Filmmaker, “media archeologist,” and interim chair of the SFAI Film Department Kerry Laitala makes use of decaying cultural relics and antiquated medical technologies to resurrect images and artifacts that have been forgotten. For her screening on April 3, she will present her own work together with haunting, melancholic work by Phil Solomon and the recently departed Barbara Hammer–as well as a special performance of her recent expanded cinema work Chromatic Wheels, with a live score by Jon Leidecker.
The GFF programming team is once again looking for the best contemporary cinema from Manitoba, Canada and around the World, both feature and short films. This includes narrative, documentary and experimental films, as well as feature films and short films from anywhere in the world!
Elizabeth Block is a filmmaker, an artist, and an award-winning writer of poetry and fiction. Her writing has been published in a variety of literary journals and magazines, and on the internet. Her writing includes the novel, A Gesture through Time, a hybrid work of prose, poetry, textual flip book, and scripted story of obsessive/ambiguous love, death, and unusual cinematic history.
Dates:
Monday, April 15, 2019 - 18:00 to Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 17:55
UCL Urban Laboratory and the UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities are hosting an interdisciplinary symposium on the urban essay film, to take place during the UCL Festival of Culture on Friday 7 June 2019.
Deadline:
Friday, April 5, 2019 - 17:00 to Saturday, April 6, 2019 - 16:45
Filmmaker/Curator Ruth Somalo presents the world premiere of "Tell Me When You Die," a trilogy of performative films by Amber Bemak and Nadia Granados that reframe porn as a genre which can be empowering in its engagement with women and their bodies. Bemak and Granados work collaboratively with text, language, and the body to illustrate the colonial narratives that are still deeply entrenched an
Richard Kerr is a visual artist-media maker known for his expansive body of work, which has explored a multiplicity of genres and mediums since the 1970’s. In the 1990’s Richard expanded his practice to encompass meta-cinema installation work and most notably the conceptualization of the Motion Picture Weaving Project. Richard is a teacher/artist, as such his studio informs his teaching and his teaching inspires his studio work.
Dates:
Sunday, March 31, 2019 - 19:00 to Monday, April 1, 2019 - 18:55
