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  • Exploring Jeff Keen

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    Jeff KeenExploring Jeff Keen
    Saturday 19 November 2011
    Old Courtroom, 118 Church Street, Brighton
    Presentations and discussion 11:00-15:30h

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    Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 11:00 to Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 10:55

  • American Originals Now: Fred Worden

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    Possessed (Fred Worden, 2010)American Originals Now: Fred Worden
    December 11 & 17, 16:30h
    National Gallery of Art
    Fourth Street and Constitution Ave., NW, 20565 Washington DC

    Since the 1970s, Fred Worden has been making experimental films primarily to examine "how a stream of still pictures passing through a projector at a speed meant to overwhelm the eyes might be harnessed to purposes other than representation or naturalism." With wholehearted revelry in cinematic illusion and a commitment to kinetic abstractions, he produces short films and digital videos that draw attention to subjective perceptual play through the manipulation of visual phenomena. Assistant professor of art at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Worden has produced work exhibited at festivals and venues in Paris, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, London, New York, and Toronto.

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  • Oporto apresenta #26: Bleu Shut

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    Oporto apresenta #26: Bleu ShutOporto apresenta #26: Bleu Shut
    Friday, November 18, 2011, 22:30h
    Oporto, Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente, 1200-399 Lisboa

    "Bleu Shut" by Robert Nelson
    16mm film, color, sound, 33', 1970

    Robert Nelson is a celebrated film-maker that turned down the glories of the avant-garde for the joys of backyard projectionism. His films are ironic constructions, open questions made for the pleasures of gathering. “Bleu Shut” fits right in the so-called tradition of participatory-film. The film is an experiment built around a guessing game, where the act of “seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees”. *

    “On the cognitive mechanisms of boat-naming and its effect on the uncertainties of the real.” - Alexandre Estrela

    *title of book by Robert Irwin

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  • The Night and the Day: Italian Experimental Cinema 1905–2010

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    Secondo il mio occhio di vetro (Paolo Gioli, 1971)Is there is a tradition of experimenting in Italian cinema? That is the question that the Austrian Filmmuseum's eleven-programme, eighty-film retrospective "Die Nacht und der Tag: Italien Experimental 1905–2010" (November 23-30) tries to answer. Curated by Giulio Bursi and Federico Rossin, this retrospective deals with the concept of 'experimental' in its widest sense: from artists' films like Carmelo Bene's Hermitage or Michelangelo Antonioni's Vertigine, Baruchello & Grifi's seminal 'La verifica incerta', experimental works by Pierfrancesco Bargellini, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Paolo Gioli, Alfredo Leonardi and Aldo Tambellini to documentaries, home movies, commercials, slapstick comedy, found-footage films... Each programme, centered around a common theme, presents a cross-time and genre selection of films, many of them recently restored or rediscovered.

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  • Zipangu Fest & Kinema Nippon Presents: Nippon Re-Read

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    Shibuya-Tokyo (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2010)Zipangu Fest & Kinema Nippon Presents: Nippon Re-Read
    Tuesday 22nd November 2011, 19:30
    Café Oto in Dalston
    18-22 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL

    Zipangu Fest returns with a strong experimental film programme for 2011, thanks to curator Julian Ross. Come and enjoy a fine spectrum of experimental moving image works from Japan, for a good cause! All proceeds from this screening will go towards Japan disaster relief via Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin.

    The films in this two-part programme from Kinema Nippon (curated by Aily Nash and Nine Yamamoto-Masson) range from late 60s to contemporary works. Although varying greatly in their formal and aesthetic concerns, the works all rigorously reexamine the everyday through their respective experiments and innovations in their medium.

    In addition to the film programme outlined below, Bo Ningen - London's premier noise rock band - will perform their live soundtrack to 'Cat Soup' - a wonderfully surreal and deceptively simple landmark in experimental animation inspired by the manga artist Nekojiru. Tatsuo Sato pays homage with an explosion of colours and twisted deliriums that follow Nyatta's series of eccentric encounters as he journeys in attempt to retrieve his sister's half-soul.

    The soundtrack was specially commissioned by the Branchage Film Festival.

    This screening is part of the Zipangu Fest 2011 main festival (18-24 November 2011).

