Events

  • Black Sun Cinema: White Noise

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    Black Sun Cinema: White Noise
    A film programme curated by Florian Wüst
    in association with Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, and Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin
    Saturday September 22nd 2012, 19h
    TDC, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St., Cork

    Black Sun Cinema is partnering with Cork Film Centre this September 22nd to present a very special evening of experimental films from Berlin’s famous Arsenal archive. We are delighted to welcome Florian Wüst, Berlin-based artist and film curator, who programmed and will present this selection of works with the theme ‘White Noise’.

    White Noise’ centres on legendary German underground film icons Wilhelm and Birgit Hein and gives Cork audiences the rare opportunity of seeing four of their films.

    The programme as a whole reflects the deconstruction of cinema and television not only as a monolithic system of representation and a dream factory, but also as an instrument of corporate power and social control. Images of (human) disfigurement and the mysteries of childhood mix with the penetration of the senses on different levels. The combination of poetic collage, critical analysis, and radical abstraction intends to challenge the emotional as well as physical capacities of the audience. ‘White Noise’ also features works by internationally acclaimed artists and filmmakers: Thorsten Fleisch, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Sharon Lockhart, Gunvor Nelson, Richard Serra & Carlota Fay Schoolman, and Wolf Vostell.

    Where possible, films in this programme will be projected from 16mm film prints.

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  • Flash Brides: Performances by Bruce McClure

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    Bruce McClureFlash Brides: Performances by Bruce McClure
    From Saturday September 15th to Sunday September 30th 2012
    France and Switzerland Fall 2012

    'My projection performances celebrate the incandescent beauty of 16 mm projectors and their role in driving desirable reactions in the metabolism of energy from one form to another. Light is modulated at the front gate by the limbic roll and chatter of loops patterned with emulsion. Once screened for the eye these patterns are commented on by the optical sound system from every corner of the room. Itinerate, the two projector works that accompany me on this tour accommodate themselves to any space and are measured only by attention. The territory of provisional occupancy by this work is well known but any familiar feature can become distorted making orientation difficult and likely to be abandoned. As they say, “How can something be missed if it never goes away?”' - Bruce McClure

    Equipment:
    (2) Eiki SSL-0 optical sound projectors
    (2)10 Amp variable transformers for dimming the lamps on my projectors.
    (8) Low voltage guitar effects pedals:
    (2) MT-2 (metal zone)
    (2) DD-6 (digital delay)
    (2) DD-3 (digital delay)
    (2) GE-7 (graphic equalizer)
    (1) Mixer (Alesis Multi Mix 6FX)

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  • Echo Park Film Center: Abraham Ravett

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    Notes for a Polish Jew (Abraham Ravett, 2012)Echo Park Film Center: Abraham Ravett
    Saturday, September 8, 2012, 20h
    Echo Park Film Center
    1200 N. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, California USA

    Abraham Ravett will present a program of recent and previously made films. The screening includes three films that reflect the complexities of filial relationships; the lingering impact of the Holocaust, and with Horse/Kappa/House, the Japanese rural landscape is presented as a space of loss, memory and collective history.

    Programme:
    - The March (1999)
    - Horse/Kappa/House (1995)
    - Tziporah (2007)
    - Notes for a Polish Jew (2012) (on DVD)

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  • Ship to Shore

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    Study of a River (Peter Hutton, 1997)Balagan and Magic Lantern Cinema Present:
    Ship to Shore
    Experimental land- and seascape documentaries by Peter Hutton and James Benning
    Two outdoor film events:
    Friday, August 24th, 20h
    Norman B. Leventhal Park, Post Office Square, Downtown Boston
    Saturday, August 25th, 20h
    Grant’s Block, 260 Westminster St., Downtown Providence

    Balagan and Magic Lantern Cinema have collaborated to present a pair of outdoor film events on consecutive nights in Boston and Providence under the banner “Ship to Shore,” evoking the seafaring histories of their respective cities. Each screening will present one feature film and one short film by acclaimed experimental filmmakers Peter Hutton and James Benning – two artists who share a similarly contemplative approach to place-based documentary film practice while still retaining strikingly original styles of filmic analysis and expression. A former merchant seaman, Hutton has documented four decades of voyages through such places as the Yangtze River, the coastline of northern Iceland, and the Hudson River Valley in his majestically photographed films, which merge observational and diaristic modes of narration, and whose reverent depictions of landscape have been compared to the work of Thomas Cole and the nineteenth-century Luminist painters. Benning has been producing meditative portraits of the American landscape for as many years, creating works that blend rigorous formal concerns with a deep investment in national politics, local histories, and the environment. Along with receiving a host of awards and critical accolades, Hutton’s and Benning’s films have screened at highly prestigious festivals and institutions throughout the world, such as the Vienna International Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate Modern in London.

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  • One Minute Volume 6

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    Over The Horizon (Emily Richardson, 2012)One Minute Volume 6, the latest in the series,  will premiere at The Horse Hospital (Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD) from 19h on Thursday September 27th as part of The London Underground Film Sessions.

