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  • or-bits: Accordance

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    or-bits.com is pleased to announce the launch of the new online exhibition Accordance, featuring works by
    Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Renee Carmichael, Constant Dullaart, Lucy Pawlak, Ashok Sukumaran, Julia Tcharfas, Ben Vickers , and guest bloggers Sarah Jury and Le Petit Neant.

    In the morning I walked to the bank. I went to the automated teller machine to check my balance. I inserted my card, entered my secret code, tapped out my request. The figure on the screen roughly corresponded to my independent estimate, feebly arrived at after long searches through documents, tormented arithmetic. Waves of relief and gratitude flowed over me. The system had blessed my life. I felt its support and approval. The system hardware, the mainframe sitting in a locked room in some distant city. What a pleasing interaction. I sensed that something of deep personal value, but not money, not that at all, had been authenticated and confirmed. A deranged person was escorted from the bank by two armed guards. The system was invisible, which made it all the more impressive, all the more disquieting to deal with. But we were in accord, at least for now. The networks, the circuits, the streams, the harmonies. Don DeLillo, White Noise, 1985. New York: Viking Press; p.46 >

    Accordance is part of the collaborative exhibition project (On) Accordancewith Grand Union project space in Birmingham.

    At Grand Union a gallery exhibition features offline versions of five artworks presented in previous or-bits.com online programmes that have been selected by Grand Union curators in response to the Accordance editorial, featuring works by Irini Karayannopoulou / M+M /Rosa Menkman / Damien Roach / Richard Sides

    Gallery exhibition launched on Friday 30 November and continues to 19 January 2013.

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  • Jeff Keen 1923-2012

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    Very sad news. Through the Lighthouse blog we've learned of the passing today of British experimental filmmaker Jeff Keen, who had been battling with cancer for several years. This interview was shot at Keen's home in Brighton in 2008, for the BFI's DVD and blu-ray editions of his films.

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  • 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival Awards

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    AAFF logoThe 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival is proud to announce this year's award winning films as chosen the jury: Michael Robinson, Kathy Geritz and Peter Rose.

    Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival: Lack of Evidence (Manque de Preuves) by Hayoun Kwon

    The Stan Brakhage Film at Wit's End Award: Voluptuous Sleep by Betzy Bromberg

    Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film: Palaces of Pity by Daniel Schmidt & Gabriel Abrantes

    Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film: Guañape Sur by János Richter

    Award for Best International Film: Untitled by Neil Beloufa

    Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film: Vexed by Telcosystems

    FILM Award for Best LGBT Film: The Evil Eyes by Bobby Abate

    Award for Best Sound Design: Remote by Jesse McLean

    Kodak/Colorlab Award for Best Cinematography: Undergrowth by Robert Todd and  Within by Robert Todd

    The No Violence Award: If the War Continues by Jonathan Schwartz

    Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film: Sounding Glass by Sylvia Schedelbauer

    Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film: It's such a beautiful day by Don Hertzfeldt and Traces by Scott Stark

    The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist: Ceibas: The Epilogue - The Well of Representation by Evan Meaney

    Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film: Walt Disney's 'Taxi Driver' by Bryan Boyce, Shadow Cuts by Martin Arnold and Pluto Declaration by Travis Wilkerson

    Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker: The Strawberry Tree by Simone Rapisarda Casanova

    George Manupelli Founder's Spirit Award: By Foot-Candle Light by Mary Helena Clark

    Art & Science Award: 20Hz by Semiconductor

    The Eileen Maitland Award: Irma by Charles Fairbanks

    Award for Best Music Video: Go Outside by Cults by Isaiah Seret

    Jury awards:

    - As Above, So Below by Sarah J. Christman
    - Tin Pressed by Dani Leventhal
    - Curious Light by Charlotte Pryce
    - Landfill 16 by Jennifer Reeves
    - August Song by Jodie Mack, Emily Kuehn
    - A Lax Riddle Unit by Laida Lertxundi
    - Quest (Cautare) by Ionut Piturescu
    - The House (Das Haus) by David Buob
    - Envelop by Julianna Barwick by Cam Archer

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  • Courtisane 2012 awards

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    Courtisane logoThe 11th edition of the Courtisane Festival for film, video and media art closed on Sunday 25 March 2012. 

