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BLITZ #9: The Uncertain Archive

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 30/01/2018 - 15:53

A screening series of film/video artists who subvert the codes of mass-media, oftening appropriating found footage. These works question and rewrite the visual archives that form our perception of authority, gender, space, and history. Curated by Alison Nguyen. Approx. run time: 72 minutes.

Featured artists: Ololade Adeniyi, Peggy Ahwesh, Bradley Eros, Timothy Geraghty, Scott Kiernan, Brian Murphy, Alison Nguyen, Sabrina Ratté, Lily Jue Sheng, Soda_Jerk, Leslie Thornton, X-PRZ

Programme:
Dates:
Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 21:00
Venue:
Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona, España
BLITZ #8: Burn

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 17/01/2018 - 03:15

A programme curated by Alison Nguyen

A screening series of film and video artists who employ modes of appropriation, dematerialization, and electronic signal manipulation in their moving image works. These pieces subvert the visual codes of mass media, repositioning material such as commercials, pornography, and Hollywood films. In burning contemporary archives, these artists create new texts that challenge our way of seeing dominant social constructs.

Dates:
Saturday, January 20, 2018 - 19:00
Venue:
Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona, España
Species of Spaces. The films of Deborah Phillips

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 11/12/2017 - 06:53

Double programme dedicated to the films of German artist & filmmaker Deborah Phillips, who will show her works on 16mm y 35mm related to the concept of space. There we will be able to see two of her latest works, WHERE IS GREENPOINT? and NACH OSTEN SCHAUEN, from 2017, as well as a retrospective dedicated to places & ornaments, with the special projection of MOSAIC, a 45-minute film shot on 35mm in different parts of the world, as Samarcanda, Bujara, Fez, Casablanca, Andalucía, Isfahán, El Cairo or Istanbul.
Dates:
Thursday, December 14, 2017 (All day) to Friday, December 15, 2017 (All day)
Venue:
Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona, España
Cineinfinito #28: Joanna Margaret Paul

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 18/09/2017 - 15:15

Joanna Margaret Paul (1955-2003) was a New Zealand artist who pioneered interdisciplinary practice, working prolifically across the mediums of film, poetry and painting. Often shot and edited in camera, her film work chronicled motherhood and domestic life (Task, Napkins), the worn traces of urban settlement (Port Chalmers Cycle) and the persistent presence of the natural world. Other works such as Sisterhood portrayed the life of other female artists identified with the 1970s womens movement in New Zealand.

Dates:
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 21:30
Venue:
Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona, España
Blitz Sessions #02: Albert Alcoz

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 21/04/2017 - 10:10

Albert Alcoz (Barcelona, 1979) is a filmmaker, writer, teacher and programmer of experimental film and videocreation. PhD in Communication from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, with a doctoral thesis on sound and structural cinema (2016). Graduate in Fine Arts by the University of Barcelona and Master of Documentary Cinema of Creation by the University Pompeu Fabra. Since 2005 he has made films in super 8, 16mm format and video that investigate the nature of moving image, using the cinematographic medium from a visual and sound perspective that refers to the tradition of avant-garde cinema, videocreation and music video.

Dates:
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 21:00
Venue:
Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona, España
BLITZ Sessions #01: Oriol Sánchez

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 19/03/2017 - 05:46

Laboratorio Reversible & Zumzeig Cinema present: BLITZ Sessions #01: Oriol Sánchez

Experimental filmmaker Oriol Sánchez, also known as HH, presents his latest work in video and a performance in Super 8 and 16 mm. All the films projected in this session deal with the aggression and brutality of the medium itself, exploring the violence of bodies and alluding to the inherent destructiveness of the kinematic machine.
Dates:
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 21:00
Venue:
Zumzeig Cinema - Barcelona, España