Events

  • VideoSur II: Experimental Video from Latin America

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    VideoSur II: Experimental Video from Latin America
    Wednesday. December 9th, 2009, 20h
    MassArt Film Society
    FILM Dept. Screening RM 1
    621 Huntington Ave.
    Boston, MA

    The MassArt Film Society and Discordiafilms present VideoSur II, a selection of Latin America experimental video that includes documentation of performance and art actions, noise video and stop motion animation from Chile, Argentina and Mexico.

    Inspired by the spirit of exchange in the Americas, VideoSur II is the second of a series of video showings that convey the complex cultural vision of Latin American artists.

    Artists:
    Paulo Ahumada Rovai, Juvenal Barría, Ciudad Dormitorio, Claudia González, Homunculo, Antonia Lopez, Hector Llanquín, Manuel Orellana Sandoval, Javiera Ovalle Sazie, Constaza Piña, Agustina Rodríguez Suhurt, Ana Silva, Binvignat, Pia Sommer, Andrés Torregiani, Venado Negro, Paula Venegas

    Co-curated by Julio Lamilla, Liz Munsell and Anabel Vázquez.
    8pm Wed. December 9th, 2009 @ MassArt Film Society

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  • Pleasure Dome: Tony Conrad & Marie Losier in Person

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    Pleasure Dome presents
    Tony Conrad & Marie Losier in Person
    Friday, December 11, 8pm $8/ 5 members
    Latvian House, 491 College St.
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Pleasure Dome is excited to present an evening with the wonderful Tony Conrad & Marie Losier. Conrad has been recognized since the 60s as one of the key figures of the American avant-garde, and working with the the most unlikely combination of collaborators including La Monte Young, Jack Smith, Beverly Grant and Mike Kelley, Conrad persists in being an influential and inventive musician, filmmaker, artist, and teacher. After a busy year with performances and exhibitions at the Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale, he will present his own selection of rarely-seen post-The Flicker films and videos, spanning a period of forty years.

    In conversation with him and visiting from NYC, special guest Marie Losier will be showing her film portrait Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist – plus a collection of recent works.

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  • Film (Parkour) at Yale University

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    Film (Parkour) at Yale University
    December 8, 2009; 7:00PM
    New Haven, CT
    Yale University (212 York)

    Film (Parkour) by Christopher May
    (2008-2009, 16mm & Super-8, sound & silent, 24fps & 18fps, Argentina, Austria, U.S.)

    “... folky but experimental tinge, paid off well - both images and sound, projector and instrument shared a rawness that matched perfectly and gave the personalities onscreen an added layer of meaning which at times was warm, funny, odd, contrasting, insightful...” -Sam Natch, Buenos Aires, argentina

    "We know that this is the first time in history that this type of Parkour material makes it into film; and this project does an incredible job at highlighting the deepest values that move our lives, leaving behind all superficiality." -Walter Bongard, founder PKA, Asociación Argentina de Le Parkour

    "Triumphant!...capturing traceurs' in their element, playing and human, rather than objects of advertisement ....a slight undercurrent of sensuous intimacy.. the lens found and lingered on the traceurs' genuine smiles, the tip of the ear or the playfulness in both movement and pause." - Michelle Duer, writer

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  • South London Gallery: Susanne Bürner

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    Susanne Bürner
    10-18 December 2009
    South London Gallery
    65 Peckham Road, London, SE5 8UH

    The South London Gallery presents the first London solo project by German artist Susanne Bürner. This new video work is shown as a special evening event (Thursday 10 December 2009, 7-9pm) accentuating its performative aspects following which it will be on show until 18 December 2009.

    LEAVES reveals an empty stage alluding to an anticipated action. using elements of cinematographic language such as long shot sequences and depth of field, the film portrays the sensation of prolonged suspense. LEAVES presents a meadow surrounded by trees as a pre-defined location of action in which nothing is performed. In this way the set becomes the negative image of the missing action.

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  • Xcèntric: December 2009 screenings

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    Xcentric December 09Xcèntric: December 2009 screenings
    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
    Montalegre, 5 - Barcelona, Spain

    Gustav Deutsch, Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, Chieko Shiomi, John Cavanaugh, James Riddle, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Wolf Vostell, Paul Sharits, George Brech, Robert Watts, Pieter Vanderbiek, Joe Jones, Eric Andersen, Alyson Knowles, Jeff Perkins, Wolf Vostell, Albert Fine, George Landow, Paul Sharits, John Cale, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, Ben Vautier, students Aula Xcèntric, Santiago Fillol and Lucas Vermal.

