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Xcèntric: Architectures of desire from cinema

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 06/02/2017 - 09:36
The Xcèntric experimental film cycle inaugurates a set of four sessions in parallel to the themes proposed in the CCCB's exhibition "1,000m2 of Desire. Architecture and Sexuality". This series, which begins next Sunday, February 12 and ends on February 23, features a selection of films by authors such as Fred Halsted, Kazuo Hara, Barbara Rubin, Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, James Herbert and Stan Brakhage.
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Xcèntric: The voyeuristic camera - visual spaces of desire

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 06/02/2017 - 09:20

In the framework of the exhibition "1,000 m2 of Desire. Architecture and Sexuality", Xcèntric Cinema presents a session of films by James Herbert and Stan Brakhage that evoke the relation between erotic desire and its physical spatiality.
Dates:
Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 20:00
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
Xcèntric: Rituals of transfiguration

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 06/02/2017 - 09:11

In this session, in the framework of the exhibition "1,000 m2 of Desire. Architecture and Sexuality", we see three essential pieces of US experimental film. Barbara Rubin, Kenneth Anger and Jack Smith film their respective transgressive visions of the body and desire located in the space of pure fantasy.
Dates:
Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 18:30
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
Xcèntric: Cinema of the intimate. The limits of the filmable

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 06/02/2017 - 09:01

In the framework of the exhibition "1,000 m2 of Desire. Architecture and Sexuality", Xcèntric Cinema presents Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974, by Kazuo Hara, a revolutionary film that borders on self-therapy to heal the wounds of mutilated love. In his ex-wife’s new apartment, the camera gives the filmmaker the explanation he needed about the end of their relationship .
Dates:
Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 20:00
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
Xcèntric: L.A. Plays Itself

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 06/02/2017 - 08:49

L.A. Plays Itself, Fred Halsted’s first feature, opens this series of sessions in the framework of the exhibition "1.000 m2 of Desire. Architecture and Sexuality". Made in 1972, the film traces a route around the cruising areas of the city of Los Angeles. The session is completed by one of Halsted’s shorts, Sex Garage.
Dates:
Sunday, February 12, 2017 - 18:30
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain