Events

  • Sheffield Fringe 2014

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    Film at the intersection of art and documentary

    This year’s extended edition of Sheffield Fringe (June 6-14) considers the relationship between aesthetics and emergency politics, manifested as experimental narratives. Encountering both domestic and institutional arrangements, cultural conditioning, and national political milieux, the ethics of artistic agency and representation are brought into question as filmmakers cross-examine their chosen subjects from many angles. Improvisation may inform both subject matter and approach, with egos incisively and humorously dismantled; the specifics of a given place or circumstance may be scrutinized. The films, performances, and discussions that make up Sheffield Fringe 2014 are by turns playful and unsettling, with monologue emerging as a strategy for preservation, and dialogue as the option to move things forward into the future.

    Dates: 

    Friday, June 6, 2014 (All day) to Saturday, June 14, 2014 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Bloc Projects - Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • Early Monthly Segments #63: Susan Oxtoby + Lis Rhodes

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    This month Early Monthly Segments is delighted to be presenting three films that are distinguished by their political and critical resonance while exhibiting a profound, poetic and unique handling of the materials and form of film. In Light Reading Lis Rhodes uses a series of still photographs to suggest a mystery, or perhaps more accurately to explore the tropes of the language of mystery. Layering images and text both still and moving, and playing with repetition and image registration and measurement Light Reading is as much about the characteristics of film and photography and who is the subject and/or the object of such as the story it skirts. Similarly layered and elliptical A Cold Draft functions as a multifaceted poetic reportage of the experience of those left behind in the trickle down dystopia of the 1980s UK. The voice of a single narrator comes to embody a chorus of defeated subjects surviving perpetual oppression. Susan Oxtoby’s All Flesh Is Grass revolves around the exploration of the ruin of a 19th century shopping arcade in Buffalo NY, combined with footage of spaces, friends, children and characters in Toronto and in New York City.

    Dates: 

    Monday, May 12, 2014 - 20:00 to Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Gladstone Hotel - Toronto, Canada
  • Atelier Impopulaire: Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder with Claudio Rocchetti

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    Entanglements is a multiple projection performance by Luís Recoder and Sandra Gibson that invites sound artists to process the optical film tracks from up to four 16mm projectors. The scratched opaque footage is not what interests us per se but the effect it has in dispersing or scattering the projected audio-visual event itself.

    - Entanglements for (up to) Four Projectors (2009 – 2014)
    Multiple 16mm projectors, black & white film loops, mixed media, live optical sound processed by Claudio Rocchetti, 60 minutes

    The following day, Saturday May 10, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder will install a special version of Threadbare.

    - Threadbare (16mm projector, film, reels)
    “Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder look back at the history of film technology. Their richly imaginative installations and sculptures treat celluloid and the projector in ways that are surprising and evocative. Their artworks are poetic and beautiful, offering profound insights into the nature of the medium. Threadbare (2013) is a film projector wrapped in 16mm film footage whose silhouette calls to mind Mickey Mouse.” - John G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Dates: 

    Friday, May 9, 2014 - 20:30

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  • Mex-Parismental 9

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    For this ninth edition, in collaboration with the Collectif Jeune Cinema, Mex-Parismental, unveils a cinema of creative filmmakers of the young generation from Mexico and Latin America. This annual event is an unique opportunity to stay informed about the most contemporary experimental cinema and video from Mexico to the Southern Cone. Mex-Parismental will take place this year on Tuesday, April 29 at Point Ephemere to highlight this cinematographic production. The Artists, filmmakers and videographers represented in this edition, offer us a beautiful journey regardless of clichés and establish an intercultural encounter, far from the political and social dictates of their country of origin.
    Curated by Angelica Cuevas Portilla

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 19:00 to Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    Point Éphémère - Paris, France
  • Two Ways Down

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    Adams and Ollman is pleased to announce Two Ways Down, Laura Heit's new hand drawn animated installation, on view May 2 through May 31. Please join us for an opening reception with the artist on Friday, May 2 from 6-8pm.

    Reflecting on the momentary nature of life, Heit’s fantastical piece uses thrown shadows from tabletop dioramas and reflected and refracted animated projections to create a fleeting world where human-animal hybrids, specters and body parts morph and flit across the walls.

