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  • Intimate visions. The cinema of Chick Strand

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    Soft Fiction (Chick Strand, 1979)Intimate visions. The cinema of Chick Strand
    November 15th & 16th 2012, 20h
    Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

    A contemporary of Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner and Bruce Baillie, a joint co-founder of the distributor Canyon Cinema in 1961, Chick Strand (1931-2009) was a seminal filmmaker in the West Coast underground. Her films, pieces of poetic abstraction and found footage, perfectly combine the style and technique of avant-garde cinema with ethnographic issues. This programme, selected by Mark Webber, includes Strand’s most important films, in new copies restored courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

    Thursday, November 15, 20h
    - Cartoon le Mousse (Chick Strand, 1979, 15 min)
    - Mosori Monika (Chick Strand, 1970, 20 min)
    - Angel Blue Sweet Wings (Chick Strand, 1966, 3 min)
    - Loose Ends (Chick Strand, 1979, 25 min)
    - Artificial Paradise (Chick Strand, 1986, 13 min)
    - Kristallnacht (Chick Strand, 1979, 7 min)

    Friday November 16th, 20h
    - Soft Fiction (Chick Strand, 1979, 16 mm, 54 min)

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  • Xcèntric: Realisms, speculations

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    Villatalla (Jeannette Muñoz, 2011)Xcèntric: Realisms, speculations
    Thursday, November 8th 2012, 20h
    Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

    The films of these four directors explore the different layers of reality and thought that exist in things: stone, flesh, milk, birds, trees... All present the world as an infinite void and open up to the diversity and thickness of their matter, using sound and image separately to make the world and its mysteries speak.

    - Villatalla (Jeannette Muñoz, Switzerland/Chile/Italy, 2011, 16 mm, 22 min)
    - Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances (Samantha Rebello, United Kingdom, 2010, 16 mm, 22 min)
    - Born Winged Animals and Honey Gatherers of the Soul (Emily Wardill, United Kingdom, 2005, 16 mm, 9 min)
    - Catalogue of Birds: Book 3 (Jayne Parker, United Kingdom, 2006, video, 15 min)

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  • Directors Lounge - Thorsten Fleisch

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    Directors Lounge Screening: Thorsten FleischDirectors Lounge Screening:
    Thorsten Fleisch
    Video and 16mm Film programme
    Selected from his private Educational Film Archive
    Thursday, 1 November 2012, 21h
    Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

    Thorsten Fleisch, artist and filmmaker who lives in Berlin, combines many of his interests and talents in his new film Hex Suffice Cache Ten. It might be astonishing to see the experimental filmmaker and alumni of Frankfurter Städel School making a science fiction film that combines narrative B-movie aesthetics with experimental film techniques and adaptations of Manga, Cronenberg, Splatter Movie and Cyberpunk. On the other hand, the openness of the film's narrative may be read in many ways, and is possibly not only accessible but totally enjoyable for both lovers of the experimental genre and trash film addicts. In certain ways, Fleisch uses old technological artifacts in order to create science fiction, the lately popular steam punk is similar to the artist's esthetic strategies. However, over the course of the film, the dramatic interactions between the characters of the film are almost entirely resolved by some kind of screen, some intermediate interface. Furthermore, those interactions both stay ambiguous and could be characterized as being driven by irrational forces.

    At the beginning of the evening, Thorsten Fleisch will show a selection from his archive of educational films. He is collecting all kinds of original silent 16mm films from science, often medical movies and educational films meant to be shown in school. These films, from 30's to 50's in esthetic ways to us often seem to be strange. They receive their new meaning by decontextualization and the alienation of time distance. They may appear funny, but the rigor of their esthetic quality may also be disclosed as having psychotic qualities.  Thus, apart from being curiosities, these collected films by Thorsten Fleisch - together with his new film "Hex Suffice Cache Ten"- may remind us of the influences contemporary media has on our subconsciousness by their mere media qualities. Something that might be harder to perceive if looking with naked eye at most recent renderings of "media normality".

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  • body.art.resistance. Homage to Barbara Hammer

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    Lover / Other (Barbara Hammer, 2006)body.art.resistance. Homage to Barbara Hammer
    As part of DOK Leipzig
    29 October - 4 November 2012

    New York’s MoMA and London’s Tate Modern have already celebrated Barbara Hammer with retrospectives. The American pioneer of feminist and queer cinema will be coming to DOK Leipzig for the first time this year and will present several works with which she made film history. Her films typically deal with sexual taboos and marginalized social groups, repressed history, gender roles and discrimination, and the connection between film, mind and body.
     
    This special tribute program stretches from her early experimental work to her more recent documentary essays, in which Hammer explicitly explores the political dimension of art as resistance.
     
    On the sidelines of the tribute program, Barbara Hammer will hold a master class at DOK Leipzig and give a workshop at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig.

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