    At the award ceremony, the festival jury − Gabriel Abrantes (PT/US, filmmaker and artist), Marina Gioti (GR, filmmaker and artist) en Jeremy Rigsby (CA, programme director Media City Film Festival - Canada) − announced the winner of the film competition and two special mentions. Directly afterwards the winning works were shown again. 

    The prize was awarded to filmmaker Nicolas Pereda for Entrevista con la Tierra (MEX, 2010). 

    Ambivalently fiction and documentary, Entrevista con la Tierra traces the reverberant silhouette of absence: a child has died, leaving family, friends, and community to grasp at shadows, pursue solace through ritual, pretend nothing happened. Into this void, director Nicolas Pereda probes with questions and camera, enacting a search for reconciliation that speaks to a modern, autochthonous child. 

    De jury over Entrevista con la Tierra 

    We decided to choose this film for its proposal, which is prevalent in the entirety of the filmmakers work, which seeks to reinvigorate a social function in filmmaking, in art. It seeks to use fiction, documentary to build and support a small and geographically condensed group of people, exploring a mixture of their quotidian lives, their past myths and the fictions of their future, this is filmmaking that seeks out and manifests the need and actual use of culture, to link a group of people together in the pursuit of a future together. 

    Special mentions: 

    - Agatha by Beatrice Gibson (UK, 2012) 

    Beatrice Gibson’s latest film Agatha is a psychosexual sci-fi about a planet without speech. Its narrator, ambiguous in gender and function, weaves us slowly through a mental and physical landscape, observing and chronicling a space beyond words. Based on a dream had by the radical British composer Cornelius Cardew.

    - I Will Forget This Day by Alina Rudnitskaya (RU, 2011) 

    “Filmed in Grisaille with a sober eye, Alina Rudnitskaya’s I Will Forget This Day is a wrenching portrait of waiting young women, whose decisions are not always willfully made”. (Andréa Picard)

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  • Moving Image Review & Art Journal first issue online

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    Intellect is delighted to announce the publication of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal. To celebrate the arrival of this groundbreaking journal we are offering issue 1.1 for free online: http://bit.ly/vZzdUf. The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) is the first international peer-reviewed scholarly publication devoted to artists’ film and video, and its contexts. It offers a forum for debates surrounding all forms of artists’ moving image and media artworks: films, video installations, expanded cinema, video performance, experimental documentaries, animations, and other screen-based works made by artists. MIRAJ aims to consolidate artists’ moving image as a distinct area of study that bridges a number of disciplines, not limited to, but including art, film, and media. Reflecting the subject matter this journal contains many innovative elements and includes lots of black and white and colour imagery throughout.

    The first issue contains exciting work from an impressive list of contributors including Catherine Elwes, Maeve Connolly, Erika Balsom and Sean Cubitt. Articles and features represent a broad range of exceptional scholarship including such pieces as 'Brakhage's sour grapes, or notes on experimental cinema in the art world' an article which examines the place of experimental cinema within the contemporary museum in order to challenge the commonly held assumption that it is somehow opposed to, or at least outside, the art world. For a complete list of articles and abstracts please visit: http://bit.ly/yuKTFl. As well as articles and features the journal is also home to a vibrant Reviews section and Founding Editor, Catherine Elwes, frames the whole issue with a rousing editorial.

    Visit the journal online for more details, or please contact James Campbell ([email protected]).

    'Artists' moving image is a hard topic to pin down, and its images and effects are multiple and mutable, but it has a substantial history. Snaring that history – or rather its manifold histories – in the pages of MIRAJ is one of the aspirations of our enterprise' - Catherine Elwes, Founding Editor, MIRAJ

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  • Marcel Mazé (1940-2012)

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    Mazé and Jonas Mekas at Hyères, 1974 One of the iconic figures in the history of 'different cinema' in Europe, Marcel Mazé (1940-2012) passed away last night. Marcé founded and then presided over the years Collectif Jeune Cinéma, the first filmmaker's cooperative in France over forty years ago, in 1971, after the model of Jonas Mekas' Film-Makers’ Cooperative. Film journalist, occasional filmmaker (his best known film is Focalises from 1980), actor in several films of Stéphane Marti, Mazé also helped create the Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris. To better appreciate his passion for 'different films' read the interview that Viviane Vagh made for Senses of Cinema on the occasion of CJC's 40th anniversary.

