Inscribed about artifacts are traces of human activity: gestures, gazes, textures, abrasions. These are the material and figurative qualities which produce historical potentiality. Functioning like spolia, remnant structural fragments used to erect new stone walls, they act as analytical units through which narrative is assembled, eroded and re-constructed.
Join us on Mon 7th March at 6:30pm GMT for the MIA Masterclass with Ceri Hand, founder of Artist Mentor, who will be speaking about the fundamentals of pricing and selling moving image work.
Ceri will discuss the factors to consider when pricing and editioning moving image, how to manage relationships with collectors, and comparative prices for bench-marking. This will be a candid and informative presentation with an opportunity to ask any questions.
CCJ is pleased to co-present with Lightbox Film Center three screening programs under the Japanese Experimental Animation project, curated by Go Hirasawa (2/19), Julian Ross (2/25), and Fusako Matsu (2/11). The final screening curated by Julian Ross features graphic designer Keiichi Tanaami, whose collection has been a focus of our research since 2018. The screening will include new digitizations of Tanaami’s She (1971) and Look at the Wood (1975), as well as Human Events (Ningen Moyō, 1975), which CCJ preserved in 2018. In the screening program, Ross places Tanaami’s works in conversation with contemporary works.
Abstracting the Everyday highlights the vibrant personal visions of eight female members of the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative (est. 1961). Departing from a realist, objective conception of the world, these artists implemented radical new techniques on 16mm to plumb the depths of human consciousness. Sometimes ecstatic, sometimes haunting, the end result is a fascinating glimpse of the interior worlds of some of the most innovative experimental filmmakers of the 20th century.
Everyday life. Actions performed in passing, words uttered automatically, to which we do not attach importance. Performed and uttered constantly, over and over again... so many everyday rituals escape us— repeated countless times, known by heart, they no longer surprise, they become invisible.
On February 19 and 20, Dmitry Frolov's retrospective will take place in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Irkutsk and Tyumen, opening a large cycle of screenings of unknown parallel cinema.
A big conversation between Ira Dmitrieva and Gleb Segeda with a director who embodied the ideas and dreams of poets, expressionists, symbolists, mystics and futurists on Soviet film — https://seance.ru/articles/dmitry-frolov
Dates:
Saturday, February 19, 2022 (All day) to Sunday, February 20, 2022 (All day)
