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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
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
Stephen Dwoskin - Central Bazaar
Two decades before the Big Brother phenomenon overtook the world's television screens filmmaker Steve Dwoskin made this film depicting the events that ensued when a group of random people were isolated within the confines one house. Dwoskin was in there t

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Average: 4 (3 votes)
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DVD
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Masha Matzke
Kenneth Anger - The Magick Lantern Cycle
A collection of cult films by experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Includes: FIREWORKS (1947), PUCE MOMENT (1949), RABBIT'S MOON (1950), EAUX D'ARTIFICE (1953), THE INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME (1954), SCORPIO RISING (1963), KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (19A collection of cult films by experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger. The Magick Lantern Cycle, released in a 2-disc set, contains the following films: Fireworks (1947); Puce Moment (1949); Rabbit's Moon (1950/1971, the rarely seen 16 mins version); Eaux d'Artifice (1953); Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954); Scorpio Rising (1964); Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965); Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969); Rabbit's Moon (1979); Lucifer Rising (1981).

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Average: 4 (9 votes)
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DVD
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British Film Institute
Jeff Keen - GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen
Jeff Keen began making films at the age of 37 when his art school film society needed things to show. And so began over forty years of unique, imaginative, irrepressible filmmaking. This release contains over 9 hours of films and videos by the visionary f

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Average: 4 (2 votes)
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DVD
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Masha Matzke
Jayne Parker - British Artists' Films
The fourth volume in the BFI's British Artists' Films series - produced in partnership with arts documentary makers Illuminations and Arts Council England - features Jayne Parker, an artist who makes moving images for cinema, gallery and television.

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Average: 3.5 (2 votes)
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DVD
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British Film Institute
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
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