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  • Light Industry at Film Forum: Black Audio Film Collective

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    Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah/Black Audio Film Collective, 1986)Light Industry at Film Forum: Black Audio Film Collective
    Tuesday, August 30th, 19h
    Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, New York, NY

    - Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah/Black Audio Film Collective, 16mm, 1986, 60 mins)

    In light of the recent waves of social unrest in Britain, we have decided to present a screening of Black Audio Film Collective's seminal essay film Handsworth Songs, which takes the 1985 Birmingham riots as its point of departure.

    "The collective's key work, Handsworth Songs (1986), is a succinct articulation of the dialectic of crisis and difference, and a critical primer - in artistic terms - of transnational post-colonialism. Though Handsworth Songs is an analytical essay on the cultural conditions under which young black men and women in Britain lived, and the racist policing tactics directed against them, the film, produced for Channel Four, did not merely reflect upon the structural violence of Thatcherism. In the aftermath of the protests in Handsworth, the film inhabits a different order of things: it is as much about elsewhere as about Britain.

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  • Fragment of a filmmaker's work: Gunvor Nelson

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    Red Shift (Gunvor Nelson, 1984)Fragment of a filmmaker's work: Gunvor Nelson
    Tuesday, August 23rd, 14:45h, Room 3
    Wednesday, August 24th, 15:00h, Room 4
    Lussas - France

    Lussas' Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire festival (August 21-27) presents a partial retrospective of Swedish filmmaker Gunvor Nelson. Curated by Federico Rossin, the retrospective covers the main themes of her work, from her seminal My name is Oona (1967), one of her earlier and most known works, the impressive and deeply personal Red Shift or her recent video-exploration True to Life.

    Swedish-American artist Gunvor Nelson is among the most important experimental filmmakers of her generation. Shaped by the San Francisco Bay Area scene in the fifties and sixties, she has had an enormous influence on American avant-garde film since her debut in 1965. The basic subjects of her personal, dreamlike and tactile filmmaking are: childhood, memory, the idea of home/homeland and displacement, aging and death, the female body, the material beauty of natural forces. Gunvor Nelson is one of the few Swedish artists who have been honoured with a retrospective at MOMA in New York (2006).

    Click the link to read am interview to Gunvor Nelson

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  • Underground Worlds

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    Underground Worlds
    Wednesday September 28th,20h
    Electric Palace Cinema
    39a High Street, Hastings

    Inspired by Hastings' subterranean network of caves artist and filmmaker Toby Tatum presents an evening of short films which illuminate other secret or hidden places, be they real or imaginary.

    The programme features artists' film and video, experimental film, intimate documentary and short fiction film.

    Presented in conjunction with the Coastal Currents Visual Arts Festival.

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  • Visions: Animation and Abstraction, 1908-1994

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    Harry Smith: Mirror Animations (1956-57, 1979)Visions: Animation and Abstraction, 1908-1994
    Wednesday, August 10th, 19h
    Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle, Washington

    Co-presented by the Sprocket Society and Third Eye Cinema

    A must-see selection of outstanding animated and abstract experimental short films by some of the most highly acclaimed masters of the form(s). Brilliant classics utilizing collage, direct animation, visual music, and other time-space distortions that span nearly 90 years of exploration.

    Featuring works by legendary filmmakers: Len Lye, Harry Smith, Mary Ellen Bute, Émile Cohl, Oskar Fischinger, Lawrence Jordan, Hans Richter, Ed Emshwiller, Stan Vanderbeek, Robert Breer, Stan Brakhage, Piotr Kamler, Jud Yalkut/USCO and more.

    Showing rare 16mm prints from Canyon Cinema (San Francisco), The Film-Makers’ Cooperative (New York) and private collections (Seattle), using a 1,000-watt theatrical-grade projector. Program notes will be provided.

    One show only!

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  • Prints–Images–Words: Jakob Kirchheim

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    Prints–Images–Words: Jakob KirchheimDirectors Lounge Screening
    Prints–Images–Words: Jakob Kirchheim
    film and video works
    Thursday, 28 July 2011, 21h
    Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

    Jakob Kirchheim combines different art genres in very personal ways, genres that usually are not connected with each other. He creates films and paintings using linoleum prints. The seriality of printing initially made the artist experimenting with film. He has used a variety of animation methods without leading him to classic animation forms. The ways Jakob Kirchheim also includes  words and maps then results in political meaningful references, and they partly remind of the styles of agitprop from the 1920's, but also from the 60's and 70's. However, the artists likes to see them as media references rather than just bold political statements. These references seem to say, «Agitprop? Isn't that pure poetry, anyways?» Already in 1987, Jakob Kirchheim conceived his first «Linolfilm», a stop motion film based on linoleum prints as a combination of words and images. Since then he further developed his film techniques using photographs, collage techniques and live footage, and he thus has produced over 20 experimental animation, poetry and documentary films.

    The artist will be available for Q&A.

    (curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr)

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