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  • Enter the Cosmos: Takashi Makino

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    Into Your Star (Takashi Makino, 2011)Enter the Cosmos: Takashi Makino
    Saturday, 19 November 2011, 20:30h
    Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cinema 1
    The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

    As part of the Zipangu Fest 2011

    The Enter the Cosmos: Takashi Makino programme brings together three representatives works by the leading light of Japan's contemporary experimental film scene. Words feel woefully inadequate to describe Makino's practice, where the abstract is drawn out of the real through the layering of images, flickers of light and the perpetual movement of dots and grains. Screen space is redefined with a flattened image surface that engulfs our peripheral vision and feels deeper the closer we focus our eyes. Pulsed drones by the foremost international talents of noise and soundscape music, including Jim O'Rourke, Machinefabriek and Makino's own sound collages, not only accompany his visual cacophony but interweave to concoct a breathtaking audiovisual experience of transcendent measures. This programme tracks Makino's career, beginning with Intimate Stars (2004), that maintains a certain level of clarity into his later works Elements of Nothing (2007) and Into Your Star (2011), which delve deeper into the abstract through spatial fusion, repetition and carefully coordinated optical vibrations.

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  • Exploring Jeff Keen

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    Jeff KeenExploring Jeff Keen
    Saturday 19 November 2011
    Old Courtroom, 118 Church Street, Brighton
    Presentations and discussion 11:00-15:30h

    Brighton-based artist and film-maker Jeff Keen is one of the great figures of the British postwar avant-garde. Keen's work embodies a wild spirit of anarchic play, a fascination with surrealism, and a love of popular culture. A year-long retrospective in 2011/12 of Keen's work will take place throughout Brighton & Hove. The retrospective will be launched with the event Exploring Jeff Keen, a day of presentations, screenings and discussion on Keen’s work and its curation. Speakers include Frank Gray (Cinecity and Screen Archive South East), Stella Keen (Jeff Keen's daughter), William Fowler (Curator,  Artists’ Moving Image, BFI) and Curators Jenny Lund and Suzie Plumb of Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.

    Tickets are free but please reserve as space is limited. Please reserve a place by calling Brighton Museum & Art Gallery events on 03000 290902.

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  • Unconscious Archives #3

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    Etienne’s Hand (Richard Touhy, 2011)Unconscious Archives #3
    Tuesday 15th November , 20-22:30h
    no.w.here
    First Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 OAG
    Presented by no.w.here and OtherFilm

    Unconscious Archives is a bimonthly series which seeks to deepen the context between sound and dark, silence and light. Traversing noise core and vision spectacle, each UA brings together expanded cinema and sonic propositions from London and afar.

    This UA features a very special live film performance by Dirk de Bruyn, screenings from Richard Tuohy, and sound performances from Londoners Tim Goldie and Mandlebrot.

    1. Dirk De Bruyn - Australia
    Retina reflux from Dirk de Bruyn’s extensive film catalogue from the last 30 odd years. De Bruyn selects 16mm hand stamped, bitten, scratched and scathed films for reformat and regeneration in his multi projector, shadowy torchlight expanded cinema + concrete noise performances.

    "My hand-drawn direct work remains my regurgitated creative life-blood, continually re-inscribed with the follies and hesitations of my everyday life. It speaks to me of things I have never said. It survives viscerally outside the outside. It impacts my body before thought floods in."

    2. Richard Tuohy - Australia - Nanolab
    Artist filmmakers Richard Tuohy and Diane Barrie run Nanolab, a simply incredible super 8 hand processing and telecine lab in Victoria, Australia. Richard presents some rarely seen films which explode the chemical, physical and metabolic processes that define the film laboratory.

    - Etienne’s Hand (16mm; B/W; 13 minutes; Sound; 2011)
    A movement study of a restless hand. Made from one five second shot. Sound constructed from an old French folk tune played on a hand cranked music box.

    - Screen tone (3 x 16mm projectors; B/W; 10 minutes; Sound; 2011)
    Half-tone dot ‘screens’ intended for use as shadings and tones in Manga comic illustrations have here been ‘photogrammed’ directly onto raw 16mm film stock.  A flicker collage of these dots has then been created using a 16mm film printer.  The sounds heard are those that the dots themselves produce as they pass the optical sound head of the 16mm projector.  This is a camera-less and sound-recorder-less film!

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