Events

  • Cinema Project: Makino Takashi

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    still in cosmos (Makino Takashi, 2009)Cinema Project: Makino Takashi
    June 1 and 2, 19:00h, $7 Suggested Donation
    Clinton Street Theatre
    2552 SE Clinton St., Portland, OR, USA

    Cinema Project brings Japanese video artist Makino Takashi to Portland for two nights of dynamic images and sound, including the world premiere of his newest work Inter View with a live score composed and performed by Portland-based musicians Tara Jane O'Neil and Brian Mumford. Preceded by a night of short recent videos with soundtracks composed by Jim O'Rourke, Takashi's work is experimental and abstract, exploring dark and crackling landscapes heightened by the transfer process from film to video. He will be in attendance to present and discuss his work.

    Takashi describes his latest work, Inter View, as "dark, fast, complex, blue, and poetic," revealing the potential intangibility of his images. For this world premiere, curated and presented by Cinema Project, Takashi collaborates with Portland-based musicians Tara Jane O'Neil and Brian Mumford who will perform live their original score.

    With glimpses of representation rising to an often scratched and hand-painted surface, texture is key in the work of the Japanese artist. Combining his images with dynamic soundscapes created by experimental musicians like Jim O'Rourke, Takashi's work is a seemingly tenuous bending of both time and space. A telecine master, Takashi uses the transfer process to translate initially film-based images into crackling digital landscapes, making him part of a new generation of Japanese experimental film and video artists.

    Tuesday June 1st
    - No is E [2006, video, color, sound, 23 min.]
    - Elements of Nothing [2007, video, color, sound, 20 min.]
    - still in cosmos [2009, video, color, sound,18 min.]
    All music by Jim O'Rourke

    Wednesday June 2nd
    - The Seasons [2008, video, color, sound, 30 min.] music by Jim O'Rourke
    - while we are here [2009, video, color, sound, 15 min.] music by COLLEEN
    - The Low Storm [2009, video, color, sound, 16 min.] music by Lawrence English
    - Inter View [2010, video, color, 25 min.] original score performed by Tara Jane O'Neil and Brian Mumford

    Supported in part by a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council

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  • Directors Lounge: Within Landscape and Time

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    Directors Lounge: Within Landscape and Time
    Video Works by Elena Näsänen
    Wednesday May 26th, 21:00h, 4€
    Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte
    Directors Lounge: Within Landscape and Time
    Elena Näsänen’s reference for her work on video is the big screen, the glory of grand cinema, and with that, the picture of nature in cinemascope. She is one of the few artists who work exclusively on video, and who are rarely shown on a cinema screen. Instead, the audience finds her work in art shows, galleries and international exhibitions.

    The films of the Finnish artist who lives in Helsinki contain structures of narrative cinema: most of them are written by the artist, are played by actors, and they are building up a suspense of uncanny possible occurrences, which the audience anticipates to happen. In “Before Rain” Elena uses fragments of Hollywood crime movies that stay unresolved, in “Night” a female character follows an urge to leave the house at night searching through the adjunct woods, and in “Wasteland” a group of women are on their way to an unknown task and destiny.

    There are two other elements, however, that seem to mark Elena’s work just as strongly: time and nature. Time is strictly connected with images. If her images stay in our memory, their time seems to persist, thus making time ambivalent, a “film time” that stands still or becomes endless, depending on the viewer. Nature, on the other hand seems to dominate the image, and Elena’s characters. Maybe, Elena Näsänen here revives a contemporary view onto the sublime other: Nature as it has become the unfamiliar other for us city dwellers. And this mystery may be contained by the Australian outback, the Chinese yellow mountains, or the Finnish landscape.

    Artist Link:
    http://www.elenanasanen.com/

    Directors Lounge
    http://www.directorslounge.net/
    More infos and video stills:
    http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesElenaNasanen.html

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  • Oporto apresenta #19: Clearchannel Mountain Range Frontier Expansion Tracking Shot So Far

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    "Clearchannel Mountain Range Frontier Expansion Tracking Shot So Far" by Jessie Stead
    Digital video , color, sound, 17' 44''
    Saturday, May 22, 2010, 23:00h
    Oporto, Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente, 1200-399 Lisboa

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    Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 23:00 to Sunday, May 23, 2010 - 22:55

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    Oporto - Lisboa, Portugal