    Dates: 

    Friday, May 2, 2014 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Adams And Ollman - Portland, United States
  • Light Industry: Brian Frye - The Waste Books

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    Writing of Joseph Cornell, Jonas Mekas remarked that his films “deal with things very close to us, every day and everywhere. Small things, not the big things…His works have the quality—be they boxes, collages, or movies—of being located in some suspended area of time.” One finds a similar sensibility in the films of Brian Frye, particularly so in a cluster of 16mm works completed around the turn of the 21st century, just as the end of small-gauge cinema seemed all too immanent. At once literal actualities and sphinx-like artifacts, Frye’s films might at first seem like outtakes from lost projects, or damaged archival isolates, bearing grainy images that beg for exegesis: Kennedy-era actors awkwardly intone lines from a portentous melodrama; a woman’s face flits in and out of legibility beneath a storm of visual debris; a old man points to a weathered gravesite, his lips mouthing silent words; Civil War soldiers maneuver at the edge of a forest. These moments play like misplaced bits of someone else’s memories, physical records of our world mysteriously unmoored from their origins.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Light Industry - New York, Estados Unidos
  • Unconscious Archives #12: Mattin, Makino Takashi, Pant

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    Unconscious Archives transverses noise core and vision spectacle bringing together expanded cinema and sonic propositions from London and afar. Re-launching in 2014, UA is back with a spectacular lineup that’s sure to be an explosive jaunt around your subconscious and physical being. Mattin is back in London after a prolonged exodus to unleash his intense, reflexive ideology on our unsuspecting selves. Makino Takashi experiments on us with his special brand of corporeal cinema. And Pant will deliver us into the unknown combining blues, projection arts and dance in a free-form musical folk tale.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Apiary Studios - London, United Kingdom
  • Live Soundtracks: The film works of Dirk de Bruyn

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    Six musicians improvising live soundtracks to the films of Melbourne experimental guru Dirk de Bruyn.

    Dirk de Bruyn has been creating film works for over 35 years; mostly in the hand-made, 'direct animation' mode. He also performs live with multiple projections of his films in a highly embodied mode of expanded cinema performance. His work is renowned for its intricate, suggestive layering of sound and image, and use of sumptuous, blooming fields of colour.

    Featuring: Mark Pedersen, Brigid Burke, Nat Grant, David Kimball, Todd Anderson-Kunert & Leo Kavanagh.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 20:00 to Friday, May 23, 2014 - 19:55

    Venue: 

    Longplay Bar and Cinema - Melbourne, Australia
  • Scratch Projection: Hybridation

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    Carte blanche to Kim Knowles (Black Box, Edinburgh International Film Festival)

    In a post-screening discussion at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2013, veteran experimental filmmaker Michael Snow referred to the contemporary technological moment in terms of ‘mediums eating mediums’. The current state of analogue obsolescence might indeed be conceived in the context of consumption – one medium rendered obsolete by another, and framed by the wider drive towards (capitalist) progress and commodity culture. But thinking about the relationship between different mediums does not necessarily mean replacement (a negative formulation) but coexistence. In this sense, exploring the field of hybrid practice allows us to reflect on notions of medium-specificity, looking at ways in which different media may enter into a dialogue with each other. It offers a way out of the either/or polarisation that often surrounds the debate about analogue and digital technologies, and shows how the merging or alternating of mediums and formats widens the cinematic palette. This programme brings together films that approach the theme of hybridisation or coexistence in different ways, often explicitly staging the question of obsolescence in creative terms, and foregrounding cinema as a constantly shifting mode of perception.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    Cinéma Action Christine - Paris, France
  • Symmetries and abstractions: Films and videos by Scott Stark

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    With Scott Stark in Person!

    White Light Cinema is excited to welcome Scott Stark, who will present a small sampling of his film and video work. Stark has selected four new and recent works—Bloom (2012), Speechless (2008), the double 16mm film Nocturnal symmetries (2014), and his amazing digital video The realist (2013)—along with an early film, Hotel Cartograph (1983).

    Together, these five works are a mapping of many diverse aspects of Stark’s artistic practice. From his formal investigations into symmetry, patterning, abstraction, and mirroring that can be found in many of his works to inquiries into the perceptual and phenomenological nature of the media (film, video, digital) to the act of seeing, and questions of representation. They are also visually rich works, concerned as much about color and texture as they are with structure. They are about rhythm and movement, either on screen or in the editing. Sometimes they are humorous. Sometimes they are political (in the broadest sense). Sometimes they are provocative/provoking. Always they are stimulating—visually and intellectually.

    Over the last 34 years Stark has created an uncompromised body of work that is remarkable in its complexity and simplicity, its rigor and playfulness, and its focus and openness.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 19:00 to Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 18:55

    Venue: 

    The Nightingale - Chicago, United States

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