Internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1954-2019) created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre, as he explored and exploited material idiosyncrasies of his sources – whether chemically altering the emulsion of Hollywood films and personal home movies or détourning the digital gaming universe of Grand Theft Auto.
Dates:
Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 14:30 to Sunday, May 5, 2024 - 18:30
April 15, 5-6:30 p.m. Screening and artist conversation California College of the Arts Timken Lecture Hall 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco
Part of CCA Visual and Critical Studies Forum and co-presented with / (Slash)
Image: The Land at the Bottom of the Sea, 2023, 4K video with two-channel audio, 27 minutes, 30 seconds. Courtesy of the artist, Upstream Gallery (Amsterdam), and Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong).
Invitation for the upcoming art event in Montreux, exhibiting 24 artist moving image works accompanied by a site-specific work by Protoplast: https://www.protoplast.ch/ an artist collective from Basel, Switzerland.
Dates:
Saturday, April 6, 2024 (All day) to Saturday, May 4, 2024 (All day)
A space for experiences and questions, kinships and solidarities 20.04.24 - 19.05.24
Opening 20.04.24, 19:00 21.04.24, 13:00-15:00
How do you show love in a movie? Who is your audience? Why do you think you can use archives? Will there be a song in your movie? Why is there so much fear and what can you do about it?
During the workshop ARCHIVAL LANDSCAPES that took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and online throughout 2023 we collected personal stories and family histories, sounds and images and created films using the method of found footage.
Dates:
Saturday, April 20, 2024 (All day) to Sunday, May 19, 2024 (All day)
Film manipulates textures of the ordinary, and magic is conjured in its folds. The shorts in Something Spilled study the cracks where imaginary leaks into real: questions of memory, certainty, and liminality arise. Curated by Emma Dollery and Mary Rose McClain, the program features 8 films by an eclectic group of local and international filmmakers whose take on the theme, differing widely in aesthetic mode, is a testament to an abundance of mysterious callings.
Microscope is very pleased to present a solo screening of film and video works by New York-based artist Anto(n) Astudillo. The screening will take place both in person and online, with a Q&A with the artist following the screening.
In the seven works on the program, Astudillo considers the effects of two concurrent personal transitions: the gender affirming process of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and their experience as a US immigrant from Chile during the past twelve years.
The international competition at Alternative Film Video features recent moving image works that challenge the status quo of aesthetics and politics in contemporary film and video practices.