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  • Experimental Conversations issue 8 - Winter 2011

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    The Winter 2011 issue of the online magazine Experimental Conversations is now online!

  • A Foolish Genius: The Life and Work Of Adolfas Mekas by Philippe Dijon de Monteton
  • Experimental Film Society: Rouzbeh Rashidi in Conversation
  • Projection as a Magnetic Field: The Overflowing of Val Del Omar by Esperanza Collado
  • Sidney Lumet: Experimental Filmmaker? by Fergus Daly
  • Haunting: Apichatpong Weerasethakul by Phillina Sun
  • Concrete Instants: The Filmed Body in Recent Narrative Cinema by Tony McKibbin
  • To Believe In This World: An Interview With Michelangelo Frammartino by Gianluca Pulsoni
  • Part 2 of 'The Thin Line Between Documentary and Fiction' by David Brancaleone

    • Reviews

  • In The Mouth Of The Volcano: Lithuanian Independent Film Screenings in Dublin
  • Toronto International Film Festival 2011
  • Dark, Plastic, Reversal
  • Crash (1971)
  • Audrey The Trainwreck

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  • no.w.here workshops January-February 2012

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    Direct Super 8: A workshop with Ian Helliwellno.w.here is delighted to announce a brand new series of workshops for January and February 2012.

    (1). Colorado: Tinting and toning motion picture film
    Saturday 21st January 2012, 10:30 – 6pm. no.w.here members £80 / £120 non-members.

    Artist filmmaker Kevin Rice will take you through a hands-on exploration of the history, theories, motivations, and concepts behind tinting and toning 16mm motion picture film. The workshop is easily accessible and no previous knowledge of film techniques or technology is required. For more information and a full description please see: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&&id=302

    (2). My life as a silver halide: Pushing, Pulling & Intensifying Black & White Film
    Saturday 28th January, 10:30 - 6:00pm. Price: £80 members, £120 non-members.

    This workshop with Kevin explores the extremities of what is possible in black and white motion picture photography, in order to understand the exact nature of working with the silver halide. Topics that will be covered include: increasing film speed, pushing and pulling film, controlling density & contrast through various chemical and non-chemical processes, and how to effectively execute such procedures before, during and after development. For more information and a full description please see:  http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&&id=305

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  • Millennium Film Journal 55 “Structures and spaces: Cine-installation”

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    Millennium Film JournalMillennium Film Journal 55 “Structures and spaces: Cine-installation”

    Millennium Film Journal issue No. 55 “Structures and spaces: Cine-installation” to be published next March 2012

    The focus of the issue is moving image installation: covering film, video and digital formats. The issue will be generously illustrated. Given the widespread interest in installation among artists, curators, gallerists, collectors, as well as the general public, we expect that the issue will enjoy wide national and international distribution through 2012, and that it will be regarded as a primary source for many years into the future.

    For at least 40 years, artists have been interested in using the moving image in installations. Multi-projector film installations by artists such as Paul Sharits and Michael Snow, as well as video installations by Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Nam June Paik and many others have been exhibited in museums and galleries since the early 1970s, and even before. But it has exploded in the last ten years, to such an extent that the multi-screen installation seems to be the dominating form at major art fairs, biennials, galleries and museums.

    MFJ 55 will examine, analyze, and celebrate the phenomenon of the moving image installation. It includes writings on:
    • the aesthetics of installation art by theorists Laura Marks and Kim Knowles;
    • video artist and musician Steina by Gerald O’Grady;
    • ‘Photographic Memory’ by Martin Rumsby discussing contemporary filmmakers Gregg Biermann, Steven Woloshen, Richard Tuohy and Ben Russell;
    • the history and significance of ‘the loop’ by Ron Green;
    • plus Scott MacDonald’s extensive interview with verteran filmmaker Alfred Guzzetti, and reviews of current exhibitions of works by Paul Sharits, Harun Farocki, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, and others.

    The issue also includes personal memoirs of recently deceased filmmakers whose work had a major influence on several generations of artists: Jordan Belson by Gene Youngblood, Robert Breer by George Griffin, Owen Land by Daryl Chin, and George Kuchar by Marie Losier.

    MFJ welcomes advertising from galleries, museums, exhibitions, publishers, educational institutions, film labs, video studios, production services, and others, and offer a discounted rate for individual artists. Advertising insertion order deadline for the upcoming issue MFJ 55 is Jan 20, 2012.

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