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Moholy-Nagy's ABC in sound rediscovered in BFI National Archive after 80 years

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 11/06/2019 - 02:17
The BFI are delighted to announce the rediscovery of Bauhaus teacher and artist László Moholy-Nagy’s long ‘lost’ optical sound film, Tönendes ABC / ABC in Sound (1933), missing for over 80 years. The experimental film, from one of the most influential figures of the avant-garde, was found at the BFI National Archive and correctly identified by BFI Curators.
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Brief news
Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen - Riddles of the Sphinx
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's visually accomplished and intellectually rigorous Riddles of the Sphinx is one of the most important avant-garde films to have emerged from Britain during the 1970s.

The second collaboration between Mulvey and Wollen, both of whom are recognised as seminal figures in the field of film theory, Riddles of the Sphinx explores issues of female representation, the place of motherhood within society and the relationship between mother and daughter. Composed of a number of discrete sections, many of which are shot as continuous circular pans, the film takes place in a range of domestic and public spaces, shot in locations which include Malcolm LeGrice's kitchen and Stephen Dwoskin's bedroom.

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Average: 3.3 (6 votes)
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Blu-Ray
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British Film Institute
Ben Rivers: Shorts

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 18/07/2012 - 15:55
Ben Rivers: Shorts
Saturday August 4th, 16:10h
Sunday August 5th, 2012 18:40h
Thursday August 9th, 2012 18:40h
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT

This new LUX touring programme brings together five early shorts by Ben Rivers - The Coming Race; This Is My Land; A World Rattled of Habit; Origin of the Species, Ah, Liberty - which together present a series of portraits of unconventional lives - of people existing, to varying degrees, in wilderness or isolation. River's films are compassionate and elliptical, ambigious documents of both the reality of life outside urban norms and our own Romantic preconceptions of a life beyond bounds. The programme includes This Is My Land, Rivers' first portrait of Jake Williams, later the subject of Two Years at Sea.
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Events
William Raban - British Artists' Films
This new series begins with William Raban, a leading figure in his field, whose work ranges from multi-screen gallery pieces to perfectly crafted short films. His particular interests - the City of London and the British landscape - are in the tradition oThis new series begins with William Raban, a leading figure in his field, whose work ranges from multi-screen gallery pieces to perfectly crafted short films. His particular interests - the City of London and the British landscape - are in the tradition of the romantic landscape painters.

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Average: 3.5 (2 votes)
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DVD
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British Film Institute
Chris Welsby - British Artists' Films
This DVD focuses on the work of Chris Welsby, landscape artist and pioneer of the moving-image installation in Britain, whose subtle meditations are exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.

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Average: 4.5 (2 votes)
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DVD
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British Film Institute
Ian Breakwell - British Artists' Films
The third release in the BFI's British Artists' Films DVD series features Ian Breakwell (1943-2005), an artist who worked in many different mediums, with the moving image a constant part of his art-making.

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Average: 3 (2 votes)
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DVD
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British Film Institute
Hans Richter - Dreams that money can buy
Berlin-born Hans Richter - Dadaist, painter, film theorist and filmmaker - was for four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde. Richter assembled some of the century's liveliest artists as co-creators of Dreams That Mon

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Average: 2.5 (2 votes)
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DVD
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Masha Matzke
Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film
Since the 1950s, Geoffrey R. Llewellyn Jones has been making multi-award-winning short films that look, sound and feel like nothing else. With his extraordinary marriage of images, music and rhythm, he ranks alongside such luminaries as Norman McLaren and

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Average: 4 (1 vote)
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DVD
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Masha Matzke
Eija-Liisa Ahtila - The Cinematic Works
Finnish filmmaker Eija-Liisa Ahtila's films and multi-screen installations explore and experiment with storytelling, creating extraordinary tales out of ordinary human experiences and particularly the unsettling human dramas at the centre of personal rel

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Average: 4 (1 vote)
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DVD
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Masha Matzke
Jean Painlevé - Science is Fiction / The Sounds of Science
Before David Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau - there was Jean Painlevé. Poetic pioneer of science films, Painlevé explored a twilight realm of vampire bats, seahorses, octopi, and liquid crystals. In collaboration with his life-partner, Genevive Hamon,

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
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DVD
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Masha Matzke