RAMONA APTHORP JOSH CLOUD DANIEL CORREL MELISSA FERRARI JANIE GEISER MIRANDA KAHN XIYU LIN MIWA MATREYEK MOIRA MACDONALD GINA MARIE NAPOLITAN LAURIE O’BRIEN BENNI QUINTERO MAT RAPPAPORT SUSAN SIMPSON MARIA F. VIDELA URRA JORDAN WONG
Dates:
Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 20:00 to Friday, June 7, 2019 - 21:55
To see and think the world as a totality has never been more crucial thanks to the present global environmental crisis. This three-part programme will bring together historical and contemporary films about ‘the world’ with the aim of exploring the divergences and continuities between audiovisual representations of the Earth past and present. From narratives of colonialism and internationalism through to end-of-the-world mythologies and the Anthropocene discourse, these films show that the history of cinema is inseparable from a quest to imagine the world as a totality.
Dates:
Saturday, June 8, 2019 - 13:00 to Sunday, June 9, 2019 - 17:55
Saturday, June 15, 2019 - 13:00 to Sunday, June 16, 2019 - 17:55
Saturday, June 22, 2019 - 13:00 to Sunday, June 23, 2019 - 17:55
A workshop jointly organised by the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster and Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival, and hosted by Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) + curated shorts programme.
Dates:
Saturday, June 8, 2019 - 10:30 to Sunday, June 9, 2019 - 13:55
Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Much of her work points to the relationships between physical environments and human struggles for power and control that play out on the land. Recent projects have addressed freedom, expansionism, surveillance, sonic warfare, public speech, ghosts, sinkholes, levitation, propagation, orthoptera, raptors, comets and faith.
Wheeler Winston Dixon has been making films since the 1960s, in addition to writing numerous books, and has had screenings at The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Anthology Film Archives, Filmhuis Cavia (Amsterdam), Studio 44 (Stockholm), La lumière collective (Montréal), The BWA Katowice Museum (Poland), The Microscope Gallery, The National Film Theatre (UK), The Jewish Museum, The Millennium Film Workshop, The San Francisco Cinématheque, The Maryland Institute College of Art, The New Arts Lab, The Collective for Living Cinema, The Kitchen and elsewhere. In his first Los Angeles show, he screens some of his more recent work in digital video.
A pioneer of experimental cinema, the Los Angeles artist Pat O’Neill developed innovative techniques for radically altering imagery in the predigital era. His highly inventive 16mm films from the 1960s and 1970s explore dense layering and movement within a still frame. In recent years, O’Neill has reworked several of his early films into multiple projections.
Dates:
Saturday, April 20, 2019 (All day) to Sunday, August 4, 2019 (All day)