Events

  • Scratch projection - Superflux

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    scratch_18_05_10Scratch projection - Superflux
    Tuesday, May 18, 20:30h (doors 19:30h), 6€
    Aux Voûtes, 19, rue des Frigos, 75013 Paris

    Scratch invites for the month of May to Grenoble's Filmbase, Lafoxe and Metalking to Aux Voûtes, for an evening of improvisation if film, video and electroacoustic music.

    Filmbase: Riojim improvises from montages of films he makes, by varying speed, optics, rhythm, deterioration of the film. Lionel Palun captures the image live and reworks it in feedback video, with digital delaying, echoing, stretching or compressing. The result is a striking mix, blending the two materials into a pure dynamic light. The sound is processed in the same spirit as the image, a mix of optical strip of film and video signals become musical elements.

    - Performance Vidéo-Cinéma, 30'
    Riojim (16mm projector)
    Lionel Palun (video-invidere wave)

    Lafoxe: Duo of filmic improvisation. Gaëlle Rouard and Etienne Caire play with modified 16mm projectors and "found footage" processed at the Clinique MTK. A unique experience for a cinema whose ultimate transformation does not definitely fits on the film, but here, live, through interventions on all dimensions of the process of projection. Irreverent and firmly imposed manipulations on films and projectors designed to return the viewer's gaze. He can see the abyss of narrative pretext and founds himself projected to the practice itself of the cinematographic process and becomes able to feel certain fragile intuition of what film is. Lafoxe has developed his process after 10 years with the Cellule d’Intervention Métamkine and the musicians of the European improvisation scene.

    - Performance "Expanded Cinéma", 30'
    Gaëlle Rouard & Étienne Caire
    for two 16mm projectors

    Metalking: One plays the projector as the other plays the bass for a cinema of hallucinatory high energy noise! A performance by Metalking is concentrated and intense: Bronson improvises a quick and strong Japanoise. The working methods of Riojim are also crudely relevant: he applies a serious treatment to the projector, playing with the film and the noise-to-optical film developed in the Atelier MTK. Bronson says, "I do not really make music for the film. We do not make music for the film, we explore the relationship between sound and image as a collaborative experience" - Also often directed to the subversion of expectations in affirmation and joy of the music-making collective. Watching a performance by Metalking signals the truth of this.

    - Performance, 30'
    Richarles Bronson (bass + electronics)
    Riojim (film 16mm)

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  • Migrating Forms 2010

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    Migrating Forms logoThe second edition of Migrating Forms, a 10-day festival reincarnation of the NYUFF, will take place next May14–23 at Anthology Film Archives in New York. The festival's extensive programme, divided into 32 sessions, features the latest experimental and documentary films, like Kevin Jerome Everson's Erie, Harun Farocki's Zum Vergleich, the latest films by Robert Todd, Peggy Ahwesh, John Gianvito, Andrew Lampert, Lav Díaz, David Gatten... as well as several partial retrospectives of Jean-Marie Straub, Ed Ruscha, Kerry Tribe, Stanya Kahn and Jean-Pierre Gorin's Southern California trilogy.

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  • Desbordamiento de Val del Omar

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    Granada 1968/1974 (José Val del Omar, 1968 & 1974)Next May 13th at the Centro José Guerrero in Granada, Spain, begins the long-awaited exhibition "Desbordamiento de Val del Omar". Curated by Eugeni Bonet, the event will include several sections featuring the life and works of spanish filmmaker José Val del Omar, from the Misiones Pedagógicas epoque, his Tríptico Elemental de España film trilogy, his investigations and cinematographic inventions, poems, essays... The exhibition will display many documents, photographies, films and experiments never previously shown to the public. An eponymous catalogue will be published, with many texts written for the occasion by Thomas Beard, Eugeni Bonet, Nicole Brenez, Víctor Erice, Carlos Muguiro and Manuel Palacio among others. José Val del Omar: Escritos de técnica, poética y mística, will be an independent volume compiling a wide selection of text by Val del Omar, edited and annotated by Javier Ortiz-Echagüe, and includeing an essay by Santos Zunzunegui.

