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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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  • Film-Makers' Co-op at Fifty

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    Sleepless Nights Stories (Jonas Mekas, 2011)Film-Makers' Co-op at Fifty
    July 16–31
    National Gallery of Art
    Fourth Street and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20565

    "We don't want rosy films—we want them the color of blood." Fifty years ago two dozen or so filmmakers—Jonas Mekas, Robert Breer, Shirley Clarke, Stan Vanderbeek, and Jack Smith among them—wrote the nine-point manifesto of the New American Cinema Group, a communal, collaborative organization founded on the principles of "self-sufficiency and free expression through the art of cinema." Acknowledging the force of other movements throughout the world, including Free Cinema in England and the nouvelle vague in France, they seized the moment and established the Film-Makers' Cooperative (incorporated as the New American Cinema Group Inc. on July 14, 1961). In so doing, they succeeded not only in forming their own collective, but they also influenced the formation of other independent, nonprofit, artist-run organizations around the world. This series of five programs celebrates the Co-op, now in its very active 50th year of financing, producing, distributing, screening, and supporting avant-garde cinema. Special thanks to executive director M. M. Serra and to the artists themselves.

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  • One Minute Volume 5

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    One Minute Volume 5 is the fifth in the series of artists moving image programmes compiled by artist/ filmmaker Kerry Baldry.

    Volume 5 will screen from 6pm - 7pm on the 15th July at Aid and Abet, Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2JW

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    Friday, July 15, 2011 - 18:00 to Saturday, July 16, 2011 - 18:55

  • Cinema 16 Benefit Screening for Millennium Film Workshop

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    Cinema 16 benefit for Millennium Film WorkshopCinema 16 benefit for Millennium Film Workshop
    Saturday July 16, 20h
    Millennium Film Workshop
    66 East 4th Street, New York NY 10003

    Cinema 16 presents an evening of avant-garde films with live musical scores in encore performances from past Cinema 16 events, in an evening to benefit the esteemed media arts center, Millennium Film Workshop.

    The evening will include Brooklyn-based, minimal synth trio FORMA (Mark Dwinell, Sophie Lam, George Bennett) performing to Maya Deren's At Land, Brooklyn-based sound artist NICK YULMAN with the 1927 film by Charley Bowers A Wild Roomer, ABLEHEARTS (Brooklyn sound and video artist THOMAS ARSENAULT) performing to Kihachiro Kawamoto's "Dojoji Temple," and singer and artist JOSEPH KECKLER with Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1935

    Melding the worlds of art, music, and film, curator Molly Surno aims to recreate the silent film era, and resurrect the communal performance experience. Bands are invited to compose a musical score in order to modernize the tradition of a live music accompanying films during the 1920s. Cinema 16 initially began in 1947 as a New York based avant-garde film society; now over four decades later, Surno is bringing the spirit of Cinema 16 back to be experienced by a new generation of filmgoers.

    Don't miss this extraordinary one night event.

    Admission: $20 Donation

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