa Athila, Dan Graham, John Latham, David Lamelas, Hugo Santiago, Kaucyila Brooke i Jane Cottis, Jennifer Montgomery, Filipa César, Deimantas Narkevicius, Jonas Mekas, Chris Marker, Sergio Belinchón, John Burgan, A.S.M Kobayashi, Kalup Linzy.

    Thursday January 7, 20h Merciless diaries. The 90s: feminine. Anne Charlotte Robertson / Birgit Hein
    Sunday January 10, 18h Merciless Diaries. The ‘80s: Queer. Nelson Sullivan
    Thursday January 14, 20h Welcome to the Secret Society (I)
    Sunday January 17, 18.30h Queer Films. Feedback. Disintegration
    Thursday January 21, 20h Hyperbolas of the Grain
    Sunday January 24, 18.30h Ways of Living
    Thursday January 28, 20h Otherness and fiction
    Sunday January 31, 20h Tropical Modernity. The Cinema of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
    Sunday February 7, 18.30h Against Time I
    Thursday February 11, 20h Against Time II
    Sunday February 14, 18.30h Against Time III
    Thursday February 18, 18.30h Dry Kisses Only
    Sunday February 21, 18.30h The Dialectic of the Remake
    Thursday February 25, 20h Memory of Berlin
    Sunday February 28, 18.30h Benning, Kobayashi and Linzy

    All screenings will be in the original version with Catalan subtitles and film format (16/35 mm) unless indicated otherwise. The CCCB reserves the right to modify the programme for reasons of force majeure. Screenings in the Auditorium. Limited capacity. Punctuality is requested.

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