Events

  • ATA: Jennifer Reeves’ When It Was Blue

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    When It Was Blue (Jennifer Reeves, 2008)ATA: Jennifer Reeves’ When It Was Blue
    Friday, March 16, 2012, 19:30h
    Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

    SF Cinematheque presents: Jennifer Reeves In Person

    “Drawing as much from the feminist surrealism of Peggy Ahwesh, the interior psychological exploration of Stan Brakhage, and the globalized interiority of Warren Sonbert as from the Vertovian heritage, Jennifer Reeves turns the screen into a materialist writing-pad that moves at the speed of private thought.” (Michael Sicinsky)

    Presented by Cinematheque as a work-in-progress in 2008, Jennifer Reeves’ now-completed When It Was Blue is a work of incredible ambition and scope. Described by Chris Stults as “an overwhelmingly powerful achievement on a truly epic scale,” the dual-projected, feature-length, 16mm work is a dazzling, deliriously immersive and visceral sound/image experience. Shot over thre years in Iceland, New Zealand, Costa Rica and North America, in documentation of our fragile natural world, the film—fiercely overpainted, spectacularly edited— explodes with color and an overpowering sense of nowness, a rushed sense of urgency. In its attempt at maximal expression and globalizing vision, in its fusion of simultaneously micro- and macroscopic views of nature with a blurred sense of subjective visuality and interiority, When It Was Blue is a filmic achievement on par with the most ambitious works of Stan Brakhage, Jack Chambers and Michele Smith, an ecstatic work of complex visual philosophy which aspires (tragically) to nothing less than the reconciliation of objective and subjective realities. Other short works by Reeves will screen. (Steve Polta)

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  • Xcèntric: Compendium of games - Three films by Robert Nelson (updated)

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    The Great Blondino (William T. Wiley & Robert Nelson, 1967)Compendium of games. Three films by Robert Nelson
    Thursday May 3, 20h
    Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

    Ntoce: This screening has been delayed until May 3rd.

    This session presents three of the most important films by experimental filmmaker Robert Nelson, who died earlier this year, made in collaboration with friends and artists on the San Francisco scene. Bleu Shut could be called a structural film; Oh Dem Watermelons is an anarchic comedy reminiscent of surrealist avant-garde cinema, and The Great Blondino is a delirious, dreamlike narrative. But what all three share is an enthusiastic sense of humour and an energy that conveys how much fun they were to make. [Screening in 16 mm]

    Programme: Bleu Shut, Robert Nelson, USA, 1970, 30‘; Oh Dem Watermelons, R. Nelson, USA, 1965, 11’; The Great Blondino, William T. Wiley & Robert Nelson, USA, 1967, 42’.

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  • Another Experiment By Women Film Festival's 3rd Festival Show

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    Curious light (Charlotte Pryce, 2011)Another Experiment By Women Film Festival's 3rd Festival Show
    Tuesday March 13, 2012, 19:15h
    Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue, New York 10003

    Curated by Lili White
    Featuring 16mm films by Charlotte Pryce & Caryn Cline

    Filmmakers attending: Maria Niro, Caryn Cline, Noe Kidder, Courtney Krantz

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    Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 19:15

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    Anthology Film Archives - New York, Estados Unidos
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    Curious light (Charlotte Pryce, 2011)Another Experiment By Women Film Festival's 3rd Festival Show
    Tuesday March 13, 2012, 19:15h
    Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue, New York 10003

    Curated by Lili White
    Featuring 16mm films by Charlotte Pryce & Caryn Cline

    Filmmakers attending: Maria Niro, Caryn Cline, Noe Kidder, Courtney Krantz

    Other works to be screened by: Mercedes Sader (Uraguay), Matoula Eolou Gekko (France/Greece), Muriel Montini (France), Kyja Kristjana-Nelson (USA/Iceland), Nandita Kumar (India/New Zealand), and from the USA: Maria Niro, Charmaine Ortiz, Yana (Ioanna) Sakellion, Noe Kidder, Charlotte Pryce, Courtney Krantz, & Caryn Cline

    This year AXWFF presented Three different Festival Screenings, a Panel Discussion with Eight International Filmmakers, and several filmmakers were screened in Uruguay's Roman Partes Experimental Film Festival and at the Mirror/Lens conference in Cambridge, England

    AXWFF will continue to present shows thru New Filmmakers’ Women's Night at Anthology Film Archives in 2012.

