When image and language are paired together, written and spoken words can reposition the image’s hierarchical role and create an opportunity for a new point of view. In this program, Korean female filmmakers use text itself as a material—either directly burned into the film or inserted as voice over—to push cinema towards a radical location or realm, engaging with an expansive legacy of colonial power dynamics.
The practice of recycling cinematographic images is almost as old as cinema itself. While it has frequently had a utilitarian, documentary or ideological function, it is also intimately tied to the history of avant-garde cinema since at least the 1930s. While many found footage films and artists associated with the practice are relatively well known, less is known about the nature and provenance of the images that are found and repurposed.
Chicago Filmmakers hosts VASTLAB's VLX4 Tour date in Chicago, April 15 at 7PM Central.
Combining underground cinema and music scenes through inventive modes of exhibition and collaboration, Vast Lab redefines the contours of art spaces and experiences. A trip is always guaranteed.
Featuring work by: Josh Weissbach, Ben Balcom, Hüseyin Mert Everdi, Brendamaris Rodriguez, Steven Woloshen, Tracy Miller-Robbins, John Muse, Qianwen Hu, and many more... including a live performance by Toby Kaufmann-Buhler.
In its 12th edition MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network and Association, will present a public screening of smartphone, mobile and pocket films in Melbourne, Australia at ACMI, national museum of screen culture (24th November 2023), in Ningbo, China (9th -10th December 2023) and internationally via Urban Screen TV.
MINA is the longest-running film festival dedicated to celebrating mobile and smartphone film-making internationally. MINA creates connections between filmmakers, communities and the creative industries.
Analogue Uncanny is a solo exhibition by Sapphire Goss showing hybrids between experimental film, installation and sculpture. The chosen works are studies in light, time and materials using experimental photographic and moving image processes. They explore ways in which materials, objects and places seem to hold memories, using ephemera such as antique lenses, obsolete film formats, film developing byproducts and other techniques to create strange landscapes and forms.
Dates:
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 (All day) to Sunday, May 14, 2023 (All day)
