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  • Courtisane Festival 2012

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    A little more than two weeks left until the beginning of the 2012 Courtisane Festival (March 21-25, Ghent, Belgium). Now in its eleventh year, the festival keeps a solid programme as ever with their 'Artists in focus' section, with expanded projectionists Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder (who will perform their new work ‘Aberration Of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure’ with Olivia Block on the opening night)Ben Russell & Ben Rivers;and Philippe Grandrieux. Each artist will be the protagonist of a series of different events including performances, installations, masterclasses and, of course, screenings. The 'Profiles' section presents monographic programmes dedicated to filmmakers Gabriel Abrantes, Sung-A Yoon, Naomi Uman's Ukrainian Time Machine and the recently deceased George Kuchar's Weather diaries. And last, but not least, the competitive section includes films and videos by Ute Aurand, Bonnie Begusch, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat, Mati Diop, Fabian Euresti, Janie Geiser, Beatrice Gibson, Kwon Hayoun, Robert-Jan Lacombe, Laida Lertxundi, Rose Lowder, Gary Mairs, Valérie Massadian, Pavel Medvedev, Nicolás Pereda, Charlotte Pryce, Alina Rudnitskaya, Jani Ruscica and Isabelle Tollenaere. Details on the full programme will be published soon.

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  • Millennium Film Workshop: Tejido conectivo

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    Tejido conectivoMillennium Film Workshop: Tejido conectivo
    Luís Macías and Adriana Vila
    Friday March 9, 2012 20h
    Millennium Film Workshop 66E 4th Street, New York

    Luís Macías and Adriana Vila present a night of expanded cinema focusing on three converging threads; found footage performances, light environments created through film loops, and movie-less projection. The project is conceived in the form of changeable installations and / or film performances made of found home movies. Projected as simultaneous overlapping stories, Tejido Conectivo focuses on the creative recycling of unknown memories, and celebrates the materiality of cinema making visible the hole process of projection and manual intervention, creating the appearance of visual and audio atmospheres live.

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  • Scratch Projection: Steven Woloshen - Scratchatopia!

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    Editorial (Steven Woloshen, 2009)Scratch Projection: Steven Woloshen - Scratchatopia!
    Tuesday 13 March 2012, 20h
    Cinéma Action Christine
    4, rue Christine, 75006 Paris, France

    Born in Montreal in 1960, Steven Woloshen began to make animated films without a camera while still a student, first in Super 8 and then 16mm. The early films of Woloshen seem to owe nothing to McLaren. Son of Dada was developed rather in reference to Kurt Schwitters, while Didre Novo, perhaps because of the Maasai rhythm of its soundtrack is more reminiscent of Len Lye's Free Radicals. He returns to filmmaking in 1996, after a hiatus of nearly 12 years. Woloshen is the origin of a work which, while evolving, remains a consistent, particularly because it denotes an attractiveness unchanged for a cinema that is both festive and formally demanding.

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  • Joshua Bonnetta’s American Colour

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    American Colour (Joshua Bonnetta, 2011)WNDX & Cinematheque co-present
    Joshua Bonnetta’s American Colour
    WNDX & Senufo Editions LP / DVD release and screening
    Friday March 9, 2012, 21:15h
    Winnipeg Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3, Canada

    Acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Joshua Bonnetta will present a selection of film and video works including his most recent American Colour. This film is a unique experiment exploring the various values, cultural and visual, of Kodak’s legendary, and recently discontinued, Kodachrome film stock. This beautiful and meticulously constructed film combines Kodachrome colour fields with footage Bonnetta shot while travelling across the American Midwest from Rochester (Kodachrome’s birthplace and the home of Kodak), to Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas, the only laboratory in the world to still process Kodachrome at the time of his journey. American Colour was processed in the very last batch of Kodachrome ever to be processed. Live composed sound featuring field recordings taken on the trip will be performed by Bonnetta. This event also serves as a launch for the WNDX / Senufo Editions dvd/lp release of American Colour with monograph text by Irene Bindi.

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  • David Hall - End Piece...

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    TV Interruptions, for Scottish Television (David Hall, 1971)David Hall - End Piece...
    16 March - 22 April 2012
    Private View Thursday 15th March 6:30-8:30
    Wednesday-Friday 11-19h, Satyrdays & Sundays, 12-18h
    Ambika P3 Gallery, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

    The contemporary reworking of one of David Hall’s early major works ‘101 TV sets’ will form the centrepiece of the exhibition. '1001 TV Sets (End Piece)' features 1,001 cathode ray tube TV sets, of all ages and conditions, which will fill the massive Ambika P3 subterranean space. The TVs will be tuned to different analogue stations playing randomly in a cacophony of electronic signals, gradually reducing between April 4 and April 18, as the final analogue signals are broadcast from London’s Crystal Palace. When transmission is turned off, the multiple sets will emit only terminal audio hiss and a visual sea of white noise.

    David Hall’s first works for television appeared unannounced on Scottish TV in 1971. The transmissions were a surprise, a mystery, and have been acknowledged as the first artist interventions seen on British television. An installation version of these early ‘TV Interruptions’ will be exhibited in Ambika P3 alongside ‘Progressive Recession’ a multi-screen interactive work utilising 9 cameras and 9 monitors as complex analogical mirrors.

