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  • 17th Madrid Experimental Cinema Week

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    17th Madrid Experimental Cinema WeekThe 17th edition of the Semana del Cine Experimental de Madrid (Spain) will be held from 16-23 November. The films in the official competition, all of them made in the years 2006-7, will be screened the weekend of 17-18 November. As in previous editions, there's a special award for works from cinema/video schools. The parallel sections will include programmes of israeli and african cinema and cellular made short films.

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  • 2*TIE 2007

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    TIE 2007This year's edition of the International Experimental Cinema Exposition doubles as to the already announced expo in Montevideo, Uruguay at the end of the year, a new exhibition in Montréal, Canada will be held the weekend of November 2nd-4th.

    This expo will be organized by the Montréal collective Double Negative, and will feature three programmes of over thirty films, curated by TIE founder Christopher May. Filmmakers as Jeanne Liotta, Michael Robinson, Robert Todd, Daichi Saito and Johnathan Schwartz will be present to introduce and discuss their films.

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  • Abstracta 2007 awards

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    Bret Battey's MercuriusThe 2007 edition of Abstracta ,  the international Abstract Cinema exhibition hold last week at Rome, Italy, has announced its winners. This edition's international jury was comprised by Americo Sbardella, Pip Chodorov, Javier Aguire and Simonetta Lux.

    Winner
    - Mercurius by Bret Battey (UK, 2007)
     
    Honorable mentions
    - Energie! by Thorsten Fleisch (Germany, 2007)
    - Symphonie Caténaire by Didier Feldmann (France, 2006)
    - Exploration by Johanna Vaude (France, 2006)
    - White Noise by Dennis H. Miller (USA, 2007)
    - Le possédé by Leonardo Carrano (Italy, 2004)

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  • ATA Film & Video Festival 2007

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    ATA 2007End of the year's festival bonanza continues with the second edition of San Francisco -based Artists' Television Access Film & Video Festival on October 10-12th. The festival will feature two short film programmes with nearly thirty works and an opening party with the projection of Paul Clipson's Illuminations with live music. Several film installations will be featured at the ATA center (992 Valencia St., San Francisco) during the month of October.

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  • LFF 2007: Avant-Garde Weekend

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    lff07.jpgThis year's edition of the London Film Festival brings us again its Avant garde Weekend, Experimenta. During the last weekend of October we'll be able to see several film programmes, curated by Mark Webber, on themes such as identity, poetic perception of nature and the revisitation of the past. Highlights include a new works by Ken Jacobs, Peter Hutton and Robert Beavers, newly restored versions of Carolee Schneemann's films Fuses and Kitch’s Last Meal and a practical workshop with David Gatten 'on the use of text in 16mm filmmaking'.

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  • WNDX 2007

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    wndx2007.jpgThe WNDX Festival of Avant-garde and Underground Film holds its second edition this October 4-7th in Winnipeg, Canada. The WNDX festival, brainchild of filmmakers Cecilia Araneda , Jaimz Asmundson, Walter Forsberg, Solomon Nagler and Carole O'Brien features during its four-day run several curated programs of short films and master classes by filmmakers.

    More details at WNDX.org .

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  • 11th Views from the Avant-garde

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    Helga FanderlThe 2007 New York Film Festival that starts at the end of this month will hold the 11th edition of its section Views from the Avant Garde.

    The festival's parallel section dedicated to "the frontiers of cinematic possibility" will be held at the Walter Reade Theater the weekend of October 5-6th. The programme features the latest works by Peter Hutton, Helga Fanderl, Ernie Gehr, Robert Beavers and a special homage to the recently deceased Mark LaPore.

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  • Michael Snow retrospective at LFF 2007

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    king_lucca_2007_351_x_600.jpgAfter last year's edition, with retrospectives on Stephen Dwoskin and Kenneth Anger, the 2007 edition of the Lucca Film Festival will feature a complete retrospective of the work of Michael Snow. Along with the film restrospective that will be shown at the cinema festival, there will be a retrospective featuring thirteen of his projection works and videoinstallations at the Ragghianti Foundation, Lucca, from 29 September to 4 November 2007.
    The festival will also feature two more retrospectives on the films of Guy Debord and Aldo Tambellini. The LFF 2007 edition will be held from September 28th to October 6th at the city of Lucca , Italy.

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  • Le Grice - Raban - Sherwin / Live Cinema

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    sherwin.jpgFrom June 15th to the 17th, each evening dedicated to one filmmaker, Guy Sherwin (June 15th), Malcolm LeGrice (June 16th) and William Raban (June 17th) will be presenting the performances and screenings of their films at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (Belgium).

    The previous days, 13th and 14th of June, the Shoot shoot shoot touring show (which had a DVD edition last year) will be screened at at the Film Museum. These programmes will be presented by curator Mark Webber and Malcolm LeGrice.

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  • Venice / Vitoria-Gasteiz

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    vatmosph.gif- Conceived as part of slovenian artist Tobias Putrih's project Venetian, Atmospheric , the movie theatre built in the garden on the Island of San Servolo (Venice, Italy) will function "both as an architectural project and a sculpture, a viewing machine meant to create and encourage perceptual illusions". The daily screenings will include monographic programmes of artists from the 50s-70s as well as two programmes of contemporary works. Specially worthy of notice is the John Smith retrospective with the screening of his works Associations (1975), The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Om (1986), The Black Tower (1985-7), Gargantuan (1992) and Regression (1998-9).

    - The NEFF festival at Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) will begin its parallel section D-NEFF (Different NEFF) devoted to experimental cinema this week. Starting tomorrow June 5th and until next Friday, and sponsored by the Goethe Institute, three programmes about german experimental film and video from 1994 to 2004 and one programme about german videclips from 1998 to 2003. D-NEFF's main activities and screenings will be held in October.

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