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  • Hommage to Marcel Mazé - Living Memory

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    Le Rituel de Fontainebleau (Stéphane Marti, 2001)Hommage to Marcel Mazé - Living Memory
    Thursday March 15th 2012, 20h
    Cinéma La Clef, 34 rue Daubenton, 75005 Paris

    The ones that have met Marcel Mazé were immediaiatly seduced by his personality, his enthusiasm and magnetised by his militant energy. He enjoyed sharing his passion for the so called experimental and, more broadly, different cinema. One was very quickly invited to rally the Collectif Jeune Cinéma. It did not matter whether you were a film maker or not. You were always an “experimental one”, in the making, or a “different” person as  he liked to designate CJC’s members. His federative presence as a cooperator was annihilating all elitist aspirations from film makers. Everyone could take part and invest oneself at CJC’s life. To rally such collective was and always is rethinking another way of making cinema and to reinvest it from its own practice. Such implications were necessarily personal and brought with them constantly evolving colorations  within infitnite possibilities. Theoretical debates and polymorphous creations were collapsing together to give rise to a permanent emergence of critical gestures  (critical in the romantic and libertarian sense). This collective was born in the legacy of May 68 when we liked to think that the collective would contribute to the ongoing renewal of that time. Thanks to Marcel Mazé, the CJC always kept such exponential desire for enabling emancipation. There must be something unreasonable to promote minor and disturbing forms of  cinematography but affects and sensations are inevitably mixing up with reason.

    Marcel Mazé was commited to search, gather and nourish a young cinema at Hyères in the 70’s and until today in Paris . He was doing so with a rebellious spirit both optimistic and curious. Such eternal “young cinema” keeps regenerating itself at the margins of industrial cinema. Similar to a giant rhizome, it questions and influences the most dominant forms of cinema since its origins.

    His acute dedication was key to discover and transmit for more than 40 years such an ongoing renewal of young cinematorgraphies calling into questions prejudices and assumptions. He was the figure that operated at the heart of CJC and that relentlessly shared his singular discoveries with others. He was fully inhabiting the film coop he founded with his art of uniting a large range of filmakers’ independent practices. His unifying presence enabled experimental and different cinema to radiate above any historiacal or dogmatic limits and to be still defended and animated by its own makers.

    Marcel Mazé was a photographer, a director and an actor all together and performed for filmmakers such as Stéphane Marti. The first part of this evening will atempt to bring into light his essential federative role as a programmer and creator. The screening will start with Focalises (1980) and will carry on with works by filmakers that were close to Marcel Mazé and went along with him as“travelling companions”.  We are borrowing this image from Raphaël Bassan who is the co-founder of the CJC and with whom this special screening is organised.

    Laurence Rebouillon & Gabrielle Reiner

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  • VIDEOvoiddeck

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    Unconsciousness/Consciousness by Lavender ChangVIDEOvoiddeck
    Sunday April, 8th, 10-18h
    The Random Room at The Substation, 45 Armenian Street, Singapore 179936

    As part of the minimART2.0 exhibition there will be a very strong and fresh line-up of video art works and experimental films. VIDEOvoiddeck, curated by Wesley Leon Aroozoo, is a 100 minute-long programme of videos by over 20 artists including new works from inspiring and coming up artists. The program is also strengthened with works from seasoned artists. The audience will also get to experience different perspectives from international works from our friends in Europe.

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