Events

  • Immagini e Suoni: studi sensoriali e disamine sociali

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    Giovedi’ Sperimentale
    Immagini e Suoni: studi sensoriali e disamine sociali
    Thursday April 18 2013, 22h
    Cinema Filmstudio
    Via degli Orti d’Alibert 1/c – Roma (Trastevere)

    Curated by Piero Pala

    On Thursday, April 18, 2013 there continues the themed programming of experimental and artists' films at Filmstudio. "Images and Sounds: sensory studies and social analysis' investigates the fundamental relationship between the two primary components of cinema where the autonomy of the two "languages" is at the service of audiovisual compositions without persuasive intent. Seven unique films (Manon De Boer, Pierre Hébert, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Karl Lemieux, Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo, Bernhard Schreiner, Georges Schwizgebel) that can be appreciated consistently in a movie theater.

    Programme:
    - Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, 1924, 35mm, b&w and colour, 16’)
    - I colori della luce (Bruno Munari & Marcello Piccardo, 1963, 16mm on DVD, music by Luciano Berio, 5’)
    - Fugue (Georges Schwizgebel, 1998, 35mm, colour, sound, 7’4’’)
    - The Technology of Tears (Pierre Hébert, 2005, 35mm, b&w, 14 min.)
    - Dissection (Bernhard Schreiner, 2005, DVD, b&w, sound, 5’50’’)
    - Western Sunburn (Karl Lemieux, 2006, b&w and colour, music by Radwan Moumneh, 10’)
    - Attica (Manon De Boer, 2008, 16mm,b&w, sound, 9’55’’)

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  • Sarah Pucill: Magic Mirror

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    Sarah Pucill: Magic Mirror
    Monday 22 April 2013, 18:30h
    Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
    Bankside, London SE1 9TG

    - Magic Mirror (Sarah Pucill, UK 2013, 16 mm transferred to digital video, 75 min)

    This screening features the premiere of Sarah Pucill’s new film exploring the work of surrealist Claude Cahun.

    Part essay, part film poem, Magic Mirror translates the startling force of Claude Cahun’s ouvre into a choreographed series of tableaux vivants. Re-staging the French Surrealist’s black and white photographs with selected extracts from her book Aveux Non Avenus (Confessions Untold), the film explores the links between Cahun’s photographs and writings.

    Cahun’s multi-subjectivity, as expressed in both her photographs and book, set the scene for the film, where she dresses and makes her face up in many different ways, swapping identities between gender, age and the inanimate. Three women masquerade as Cahun’s characters: often it is hard to tell them apart. The splitting of identity appears as a double which persists throughout; as literal double through super imposition, as shadow, imprints in sand, reflections in water, mirror or distorting glass. Likewise, the voice is split between differently dressed voices, which at times overlap, and at times are in conversation. The kaleidoscope aesthetic that runs through the film serves not only to weave between image and word but also between the work of Cahun and the films of Sarah Pucill, creating a dialogue between two artists who share similar iconography and concerns.

    The screening will be followed by a discussion between Sarah Pucill and writer, curator and artist David Campany.

    Presented in association with LUX

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  • Sight Unseen presents Contemporary Shorts @ the BMA

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    Sight Unseen presents Contemporary Shorts @ the BMA
    Saturday, April 20 2013, 14h
    The Baltimore Museum of Art
    10 Art Museum Drive., Baltimore, MD 21218
    Free Admission

    Sight Unseen presents a group program of short films and videos chosen in response to the newly reopened Contemporary Art wing at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Featuring both local and international artists, the screening will be followed (a gallery talk relating pieces from the contemporary collection to the works shown.