    One Minute Volume 6 is curated by filmmaker Kerry Baldry and includes work by:
    Kelvin Brown, The Gluts, Eleni Xintaras, Michael Szpakowski, Paulo Menezes, Leister/Harris, Emily Richardson, Chris Paul Daniels, My Name Is Scot, Lumiere: Sam Renseiw and Son: Philip Sanderson, Alex Pearl, Gordon Dawson, Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker, Michael Woody, Marty St. James, Janine Schneider, Steven Ball, Tina Keane, Katherine Meynell, Gary Peploe, Priya Sundram, Chris Meigh-andrews, Louisa Minkin and Alex Schady, Kerry Baldry, Barbara Rosenthal, Riccardo Iacono, Esther Johnson, Martin Pickles, Ron Diorio, Edwin Rostron, Guy Sherwin, Lynn Loo, Juan Zamora, Helen Judge, Stuart Pound, Nicki Rolls, Rose Butler.

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  • Ivan Ladislav Galeta retrospective

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    Sfaíra 1985-1895Ivan Ladislav Galeta retrospective
    As part of the K3 Short Film Festival
    August, 23rd, 21h, Visionario, Udine
    with the presence of the author

    Ivan Ladislav Galeta’s small cinematic universe is indefinite but not infinite; sometimes he lets you see the edges. By Vassily Bourikas, curator of the Experimental Forum - Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The author will be present and explain the concept of his films with his famous flipchart-drawings.

    Ivan Ladislav Galeta was born in the Kraj Gornji village, near Zagreb. He graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb (1967), followed by a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Teacher Training (1969) and Pedagogy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (1981). From 1977 to 1990, he was the manager of the University of Zagreb Students Multimedia Centre (MM), the first systematic venue for the screening of national and international experimental film and video art in Croatia. He was the founder and manager of the art cinema Filmoteka 16 (1991-1994). He initiated the introduction of animation (2000) and new media studies (2004) at the same Academy. In 1993 he became an associate media lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and since 2007 he has been a full-time professor. He has been making films since 1969 and videos since 1975. From 1973 he has been exhibiting objects-installations, photographs-installations, expanded cinema presentations, video and TV works, texts, sound installations, spatial interventions, environmental projects and actions. In the mid 1990s he adopted an environmental approach to art with references to Henry David Thoreau, Karel Capek, Masanobu Fukuoka, Bill Mollison, James Joyce, Bela Hamvas, Claude Monet and others. His works are kept at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Centre Georges Pompidou, Oberhausen, Croatian Film Clubs’ Association… He has won numerous awards, including a medal of honour by the Ministry of Culture and Communications of the French Republic in 1999.

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  • Barbara Hammer: Incorporating ‘The Lesbian Museum’ and ‘The Hidden Hammer’

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    Barbara HammerBarbara Hammer: Incorporating ‘The Lesbian Museum’ and ‘The Hidden Hammer’
    Saturday August 25th, 2012, 15h
    Red Lecture Theatre, Summerhall
    1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL

    Co curated with Jeremy Fernanado, Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School and Fellow of Tembusu College at The National University of Singapore.

    Fresh from retrospectives at the Tate , MoMA and Jeu De Paume, the acclaimed pioneer of queer cinema Barbara Hammer speaks at Summerhall on the body of work that has made her an internationally celebrated artist and feminist. A key figure in American experimental film, she is credited with producing the earliest avant-garde films that openly address lesbian life and sexuality. She has made up to 80 films to date and continues to exhibit as a visual and performance artist Her work remains fundamentally influential to contemporary artists exploring daring and experimental thought and film.

    A sneak peek of Barbara Hammer at the Jeu De Paume Gallery in Paris : https://vimeo.com/44533833

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  • Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema

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    Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka, 1960)Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema
    August 17 - September 22, 2012
    UCLA Film & Television Archive - Billy Wilder Theater
    10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024

    Austria’s avant-garde film tradition, arising at mid-century (and thus, relatively later than those of other Western nations) has been among the most sustained and radical of such traditions. As with other Austrian arts, it is a response (in part) to past national decadence and entrenched conservatism; its repository of cutting-edge experimental film and video works is uniquely impressive and progressive, fracturing into ever-newer distinctions.

    The programs in this series have been constructed from avant-garde films and videos produced between 1955 and 2010 in which virtually every technique and genre imaginable is employed, from formalist and structuralist works by such globally renowned figures as Peter Kubelka, Peter Tscherkassky and Martin Arnold, to the radical work by performance-based artists such as VALIE EXPORT, Mara Mattuschka, Kurt Kren and the Viennese actionists, as well as the boundary-breaking contemporary output of artists including Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Johann Lurf and Virgil Widrich.

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  • Ben Rivers: Shorts

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    This Is My Land (Ben Rivers, 2006)Ben Rivers: Shorts
    Saturday August 4th, 16:10h
    Sunday August 5th, 2012 18:40h
    Thursday August 9th, 2012 18:40h
    BFI Southbank
    Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT

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    Saturday, August 4, 2012 - 16:10

    Venue: 

    BFI Southbank - London, Reino Unido

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