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  • Atelier Impopulaire #1: Bruce McClure

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    Bruce McClureAtelier Impopulaire #1: Bruce McClure
    Bruce McClure: The 16 mm Lecture for Film & New Media
    Thursday March 1st 2012, 10-13h & 14-17h
    NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), Milan
    Bruce McClure: Performance  
    Friday March 2nd 2012, 20.30h
    O’ via pastrengo 12, Milano Isola

    O' and Die Schachtel inaugurate Atelier Impopulaire, a new cycle of events starting from March, curated by Pia Bolognesi and Giulio Bursi.
     
    Atelier Impopulaire is a contamination of research practices, editorial and site-specific curatorship that arises from direct collaboration with the artists. In its first phase, Atelier Impopulaire will focus on the study and reinterpretation of Structural Cinema, Avant-garde, Performative and Expanded, to address cross-cultural path on the film device in its experimental forms, through a program that includes performances and screenings of artists and filmmakers of different generations: Bruce McClure, Morgan Fisher and Ben Russell.

    Atelier Impopulaire starts next March 1 with a seminar by Bruce McLure 'The 16 mm for Film & New Media Lecture' at the Department of Film and New Media NABA, Milan, and a performance by the artist on Friday, March 2 at 20:30 in the O' space.

    Investigator of the cinematic apparatus, architect and 'performer of light and darkness', among the most prominent names in American Expanded Cinema, host of the most famous festivals in the world (Rotterdam, Toronto, New York) Bruce McClure (NY, 1959) presents a performance projection for the O' space and the cycle Atelier Impopulaire. "Its events immerse the viewer in the complete darkness of the room, lit by flicker shots(the pulsing image of the projector light): sound beats and visual loops synaesthetically drag the viewer into a space dominated mostly by the sound and the force of the flashing and flickering lights of the image. Darkness and light are palpated, you can taste and see: a battery of 16mm projectors, modificated by him" -for the performance of Milan he will use two simultaneously-projected film loops generating cones of light which are then synchronized with sounds and noises (...). Mixer and electronic pedals help him to create a sound / optical universe with high-impact and fully immersive. His live performances are very close to the expanded cinema, a film that dominates the space beyond the screen, not the fictional diegesis of the film, but the universe palpable and effective, though virtual, a room made from darkness and light, a shared space between the projectionist and the viewer, between those who create and those who receive the light " (by Massimiliano Fierro).

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  • Projektion - Lucide

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    Weird War (Albert Alcoz, 2011)Projektion - Lucide
    Thursday, March 1st, 2012, 19:30h
    kunstraum t27/Kunstverein Neukölln, Thomasstr. 27, 12043 Berlin-Neukölln

    This Projektionen programme on the "Lucidness" theme represent different artistic struggles with dream states, with different awareness ...

    Curated by Deborah S. Phillips

    - Paysages humains (Alice Baillaud, Performance, ca. 10 Min)
    A winter dance with immobile, transparent figures. Again and again, flit past a young woman in summer dress and a big kid too - until the wind carries them away, and intimate, fleeting thoughts whisper that could also be ours.

    - Anxious Automation (Richard Serra, 16mm, 5 Min, 1971)
    Two camera views by Joan Jonas, which performs a series of four movements, while the cameras into the picture - and zoom out of it. The movements of the actor and the cameras enter into a reciprocal relationship - with a soundtrack by Philip Glass.

    - Naturfilm (Tsuyoshi Harada, 16mm, 14 Min, 2007)
    The water, light, waves and the wind meet and cross, creating images in motion.

    - Mater (Anke Doepner, 16mm, 6 Min. 1991)
    The film begins with a boat ride. The water flows in streams, trees lose their leaves. At the end a daughter settles accounts with her mother, with a knife.

    - Weird War (Albert Alcoz, Super 8, 9 Min, 2011)
    Weird War is a found-footage film consisting of documentary on Super 8 measures. Explosions happen backwards, soldiers are injured, even deleted using direct methods on the film. At different levels, the film proves that war is always nonsense.

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  • 30-30 Vision

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    Sanctus (Barbara Hammer, 1990)30-30 Vision
    Thursday, March 1st, 2012, 19h
    Arts @ Renaissance, 2 Kingsland Ave., Williamsburg (Garden Level)

    Round Robin Collective presents 30-30 Vision, a program of experimental films and videos exploring medicine's charged relationship to the body. Showing work by both mature and emerging filmmakers, the works delve into fantasies surrounding photography's proximity to rational study, the social structures control, and left-over institutional spaces of empty corridors and rooms. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Caitlin Berrigan, Katherin McInnis, and Mary Billyou will be in attendance for conversation afterward.

    Program is as follows:

    - Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained, Martha Rosler, 1977 (shown as a loop)
    - 1-9, Mary Billyou, 2008
    - Concoctions, Caitlin Berrigan, 2004
    - Underexposed: The Temple of the Fetus, Kathy High, 1994
    - Shelter, Katherin McInnis, 2012
    - Sanctus, Barbara Hammer, 1990

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