Founded in 1994 by filmmaker and teacher Phil Hoffman, the Independent Imaging Retreat has provided over 260 participants (two-thirds of which are women) with guidance and training in hand-processing film.* Known collectively as the "Film Farm", over the past 25 years the week-long retreat has fostered experimental hand-processed cinema practices at the local, national, and international level.
Dates:
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 (All day) to Friday, July 19, 2019 (All day)
San Francisco Cinematheque and Canyon Cinema present a special memorial screening in honor of the recently departed pioneering lesbian feminist filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939–2019).
Close-Up is thrilled to present the first European solo screening for the US artist Kelly Gallagher, comprising ten years of her moving image work across animation, live action and avant-garde collage. These two programmes offer an overview of a brilliant young artist who has demonstrated a mastery of technique, matched with a strong historical and political consciousness. Hers is a radical critique of the canon and the conservative patriarchy that structures and sustains it. Her stance is feminist, anti-imperialist and anti-racist.
Light Reading, Lis Rhodes’s first voice-over film opens up a reinvigorating wave of feminist avant-garde essay films in Britain in the 1980s, with Sandra Lahire as one of its most radical exponents.
Cyprus Contemporary Film Centre is organising an evening dedicated to found footage based films. We invite artists and filmmakers to submit their films of up to 45 minutes of length at [email protected] including the following information
Since 1996 the Women’s Film Preservation Fund has preserved a number of significant experimental and animated works by American women, many of which reflect pioneering approaches and unique voices. These include works by Storm de Hirsch, Barbara Hammer, Peggy Ahwesh, Bette Gordon, and Helen Hill among others.
Dates:
Friday, June 21, 2019 (All day) to Saturday, June 22, 2019 (All day)