VISIONS, in collaboration with la lumière collective, presents CLINT ENNS: THE LO-FI MIXTAPE + IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS, IT'S TOO LATE Filmmaker Present | Digital Projection
Clint Enns is a visual artist living in Toronto, Ontario. His work primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown both nationally and internationally at galleries, festivals, alternative spaces and microcinemas.
Dates:
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 20:00 to Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 19:55
Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 20:00 to Friday, July 14, 2017 - 19:55
Celebrate the heat of July with classics by two of the sharpest editors in the experimental scenes in the USA. Abigail Child’s heady Is This What You Were Born For? series (from which we’re showing four films) took the Eighties by storm creating “found” footage collages of sultry noir seduction—turning erotic desires on its head.
Dates:
Monday, July 24, 2017 - 20:00 to Tuesday, July 25, 2017 - 19:55
Programme: - Eye Etc (1982,16mm, color, silent, 4') Filmed on vacation in Hawaii, the shots explore the light, colors and sensuous movement of the Hawaiian culture.
Five Films (1984-87): MM Serra’s FIVE FILMS embody a (...) Do-It-Yourself Lower East Side spirit, but introduces a distinctive dimension of lyrical eroticism. Taken together these (...) films demonstrate both the unbounded energy that animated the downtown NYC underground film scene in these years (...) — Anthology Film Archives, 2016
Dates:
Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 18:00 to Friday, July 28, 2017 - 17:55
Microscope Gallery is extremely pleased to present as the final night in a two-part series of works by the Japanese video and computer animation pioneer Ko Nakajima the full 90-minute version of his most well known work “Mt. Fuji”, made in 1984. While the 20-minute version has previously screened in the US – including in the 1986 program “New Video: Japan” as part of “Close Up of Japan, New York 1985-86” at the Museum of Modern Art and the subsequent traveling program, among others – the original version of the work has rarely, if ever, been shown in the US. A 7-minute long “short version” also exists.
We are pleased to announce the start of the 4th edition of an international, open contest „Freedom of Form”, organised as a part of Festival of Visual Communication Forms – Interference Festival, which will be held on 20-21 October 2017 in Gdansk.
Experimenta, the international festival of moving image art in India, celebrates its 10th edition. Experimenta 2017 seeks artist’s films and videos that challenge conventional modes of cinema. Abstract to obscure compositions that extend the parameters of genre and form are welcome.
In the mid 1960s, Edward Owens was an African-American teenager attending the Art Institute of Chicago when Gregory Markopoulos arrived to found the school’s film program. Owens, who was then studying painting and sculpture, had already been making 8mm movies for a few years; impressed by the maturity of his work, Markopoulos encouraged him to move to New York. Owens arrived in Manhattan in 1966 with Markopoulos, who quickly ushered him into the world of the city’s cultured demimonde, introducing him to figures like Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga, Marie Menken, Gregory Battcock, and filmmaker-poet Charles Boultenhouse. Soon, Owens became romantically involved with Boultenhouse, and moved into the West Village apartment where Boultenhouse already lived with his lover of many decades, the legendary critic Parker Tyler, who accepted the arrangement.
