This month's program of the Confessional. Map of experimental voices section, curated by avant-garde filmmaker Pablo Marín, will be dedicated to the feature film 'Falling Lessonss by Amy Halpern.
Hundreds of faces parading across the screen like a waterfall make up a collective portrait that gradually transforms into a launching pad from which Halpern rehearses a film that denounces another world, at once subtle and radical, lacerating and joyful.
At the end of his 2001 video Dream Story, the celebrated U.S. experimental filmmaker Saul Levine (New Haven, Connecticut, 1943- ) recalls seeming to wake up from a dream, only to find his close collaborator Marjorie Keller (who had died in 1994) next to him: “I said to her, ‘You can't be here,’ and she said to me, ‘But I am.’ And I felt suddenly, totally relieved, and at peace.” To find Levine presenting his work in Mexico City and Oaxaca is likewise at once metaphysically incongruent, perfectly fitting, and a much sought-after occasion for peace.
This celebration of cinema's fringes features a curated collection of the underground's most visionary contemporary shorts. These films are all surreal, abstract or bizarre, and each reveals a bold new path for cinema to take. The resulting experience is a mind expanding fever dream, and it is also an opportunity to meet the filmmakers and other lovers of unusual cinema. So come to Sherman Oaks and meet the next David Lynch or Maya Deren. We promise you will see nothing normal here.
An experimental animation workshop will be held on Sunday 30th June, 2-4pm at Rotherhithe Beach in London at low tide.
Using mobile phones, the workshop will explore improvisation within both traditional stop-motion of beach-combed materials and the making of flicker films. An embodied approach will centre sensory and ecological experiences of the site.
The experimental film series "Tierra de nadie" continues at the Dr. Madrazo Cultural Centre.On Thursday 20 March at 7:00 pm, Cineinfinito will cover the figure of the American filmmaker Raphael Montañez Ortiz.
Archivio Aperto is the festival dedicated to the rediscovery of small-format film heritage - private, amateur, experimental, artist’s cinema - and their reuse, organised by Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia.