  • Media City 2010

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    Lumphini 2552 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2009)Canada's Media City Festival reaches its 16th edition next May 25th, presenting over 75 film and video works from all over the world during its 5-day run. Canadian Film and Video and Regional Artists programmes will feature works from national and local filmmakers such as Daichi Saito, John Price or Chris Kennedy, while six international programmes will offer the chance to see new works by veteran artists like Ute Aurand, Julie Murray and Vincent Grenier along with new talents like Mati Diop, Arnaud Gerber and Alexandra Cuesta. This year's edition will also feature two partial retrospectives dedicated to Johan van der Keuken and Friedl Kubelka, including a talk with the later and an exhibition of her photographs. You can download the festival's catalogue here.

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  • Nathaniel Dorsky: Three Films

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    Threnody (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2004)Nathaniel Dorsky: Three Films
    Thursday 20 May 2010, 19:00h, £7
    The Cinema Museum
    The Master’s House, 2 Dugard Way, London, SE11 4TH

    Join us for a very special evening with Nathaniel Dorsky, one of the most influential and articulate experimental filmmakers working today. Dorsky will present three films, including 17 Reasons Why, which is showing for the first time in London. The filmmaker will introduce tonight's programme, read from his wonderful book "Devotional Cinema", and participate in a Q&A with the audience.

    - 17 Reasons Why (1985-87, 19 minutes)
    - Variations (1992-98, 24 minutes)
    - Threnody (2004, 24 minutes)

    “The films of Nathaniel Dorsky blend a beauteous celebration of the sensual world with a deep sense of introspection and solitude. They are occasions for reflection and meditation, on light, landscape, time and the motions of consciousness. Their luminous photography emphasizes the elemental frisson between solidity and luminosity, between spirit and matter, while his uniquely developed montage permits a fluid and flowing experience of time. Dorsky's films reveal the mystery behind everyday existence, providing intimations of eternity.” (Steve Polta, San Francisco Cinematheque)

    This event is also a fantastic opportunity to discover the beautiful world of The Cinema Museum, which houses one of the richest collections of cinema memorabilia from the earliest days to the present.

    Curated by The Dog Movement.
    Handmade silkscreen posters will be for sale on the night.

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  • Experimental Film Forum 2010

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    A new festival is born in Singapore. The first edition of Experimental Film Forum, subtitled 'Experiments in progress...' will be held next May 20-23 at the Substation Theatre. Highlights include a programme of local experimental films curated by filmmaker Victric Thng with emphasis on the work of Tania Sng; a workshop and screening on S8 films directed by Russel & Gozde Zehnder; a panel on the history of experimental films in Southeast Asia, the recent spate of experimental films and the direction of experimental cinema; and a symposium on distribution and the 'Human Frames' project by Lowave co-founder and filmmaker Silke Schmickl.

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  • Oporto apresenta #19: Clearchannel Mountain Range Frontier Expansion Tracking Shot So Far

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    "Clearchannel Mountain Range Frontier Expansion Tracking Shot So Far" by Jessie Stead
    Digital video , color, sound, 17' 44''
    Saturday, May 22, 2010, 23:00h
    Oporto, Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente, 1200-399 Lisboa

    Jessie Stead is a multi-purpose dadaist and motion-picture maker currently based in New York. Using a variety of inexpensive means she produces assorted interdisciplinary media works that often combine image, music and text with a meandering conceptual focus. Her approach to motion-picture is as a kind of “adhesive” used to synthesize unlikely collaborations of seemingly disparate subject matter, formal strategies, technological experiments and other people. The piece "Clearchannel Mountain Range Frontier Expansion Tracking Shot So Far" is an ambitious, involving and extensive travelogue that challenges the imagination. A video-scroll portraying a domesticated landscape that allows one to remain contemplative.

    "A thunder of spring over distant mountains" - Alexandre Estrela

    Oporto is a studio and a non-profit screening room located in Lisboa. Occupying the former Merchant Sailors Union headquarters, Oporto projects from time to time a single unique experimental video or film. The programme is exquisite and extremely slow.The selection of the pieces screened is made, not only on the basis of the work itself, but also on an overall idea of an exquisite corpse . The space is directed by artist Alexandre Estrela, in cooperation with designers and associate program managers Antonio Gomes and Claudia Castelo a.k.a. Barbara Says and artist Miguel Soares. Sponsored by GAU- Gestão de Audiovisuais.

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