In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film critics. In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics. This film-biography is assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written, an impression of erupting consciousness.
Dates:
Friday, November 16, 2018 - 19:00 to Saturday, November 17, 2018 - 18:55
Founded by filmmaker Bruce Baillie in 1961, San Francisco Cinematheque is the Bay Area’s premier venue for avant-garde, experimental, underground and personally expressive film, video and performance work. In its dedication to exhibiting works of aesthetically radical cinema from all historical eras and geo-political locales, Cinematheque cultivates the international field of artist-made cinema, inspiring aesthetic dialog and critical discourse and encouraging appreciation across the broader cultural landscape.
The aim of this unique experimental film workshop at Primanima Festival of First Animations is to get the participants acquainted with the technique of making a celluloid-based abstract film. During the workshop, the participants will work with 35 mm celluloid strips and colour them with different paints and felt tip markers. The strips used for the workshop have been buried in the ground and the procedure partially decomposed the images on them.
27th dokumentART, the European Filmfestival is taking place at Neubrandenburg, Germany from October 17th till 21st.
dokumentART is connecting international filmmakers, local audiences and students as well as film industry. Surprisingly innovative films, creative documentary approaches and diverse visual practices inspire to debate, reflect and re-think today's realities.
Dates:
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 (All day) to Sunday, October 21, 2018 (All day)
Calfskin is a show of new experimental works by Oakland-based interdisciplinary artist, Kate Rhoades. The exhibition takes its inspiration from the gallery Telematic’s location, which once housed Stompers Boots, a staple of the SOMA leather community.
Dates:
Saturday, October 27, 2018 (All day) to Saturday, December 1, 2018 (All day)
Traverse XXIII, March 13 - 31, 2019, Toulouse (France)Experimental{research/art}
When an art is called “installation”, it implies an approach even if we can regret this appellation since “ephemeral”, in situ, a moving sculpture, taking up space, minimalism of a large screen with loop option, in other figures, refuses this enslavement to a place, for a closed use. He has to question his relationship with space, with those who approach it, it thinks itself in intersubjectivity. When an art borrows an ambiguous term connoting prowess, but however emancipates itself from the couple action-reaction/action-result; we can regret that one assimilates it to a live show, with its rules of completion whereas it is performative, that it exists through what it does.