    Thursday December 3, 20h Gustav Deutsch
    Thursday December 3, 21.45h El Aullido [The Howling], the latest film by the artist Frederic Amat, based on an original screenplay by Cabrera Infante
    Sunday December 6 Andy Warhol’s fixed gaze (see below for detailed schedule)
    Sunday December 13, 18.30h Outside the format: Fluxus
    Wednesday December 16 Special session: Xcentric shows off local talent
    Thursday December 17, 20h Outside the format: Fluxus II

    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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  • La Casa Encendida: Film ist 13, a girl & a gun

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    Film ist: a girl & a gun (Gustav Deutsch, 2009)Film Ist, a girl & a gun
    by Gustav Deutsch. Austria/Germany 2009. 93 min
    at La Casa Encendida
    Every Tuesday in December, 20h
    Ronda Valencia, 2, Madrid

    FILM IST. a girl & a gun is a film drama in 5 acts about one of the oldest topics in cinematography and in the history of mankind: the confrontation of the sexes. From the Genesis of the universe and the world by collaboration and confrontation of the gods of creation, to the innocent cohabitation of men and women in the state of Paradise, to desire, temptation, love, jealousy, and hate between the sexes under the sign of Eros, to the escalation and violent repression and exploitation of the sexes in war and pornography reflected in Thanatos’ mirror, over to the solutions and enlightenment offered by religion and politics in the dialog of Symposium, film fragments from the first four and a half centuries of cinematography were researched and reassembled into sequence of pictures and stories and thereby given new meaning as to their original content.

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  • Pleasure Dome: Daniel Cockburn

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    Pleasure Dome presents:
    You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, All Different
    Daniel Cockburn In Person
    & Catalogue Launch
    Saturday, December 5, 8pm $8/ 5 members

    Latvian House, 491 College St.
    Toronto Ontario

    Fresh from a six-month DAAD residency in Berlin and a number of screenings in Europe and Asia, Daniel Cockburn returns to Toronto with a curated program of his films and videos and the Toronto launch of a new publication about his work. Cockburn plays at the intersection of avant-garde and narrative cinema. Bringing together innovative storytelling strategies with structuralist experimentation, he breaks open day-to-day reality to reveal the strange codes beneath. What if time ran backwards? What if everything in the world doubled in size? Self-reflexive to the point of neurosis, Cockburn is fascinated with how images and words can illuminate the structures and rhythms of our lives.

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  • 11th Festival des Cinémas Différents

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    11th Festival des Cinémas DifférentsCollectif Jeune Cinema's Festival des Cinémas Différents reaches its eleventh edition. During six evenings from December 8 to 13, at the cultural centre La Clef, the festival will offer screenings, performances and installations focused on two main themes: "Silver textures, digital materials" and "Experimentation from Mexico to the Southern Cone".

    Highlights of this year's festival are the retrospectives dedicated to filmmakers Siegfried Fruhauf, Christina Von Greve and Narcisa Hirsch. The festival will dedicate its closing evening to an homage to the late filmmaker Raymonde Carasco with the projection of her 1999 film Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier Chaman.

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  • MADATAC 01

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    MADATAC logoThe first edition of MADATAC, 'Open Show of Contemporary Audiovisual Art' will be held next December 10-12 in Madrid, Spain, with the aim to 'spotlight work which challenges the conventional cinematic narrative.'

    The official competition includes ninety works from all over the world, divided into five programmes, two fo them for the Ibero-American Selection (35 works) and three for Rest of the World Selection (55 works). At the end of each screening session there will be a forum with the video artists. There will be daily showings of video creations, open discussions with video artists, lectures, round-table debates, audio-visual performances and forums.

    Those works awarded in the competition will be screened in the weekly TV programme Transfera, dedicated to videoart.

     

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  • Summer Knowledge

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    Summer Knowledge
    Artists Space
    38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor
    New York
    December 4-19, 2009

    Curated by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, Summer Knowledge is a series of one-person screenings presenting a multi-generational selection of artists working in the moving image. In keeping with the project of Beard and Halter¹s Brooklyn venue Light Industry, each event will allow time for dialog and discussion.

    William E. Jones
    Anne Charlotte Robertson
    Michael Robinson
    Paul Sharits
    Leslie Thornton
    Emily Wardill

    Summer Knowledge launches the first in a series of programs with Beard and Halter through December 2010.

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