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)
SEA Foundation is looking for One Minute digital moving image submissions by artists and visual storytellers on the theme of happiness. What does happiness look like and what power does it hold? Is it something personal or rather collective? Can happiness be integrated into future politics or in sustainability for example? Can happiness make you unhappy?
This open call is for artists and filmmakers who reinvent and explore new approaches regarding the concept of Happiness.
This Radiant World: Recent and Retrospective Experimental Films is a four-program series of exceptional experimental films from the last few years, complemented by several newly restored and preserved retrospective works. Many of the films comment directly or indirectly on the anxieties and uncertainty of the past two years; others serve as joyful and playful counterpoints. Together, they demonstrate the continuing richness of experimental cinema, the history of which is exemplified by this selection of lesser-known works that are overdue for rediscovery and reappraisal.
EFEA is a community-led film festival taking place in May 2022 in the heart of East Anglia. The festival will showcase the very best experimental moving-image works from the region as well as internationally. We are looking for works that actively subvert cinematic conventions and use filmic language to abstractly delve into the many realms of human experience.
The OBSKURA Festival is an event that questions contemporary practices related to film, on an international scale. Developed by LABO K, a collective of artists, filmmakers and photographers who work with celluloid film, this second edition will take place over three days with screenings, workshops, performances, masterclasses and exhibitions. An invitation to watch together films that manage to clear unexpected territories of the cinema.
Vienna-based artist Johann Lurf is fascinated by image production and exhibition technologies, and his filmmaking practice is a diverse and thrillingly engaging demonstration of those passions. Across his eclectic body of truly inventive films, he employs an acute awareness of the possibilities for magic and revelation to be found in the interplay of real and filmic space. The elemental qualities of the moving image are activated via his conceptual and technical artistry and the medium itself always plays an active role. The result is an expanded adventure of cinema that involves the viewer in a thoughtful exploration of perspective and time.
In his second diary film, Mekas reflects on his life through footage shot across three distinct moments, largely structured around his time in America and Lithuania. In an intensely personal manner, Mekas uses voiceover and text to share memories on his initial arrival in America from Lithuania 1950–1953, filmed on his Bolex camera.