    Programme:
    - The Hunch that Caused the Winning Streak and Fought the Doldrums Mightily (Stephanie Barber, 2010)
    - Journey to a Star (Tom Borax, 2012)
    - Growing/Innit (Mark Brown, 2008)
    - How to Conduct a Love Affair (David Gatten, 2007)
    - Solar Sight II (Larry Jordan, 2012)
    - Can't Remember, Can't Forget (William Knipscher, 2012)
    - A Lax Riddle Unit (Laida Lertxundi, 2011)
    - Andy at Work (Jonas Mekas, 2006)
    - lions and tigers and bears (Rebecca Meyers, 2006)
    - Dark Windows (Miranda Pfeiffer, 2011)
    - The Biscuit Song (Luther Price, 2008)
    - Landfill 16 (Jennifer Reeves, 2011)
    - Eyecandy (Tasman Richardson, 2005)
    - Audition (Karen Yasinsky, 2012)

    See full programme here.

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  • Intimate Projections: Experimental Diary Films

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    Millennium Film Workshop Personal Cinema Series at The New School
    Intimate Projections: Experimental Diary Films
    Featuring: Barbara Hammer, Peter Hutton, and Amie Siegel
    Wednesday, April 17 2013, 19h
    Wollman Hall
    65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street), New York
    Admission: Free

    The final program in a three-part series presenting personal visions of cinema’s potential as an artistic medium, “Intimate Projections,” features three internationally exhibited filmmakers whose meditative, insightful, and critical engagements with the diary form speak volumes about the aesthetic, political, and historical dimensions of this cinematic mode. From Peter Hutton’s lyrical reverie in the day-to-day to the charged, poetic feminism of Barbara Hammer’s Psychosynthesis Trilogy to Amy Siegel’s examinations of performed and projected identities in appropriated Youtube videos, the works presented in this program explore the vast reach of the diaristic gesture. The screening will be introduced by Howard Guttenplan and followed by a discussion with the artists.

    Presented by the Millennium Film Workshop in partnership with The School of Media Studies and The New School for Public Engagement. The Millennium Film Workshop is a non-profit media arts center located on the Lower East Side. Since 1965 it has promoted the exhibition, production and study of avant-garde and alternative film, video and media art.

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  • Millennium Film Journal No. 57 Publication Screening and Celebration

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    Millennium Film Journal No. 57 Publication Screening and Celebration
    Saturday May 4 2013, 20:30h
    Grahame Weinbren Studio
    119 West 22nd Street, 3rd floor, 10011 New York

    A screening to celebrate the publication of Millennium Film Journal No. 57 "Violence in Artists' Cinema"

    The program consists of works featured in MFJ #57:

    - There is a Myth (Catherine Elwes, 1984, 8.5 min)
    - I Am Micro (Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel, 2011, 14 min)
    - Kuíuipo (Noe Kidder, 2013, 15 min)
    - The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some (Anna Marziano, 2011, 16 min)
    - Ojo Calientes (Pat O’Neill, 2012, 4 min)
    - A Movie (Jennifer Proctor, 2010-12, 12 min)
    - TBA, some of Tony Oursler’s videos from the 1970s

    Admission: $14.00 (includes copy of MFJ 57); $8.00 (admission only)

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  • HASENHERZ N° 10: Rose Lowder

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    HASENHERZ N° 10: Rose Lowder
    Saturday, April 13 2013, 11h
    Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten
    Mariahilferplatz 3, 8020 Graz, Austria

    Born in 1941, french experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder is considered as one of the most influential European figures in experimental film. Starting as a painter and sculptor, studies took her to Lima and London. After many years of work as an editor at the BBC she intensely turned towards experimental filmmaking in 1976. In 1987 she presented some of her work as her thesis The experimental film as an instrument towards visual research. Along these lines she investigates her environment and its perception with a scientific view, using cinematographic tools.

    In 2012 artists Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond start their series HASENHERZ. Imagine the format the following way: International artists are being shown. Duration: Approximately one hour. In the style of Schönberg's Association for private musical performance (founded in 1918) the concept of wanting to understand the new, is now transferred to the medium of experimental film and lyricism:The movies on display are being repeated and in between screenings they are discussed.The same form of presentation applies to readings. As it was the goal of the format`s model “to provide artists and art lovers with a real and profound knowledge of modern music“, similiar should be achieved for the experimental film/video and lyricism. If the artists whose work is being shown, are not present, they can be cut into the discussion via skype or telephone.

