Feminism and Lesbian Self Representation in Experimental Cinema
Conference with Barbara Hammer, Elisabeth Lebovici and Stuart Comer
Thusrday October 20th, 16h
Auditorium du Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
As part of FIAC 2011. Presented by Koch Oberhuber Wolff, Berlin

Barbara Hammer was born in 1939 in the Unites-States. She is known as the first female filmmaker to address topics of lesbian emancipation. Since the late 60s, the American artist has influenced feminist film practice and constantly participated in related theoretic debates. A classic in experimental cinema, Barbara Hammer has recently gained attention in the art world together with other feminist artists of her generation. The debate with Elisabeth Lebovici, Barbara Hammer and Stuart Comer examines the development of feminist perspectives in the last decades and questions the public recognition of emancipatorial projects.

SAW Video: Public Domain
Wednesday October 5th, 19h
no.w.here
First Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road. E2 OAG London, UK

Library and Archives Canada holds thousands of film documents which are now free of copyright. These documents cover a wide range of historic events which played a role in the collective history of Canada, such as the First and Second World Wars and our industrial development. In addition to documents of these historic events, the large collection of materials also includes home movies of private events such as garden parties, a sporting matches and scenes of camaraderie amongst friends, soldiers and workers. These audio-visual recordings are traces of the private history of individuals, and each provides a different perspective on the passing of time.

In June 2009, SAW Video commissioned 7 media artists to create new video works using public domain materials from the Film/Video/Audio Collection of Library and Archives Canada. The result is Public Domain, a programme of six new videos.

The range of mid-career and established media artists selected for this project represent a broad cross-section of media artists working in Canada. Bringing critical perspectives to bear on their found materials, the artists mine the nature of the image for its visual, narrative, mnemonic and evocative potential. While some highlight the fragility and disappearance of images, others focus on their renaissance through recontextualization.

New work by Gennaro de Pasquale (Montreal), Sara Angelucci (Toronto), Véronique Couillard/Ryan Stec (Ottawa), Suzan Vachon (Montreal), Maureen Bradley (Victoria) and Steve Reinke (Chicago/Toronto)

American Originals Now: Lynne Sachs
Sunday October 16, 16h
Sunday October 23, 14h
National Gallery of Art
Fourth Street and Constitution Ave., NW, 20565 Washington DC

The ongoing film series American Originals Now offers an opportunity for discussion with internationally recognized American filmmakers and a chance to share in their artistic practice through special screenings and conversations about their works in progress. Since the mid-1980s, Lynne Sachs has developed an impressive catalogue of essay films that draw on her interests in sound design, collage, and personal recollection. She investigates war-torn regions such as Israel, Bosnia, and Vietnam, always striving to work in the space between a community’s collective memory and her own subjective perceptions. Sachs teaches experimental film and video at New York University and her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art and the Buenos Aires, New York, and Sundance Film Festivals. Her work was recently the subject of a major retrospective at the San Francisco Cinemathèque.