Embracing the enduring legacy of Jonas Mekas, a visionary who dedicated his life to democratizing film, media, and art, the Monira Foundation and the Jonas Mekas Studio welcomed Chihiro Ito for a six-month-supported Residency and Fellowship in which he worked to support Sebastian Mekas in enhancing the archives and to create new works inspired by that archive. With unwavering commitment, Ito delves into the studio’s rich repository, collaborating with Sebastian Mekas to preserve archival treasures and craft new artistic marvels for ‘Reel to Reel – Jonas Mekas.’ Each week, he immerses himself in the studio’s treasures, infusing them with new life and meaning.‘
Dates:
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:00 to Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 17:10
Helga Fanderl and Nicky Hamlyn will be present to introduce and discuss their work.
Since 1986, Helga Fanderl has made over a thousand 8mm films that record encounters with events and images in the real world. She responds in an intuitive and highly concentrated way to the subjects in front of her lens, discovering cinematic rhythms and relationships in everyday life. Each of her films preserves and reflects the traces of its creation, as well as the sensations and emotions that she felt in the moment of shooting.
The third annual Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, presented by the Oklahoma City University Film Department in partnership with Oklahoma City Museum of Art, will take place April 26 - 28. Five programs will showcase 58 short films from around the world, including works by Tomonari Nishikawa, Lori Felker, Mark Street, Gregg Biermann, Sasha Waters, and more.
Dates:
Friday, April 26, 2024 (All day) to Sunday, April 28, 2024 (All day)
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)