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  • Close-Up: Star Spangled to Death

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    Close-Up: Star Spangled to Death
    Sunday 28 April 2013, 13h
    Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
    42-44 Pollard Row London E2 6NB

    - Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs, 2004, 402 min, Colour & B/W, DP)

    We are very excited to present a rare screening of Ken Jacobs's epic, six-and-half-hour "perverse reach for the intolerable" Star Spangled to Death.

    "Star Spangled to Death is an epic film shot for hundreds of dollars! combining found-films with my own more-or-less staged filming, it pictures a stolen and dangerously sold-out America, allowing examples of popular culture to self-indict. Racial and religious insanity, monopolization of wealth and the purposeful dumbing down of citizens and addiction to war oppose a Beat playfulness.

    A handful of artists costumed and performing unconvincingly appeal to audience imagination and understanding to complete the picture. Jack Smith's pre-Flaming Creatures performance as The Spirit Not Of Life But Of Living (the movie has raggedly cosmic pretensions), celebrating Suffering (rattled impoverished artist Jerry Sims) at the crux of sentient existence, is a visitation of the divine." – K.J.

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  • Courtisane Festival 2013

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    Courtisane Festival reaches its 12th edition (April 17-21, Ghent), 12 years of "proposing a counter-geography" of cinema and creating one of the most interesting and devoted festivals in Europe. For this edition the 'Artists in Focus' are documentarian Marcel Ophüls and experimental filmmaker Leslie Thornton, whose Peggy And Fred In Hell (1985-) serves as the main image for the festival. Both artists will be the subject of talks, a workshop and a partial retrospective of their work, together with the recently deceased Stom Sogo.

    'Once was Fire' is one of the main events in the festival, offering a selection of films by António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, Straub & Huillet and specially Greek filmmaker Stavros Tornes. The section 'Artistic research' curated by Alejandro Bachmann & Alexander Horwath presents a 'somewhat tongue-in-cheek approach to the term' through three programmes including films by Dušan Makavejev, Forough Farrokkhzad, Lisl Ponger or Ricky Leacock. Though Courtisane doesn't have a competitive section this year, it continues to offer a selection of recent film and video works grouped in ten programmes with works by Mary Helena Clark, Luke Fowler, Kevin Jerome Everson, Ursula Mayer, Laida Letxundi, Rose Lowder and Peter Todd to name just a few. You can access the festival's catalogue here.

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  • Balagan presents... Vicious Circle

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    Balagan presents... Vicious Circle
    Tuesday, April 23 2013, 19:30h
    Brattle Theatre
    40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Mixing a number of rarely juxtaposed genres, Balagan takes a 360-degree look at cyclical structure and circular form. We are happy to present three locally-based artists and filmmakers: Nicolas Brynolfson, Santiago Gil and Julie Miller; as well as an audiovisual performance by NY-based artist Thomas Dexter and a 1970s' experimental film by Japanese avantgardist Toshio Matsumoto.

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  • Outer/Inner (Space)

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    Outer/Inner (Space)
    Friday April 19th 2013, 19h
    Central St Martins
    Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA London, United Kingdom

    Held at Central St Martins' new Kings Cross building, this screening and performance event will address different spatial configurations in moving image work, using Andy Warhol’s 16mm double projection, Outer and Inner Space (1965), as a point of departure.

    Leading the audience through various interior and exterior spaces around the college for a series of located screenings and performances, the event will foreground concepts of public gesture, private experience and architectural manifestations. The selected works will investigate the dialogue between embodied and screened environments, exploring tensions between filmic and affective realms, raising questions around identity in relation to space.

    The programme is set to include:

    - Outer and Inner Space (Andy Warhol, 1965)
    - ...the traveller walking walking walking through... (Clare Gasson, 2010). Performance originally commissioned by Bridget Crone, Media Art Bath
    - A Study of Relationships between Inner and Outer Space (David Lamelas, 1969)
    - Face of An Other, projected performance by Sally Golding

    Also see the accompanying online exhibition here.

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