    The exhibition will be at Granada until the 4th of July. In September it will travel to Madrid's MNCARS, with an expanded content, where it'll be in display until Febreuary 2011. Coinciding with the start of the exhibition at the Reina Sofia Museum, spanish label Cameo will release a DVD pack with Val del Omar's film work, including many extras and unseen footage, Eugeni Bonet's feature film Tira tu reloj al agua, made using unfinished films and notes left by Val del Omar, and an audiovisual thesis by Javier Viver.

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  • William Raban: Beating The Bridges and Thames Film

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    Thames film (William Raban, 1986)William Raban: Beating The Bridges and Thames Film
    Thursday May 13th, 20:45, £3
    Somerset House Screening Room
    The Strand, London, WC2R 1LA

    Renowned filmmaker William Raban presents two works that reflect on the sights and sounds of the river through an approach that takes in the documentary, the archival and the poetic. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist led by Dr. Jonathan Dronsfield.

    - Beating the Bridges (1998, 11 mins)
    - Thames Film (1986, 66 mins)

    Described by Peter Ackroyd as a film of “beauty, sublimity and terror” Thames film travels along the river length creating a reflective, ambivalent approach to cinematic Modernism. Narrated by John Hurt, it is the closest Raban comes to a conventional documentary, incorporating archive film from 1921-51, panoramic photographs taken in 1937. Brueghel the Elder’s painting “The Triumph of Death” and T.S. Eliot reading “Four Quartets”. Raban centres a study of the sites of modernity, and the meanings that time has inscribed into them, on the Thames. Beating the bridges uses the 30 bridges of the Thames as a range of acoustic space that is featured on the soundtrack by ambient reverb and a live percussion score.

    For the last 25 years, William Raban’s films have been partly concerned with documenting East London. These films include Sundial (1992), A13 (1994), Island race (1996), Beating the bridges (1997), Firestation (2000), MM (2002) Ayshe’s tale (2008) and the forthcoming film About Now MMX. All these films adopt an experimental method that is combined with a documentary approach to the subject material. They have been shown on television and screened widely at international documentary film festivals such as Marseilles, Lisbon, Leipzig and Amsterdam. William Raban lives and works in London and is currently Reader in Film at LCC, University of the Arts London.

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  • One Minute (Volume 4)

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    One Minute Volume 4
    the fourth in the series of artists' moving image curated by Kerry Baldry

    will preview on Thursday 6th May at Moors Bar, Crouch End, 57 Park Road, Crouch End, London, N8 8SY on Thursday 6th May from 6.30 – 8.30pm.
    It will also continuously screen Saturday and Sunday (8th and 9th) 11am - 9pm as part of the Crouch End Open studios weekend.

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    Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 18:30 to 20:30

  • Directors Lounge: Friends & Lovers and a Bedroom Bear

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    Directors Lounge: Friends & Lovers and a Bedroom Bear
    Friday May 7th, 9pm (doors 8pm)
    Meinblau, Pfefferberg
    Berlin Mitte, Christinenstraße 18

    Friends & Lovers, curated by Alexei Dmitriev and Andre Werner is a shameless biased selection of personal favorites. “There is a bunch of folks who’s films we find great and whom we then met in person and found them great too. It’s a gang. It’s a family. That’s what “Friends & Lovers” are about.” - Alexei Dmitriev

    Featuring Usama Alshaibi, Thorsten Fleisch, Masha Godovannaya, Jean-Gabriel Periot, Keith Sanborn and Zhen Chen Liu, just to name a few.

    The screening will be followed by an audiovisual concert of Bedroom Bear.

    Bedroom Bear — a solo project of Sergei Dmitriev — dreamy and thoughtful new new age made with only hardware devices from Saint Petersburg, Russia.

    Combining psych folk aesthetics with melodious lo-fi, he recreates the scent of Karelian forests.

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