This program of works from San Francisco experimental-film distributor Canyon Cinema, one of DIM’s favourite partners, is curated by David Dinnell, visiting faculty at CalArts and former program director at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
MIEFF was established with a strong aspiration to create a new cultural institution that would provide a presentable and close look at a wide range of experimental practices with the moving image. This approach allows to pay exclusive and thorough attention to the talents that might have previously been overlooked by the vast number of conventional film festivals which only spare a small corner for experimental categories within their programmes.
To an observer, a flash of light in the dark would draw a kind of constantly moving arabesque that catches their eye. It does not take much more to realise what cinema is: perhaps just a projector running in a dark hall or the projection of the two films that make up this session: Lights, by António Palolo, ★,by Johann Lurf,, where abstract images and research into light are followed by figurations of the sun, constellations, stars and galaxies.
Maria Lassnig, who died in 2014, is internationally regarded as one of the most important painters of the 20th century. Her lyrical abstraction, developed from her own physical experience - the so-called "body awareness", in which emotional experience and physical sensibility are combined - also found cinematic expression in the early 1970s. As part of her New York exile, Lassnig attended an animation film class at the School of Visual Arts and began filming on 8mm and 16mm.
Dates:
Thursday, April 5, 2018 - 21:00 to Friday, April 6, 2018 - 20:55
Microscope Gallery is pleased to welcome back to the gallery Columbus-based filmmaker Roger Beebe for an evening of films, videos, and multi-projector performances, including several New York premieres shown alongside some of his best-known works. The event is the New York leg of Beebe’s 3,000-mile East Coast tour. The program has been adapted to include only works never before presented at the gallery.
Dates:
Saturday, April 7, 2018 - 20:00 to Sunday, April 8, 2018 - 19:55
3 Colours of Light: Deliberations on red, blue & green. Presented by Berlin-based artist Deborah S.Philips.
Deborah S.Philips works with a range of analogue media, including printmaking, painting, collage and film. The nature of colour is a subject she has been investigating for over a decade.
In this programme, through three 16mm films and a 16mm performance with audience participation, she presents her results.
Dates:
Sunday, April 8, 2018 - 15:00 to Monday, April 9, 2018 - 14:55
"The apparatus as an eccentric performer within the film.”
FRACTO festival seeks to reflect upon the techno-attitude that directs film towards the demands of its apparatus, constantly floating as a supreme and fragmented perceptual eye. In this configuration perceptual contingency is ultimately conceived as a totalizing, post-organic point of view—seemingly seeking primarily itself—instead of folding in on specific meanings conveyed by a clear distance from medium.
