VIDEOEX – International Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich – is Switzerland’s only festival dedicated to experimental film and video.
Started in 1998, VIDEOEX presents a large variety of contemporary and experimental films and videos, retrospectives and thematic programs as well as live acts, installations, discussions and workshops. The festival includes an international competition, a Swiss competition and the presentation of works from a featured city.
Dates:
Saturday, May 26, 2018 (All day) to Sunday, June 3, 2018 (All day)
Friday 15 December sees the opening of the exhibition FUTURE RESONANCE, at Spazio Ridotto in Venice, a collaboration between the Venetian organization Zuecca Projects and the contemporary art platform the PhotoPhore.
Dates:
Friday, December 15, 2017 - 18:00 to Monday, January 15, 2018 - 17:55
From 3 to 7 May, in conjunction with LUX (London) and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (New York), the Oberhausen Film Festival will hold the Oberhausen Seminar for the fifth time during the 64th festival edition.
Frans Zwartjes passed away on November 18, 2017. He was ninety years old.
Best known for his experimental shorts produced in the 1960s and 70s, Zwartjes was goth before there was such a thing (which the culture has since determinedly undermined). He was the first artist to unlock the potential of the selfie (which the culture has since determinedly undermined), and he was the precursor to the Fassbindian approach to "family" filmmaking (which the culture has since determinedly avoided). Susan Sontag called Zwartjes "the most important experimental filmmaker of his generation", and he has been either cited or ripped off whole-sale by a generation of artists and filmmakers since.
Double programme dedicated to the films of German artist & filmmaker Deborah Phillips, who will show her works on 16mm y 35mm related to the concept of space. There we will be able to see two of her latest works, WHERE IS GREENPOINT? and NACH OSTEN SCHAUEN, from 2017, as well as a retrospective dedicated to places & ornaments, with the special projection of MOSAIC, a 45-minute film shot on 35mm in different parts of the world, as Samarcanda, Bujara, Fez, Casablanca, Andalucía, Isfahán, El Cairo or Istanbul.
Dates:
Thursday, December 14, 2017 (All day) to Friday, December 15, 2017 (All day)
Dore O.’s films seem to claim a certain uniqueness and independence from the dominant, yet diverse and irreducible currents of German experimental cinema. As the critic Dietrich Kuhlbrodt declared already in 1988: »Dore O. has become classic, and suddenly it turns out that her work has passed the various currents of time unharmed: the time of the cooperative union, the women's film, the structuralists and grammarians, the teachers of new ways of seeing ...
Dates:
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 - 20:00 to Thursday, December 14, 2017 - 19:55
