Cinema Parenthèse and iMAL invites the British artist SIMON PAYNE to talk about and show his works. Payne has been making abstract cinema for over twenty years. His videos are predominantly orientated around bold graphic forms and highly structured sequences that produce unexpected color combinations and conflicting planes. Sometimes there are contingent elements in his work, which correspond with incidental indications of the artist’s hand.
Celebrating its 20th Annual Season, Sans Souci Festival seeks film/video works featuring the integration of dance and cinematography for exhibition at in-person and virtual screenings in 2023.We encourage submissions from all artists regardless of credentials and affiliations.
Early Deadline: Feb 28, 2023 Regular Deadline: Apr 9, 2023 Late Deadline: May 7, 2023 Submission fees vary by category.
Thursday, March 2nd, artist/software engineer Eric Theise will perform A Synesthete’s Atlas, an improvised cartographic salon piece using projected maps based on OpenStreetMap data. Since the premiere performance in Lisbon, April 2022, Theise has collaborated with improvising musicians across the US; this will be his first solo performance, with maps being manipulated to a soundscape inspired by the Library's cartographic and geographic holdings.
non-syntax Experimental Image begins by focusing on the experimental nature of images in the contemporary, linking practices across countries, reorganizing existing media and genres, and bringing different images into dialogue with each other to consider the possibilities of the image.
Co-founded by Golden Bear winning director Adina Pintilie in 2010, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival is an annual event dedicated to experimental films and visual arts. BIEFF aims to promote highly innovative films and filmmakers with strong personal views on contemporary reality, which also daringly explore the boundaries of cinematic language.
The protagonists of these dreamy, visionary trance films begin their erotic quests while going through various mental and emotional states. By means of visual symbols or metaphors, elliptical narratives and different editing strategies, Markopoulos addresses the disclosure of sexual identity (Flowers of Asphalt), the rejection of the male heterosexual role (Swain) and unconsummated sexual desire (The Mysteries).
San Francisco Cinematheque is thrilled to collaborate with San Francisco's 4 Star Theater in the inaugural screening in its Variable Density series, a monthly screening series of experimental film.
