Events

  • Takahiko Iimura: Between The Frames

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    Takahiko Iimura: Between The FramesTakahiko Iimura: Between The Frames
    March 19 – April 11, 2011
    Microscope Gallery
    4 Charles Place, Brooklyn NY 11221
    Opening Reception Saturday March 19, 18-21h
    with live 16mm projection performance of the ever-changing “Circle and a Square”

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    Saturday, March 19, 2011 (All day) to Monday, April 11, 2011 (All day)

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    MICROSCOPE GALLERY (previous) - New York, United States

  • Formal Environmentalism: Recent Work by Steven Ball

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    Aboriginal Myths of South London (Steven Ball, 2010)Formal Environmentalism: Recent Work by Steven Ball
    Wednesday March 23rd, 20:35h
    Australian Centre for the Moving Image
    Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia

    Formal Environmentalism looks at contemporary artist Steven Ball and the provocative work he has most recently produced.

    Ball has been creating fascinating works in many different formats since the 1980s. A curator, writer and moving image artist, his works explore the geography and topography of physical landscapes and technological environments.

    Working largely in London and Melbourne, Ball has played a significant role in Melbourne's film culture, with particular influence in the Super 8 Film Group. Formal Environmentalism focuses on his work since his return to England in 2000.

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  • Xcèntric: Robert Beavers

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    The Suppliant (Robert Beavers, 2010)Xcèntric: Robert Beavers
    Thursday March 17, 20h, 4€
    CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona, Spain

    Robert Beavers started making films at a very early age, offering reflections and lyrical notes on the “architecture” or composition of film, dialoguing with the traditions of European art. In 1967, together with his partner Gregory Markopoulos, he left the US and began a cycle of films made in Venice, London and different parts of Greece. Thereafter, the two of them restricted screenings of their films. From the Notebook of…, which Beavers made when he was 21, is a seminal film in his body of work: filmed in Florence, it is based on the notebooks of Leonardo and Valéry’s essay about the artist, and establishes parallels between the treatment of space in the Renaissance and in moving images. Pitcher of Colored Light (2007) is his first film made in the United States since 1967: a meditation on memories and the changing seasons in a portrait of his aged mother in her garden, amid shadows, slanting shafts of light, movement and stillness. It was voted second best avant-garde film of the 2000s by Film Comment magazine. The session also presents the last work of the filmmaker, The Suppliant (2010). [Screening in 16 mm]

    Programme:
    - The Suppliant, 2010, 5 min.
    - Pitcher of Colored Light, 2007, 23 min.
    - From the Notebook of..., Italy, 1971/1998, 48 min.

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  • The Lighthouse Series: Stan Brakhage's Vancouver Island Quartet

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    The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (Stan Brakhage, 2000)The Lighthouse Series: Stan Brakhage's Vancouver Island Quartet
    Friday, Macrh 18th, 20h
    Cinecycle
    129 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    The Loop Collective is proud to announce the start of a long-awaited new cycle of The Lighthouse Series for 2011!

    Join us on March 18th at Cinecycle (129 Spadina Ave., Toronto), as we present Stan Brakhage's immense late work, The Vancouver Island Quartet, for one of the first-ever public screenings in its entirety with a special introduction by filmmaker, author and theorist R. Bruce Elder.

    This event is the first of four Lighthouse programmes scheduled for 2011, which will include several additional Canadian premieres and artists' talks this coming Summer, Fall and Winter.

    Now in its fifth year, The Lighthouse Series has consistently devoted itself to promoting experimental cinema in Toronto, including significant presentations of legendary practitioners (Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Harry Smith, Larry Jordan, Jack Chambers, Pat O'Neill, Ed Emschwiller, Hollis Frampton, Joyce Wieland, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Rubin) and premieres of new and recent works by contemporary makers, including guest presentations by Carl Brown, Michael Snow, Richard Kerr, Double Negative Collective, Pim Zwier, R. Bruce Elder, Alex Geddie and members of Loop.

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  • Takahiko Iimura: Between The Frames

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    Takahiko Iimura: Between The FramesTakahiko Iimura: Between The Frames
    March 19 – April 11, 2011
    Microscope Gallery
    4 Charles Place, Brooklyn NY 11221
    Opening Reception Saturday March 19, 18-21h
    with live 16mm projection performance of the ever-changing “Circle and a Square”

    Microscope Gallery is honored to present the first Brooklyn solo exhibition of the film and video pioneer Takahiko Iimura. Between The Frames is a comprehensive exhibition featuring works made from 1975 to the present, many of which are constantly evolving. The new suspended installation “400 frames” uses ink drawings from 1975. A new print series “MA: The Stones Have Moved” are made from digital drawings related to his 2004 animated video of a Zen garden in Kyoto of the same title. Also on display: Iimura’s famous 1993 “funny faces” silkscreens and video game installation based on Derridda’s “Differance” dealing with physicality of language “AIUEONN Six Features“, never-before-seen sculptures made from 16mm film loop and more.

    Iimura has been working with the moving image on film since the 60s and video since the early 70s. After moving to New York in the late 60s became involved with the avant garde scene along side Yoko Ono and Nam Jun Paik and is recognized as one of the most important Japanese artists today. His work is shown widely with numerous solo shows including MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the National Gallery Jeu de Paume, Paris, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo. Iimura currently lives and works in Tokyo and NYC.

    “His [Iimura’s] Japanese origins contributed decisively to his uncompromising explorations of cinema’s minimalist and conceptual possibilities. He has explored this direction of cinema in greater depth than anyone else. To review all of Iimura’s work…is an important occasion for all who are concerned with the development and pleasure of cinema as an art.” — Jonas Mekas

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  • Dvblog screening

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    Snow Haiku (Martha Deed, 2011)Dvblog screening
    Saturday March 26th, 13h-17h
    The Museum of Club Culture / Hull
    10 Humber Street, Hull HU1 1TG, UK

    Since the summer of 2005 DVblog has been an online resource for art & entertainment movies in QuickTime format.

    Saturday 26th March will see an offline manifestation of DVblog. A 45 minute programme of artists moving image will be screening continuously at The Museum of Club Culture from 1pm - 5pm

    Artists featured:
    Martha Deed, Steven Ball, Robert Croma, Eddie Whelan, Rupert Howe, Morrisa Maltz, JimPunk, Donna Kuhn, Millie Niss, Kerry Baldry, Giles Perkins, Sam Renseiw, Alan Sondheim, Nathaniel Stern, Liz Sterry.

    "We interpret our mission widely - whilst we don’t turn up our noses at the trivial, popular & amusing we also try to post the best (and the most intriguing or challenging) in new video work, so daily posts are exclusively prepared by folk who are themselves involved in making video work. We’ve insisted on always having a QuickTime copy of each piece for our server and so we have built up a large historical archive of the explosive development of online art video over the last few years'. dvblog

    Curated by Michael Szpakowski and Doron Golan

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