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Experimental Film Club: Films by Henry Hills

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 02/12/2014 - 15:27

Henry Hills has been making short, intensely rhythmic experimental films since 1975. Primarily New York-based (where he frequently collaborates with composer John Zorn, choreographer Sally Silvers, and poet Charles Bernstein), he has been living half-time in Vienna since 2008, teaches at FAMU in Prague and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009.

This programme, curated by seminal Irish filmmaker Vivienne Dick, represents many highlights from Hills’ career, and has been similarly presented in recent months at the Austrian Film Museum, REDCAT in L.A. and Media City in Windsor, Ontario. His work, which seeks abstraction within sharply focused naturalistic imagery and the ethereal within the mundane, promotes an active attentiveness through a relentlessly concentrated montage.

Dates:
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 18:30
Venue:
Irish Film Institute - Dublin, Ireland
Absences and (Im)possibilities. Traces of an experimental cinema in Ireland

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 17/11/2014 - 11:00

Absences and (Im)possibilities, is a programme of experimental Irish film curated by the Experimental Film Club (Aoife Desmond, Alan Lambert, Donal Foreman and Esperanza Collado), commissioned by Irish Film Institute International and supported by Culture Ireland. The programme features a selection of films from 1897 to 2013, chosen for their relation to the possibility of an Irish experimental cinema. This touring programme, in partnership with LUX, presents a selection of films from the full programme. Filmmakers include the Lumiére brothers, Samuel Beckett, Vivienne Dick, Maximillian Le Cain, Dónal Ó Céilleachair and Jesse Jones.

Dates:
Sunday, November 23, 2014 - 15:00 to Monday, November 24, 2014 - 14:55
Venue:
Hackney Picturehouse - London, Reino Unido
Devoted Songs, The Films Of Nathaniel Dorsky

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 14/04/2014 - 16:58

IFI & Experimental Film Club present:Devoted Songs, The Films Of Nathaniel Dorsky

The devotional cinema of American filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky is a rare treasure that allows for a distinct experience of time and meditation. His films blend a poetic and introspective view of his environments with an exploration of the different cognitive and emotional associations that can be established between one shot and the next.

Available to view only on 16mm, this programme of Dorsky’s films, curated by EFC member Esperanza Collado in collaboration with Lumiére magazine, represents a truly unique opportunity to experience this important work. The programme features three films: The Visitation, the first of Dorsky’s Devoted Songs; Winter, a seasonal portrait of New York; and Alaya, one of the filmmaker’s most radical and structural works.

Dates:
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 18:30
Venue:
Irish Film Institute - Dublin, Ireland
Experimental Film Club: Ruins & Entropy Part 2

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 15/02/2013 - 03:46
Experimental Film Club: Ruins & Entropy Part 2
Part 2 of a two part programme curated by Aoife Desmond.
Tuesday February 26, 18:30h
Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2)
Introduced by Dr Declan Long (Co-director, MA Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD)

EFC and IFI present Ruins & Entropy Part 2. Part 2 continues the thread explored in Part 1 which focused on Robert Smithson’s art practice and theory. Part 2 focuses on contemporary filmmakers; Emily Richardson, Ben Rivers and Patrick Keiller and their exploration of decay and impermanence within the contemporary landscape. A selection of four films from these filmmakers combines architectural residue and history with a wandering or drifting protagonist and his/her poetic overview. The locations range from Hackney in London and Oxford Ness a disused military site in England to a wide ranging European tour and a fragmented tour of Britain ending up in the Isle of Mull.
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Experimental Film Club: Of Ruins and Light

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 16/09/2012 - 15:18
Experimental Film Club: Of Ruins and Light
Friday September 21st 2012, 21h
Coal Quay carpark Culture Night, Cork.

This programme of 16mm experimental film works is curated by Esperanza Collado and Aoife Desmond of the Experimental Film Club, Dublin. Their chosen films present expanded representations of time and space; from the earthly to the celestial, from the transience of man's structures on earth, to the vastness of the universe.

- Scotch Tape (Jack Smith, USA, 1959-1962, 3 minutes, B&W, Sound (optical), 16mm)
- The End (Patrick Keiller, 18 min, 16mm, B&W, sound (optical), 1986)
- Stellar (Stan Brakhage, 3 min, Colour, Silent, 16mm, 1993)
- Origin Of Species (Ben Rivers, 16 minutes, Colour, Sound (Optical), 16mm, UK, 2008)
- Redshift (Emily Richardson, 4 min, 16mm, colour, sound, 2001)
- The Cup And The Lip (Warren Sonbert, 20 mins., 16mm, colour, sound, 1986)
- Observando El Cielo (Jeanne Liotta, 19 mins, 16mm, colour, sound, 2007)
- Transit Of Venus (Nicky Hamlyn, 2 Min, 16Mm, B&W, Silent, 2005)
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Experimental Film Club: Landscapes on film

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 14/05/2011 - 04:03
Experimental Film Club: Landscapes on film
Thursday May 19th, 19h
Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Landscapes on Film is a selection of films that explore diverse investigations of landscape on film and video. This programme includes works by Eve Heller, Chris Kennedy, Miriam de Burca, Ariane Michel, Matthew Buckingham & Joachim Koester. These works alternate between lyrical exploration, particularly apparent in Heller's abstract landscape poem shot on residency in Ontario, and the more overtly political. Kennedy's film deconstructs idealised landscapes with reference to classical landscape painting paradigms. The works of De Búrca and the Koester & Buckingham collaboration hover between fiction and fact, disclosing hidden subtexts in Belfast and Christiania, Denmark. Ariane Michel explores an uninhabited landscape abandoning a human viewpoint for that of an animal protagonist. Each of these filmmakers adopts a strong individual position in order to articulate contested and appropriated landscapes.
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Experimental Film Club: Flecks of Interruption

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 06:42
Flecks of Interruption
Sunday 15th November / 5pm
The Odessa Club / Doors: 7 euro (5 euro concession), Dublin

“Most thought-provoking in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking”, said Martin Heidegger. Such statement opens the main notions and considerations that motivate the programme the Experimental Film Club presents at an unusual time this month. The reason for such an odd date comes from the inspiring source of this programme: the two-part international group exhibition “Automatic”, curated by Gavin Murphy and Chris Fite-Wassilak, currently on at Pallas Contemporary Project (Dublin). Gavin and Chris proposed to us to organize a film session that explored similar ideas to those that embedded the exhibition, which works, in their own words, attempt to “stretch out the persistent, ghostly sensory circuit between the artist, artwork and audience”. Perception was indeed one of the main subjects we discussed during the plotting of this programme, not so much as an experience which could be rationally comprehended, but as a vigorous, direct and impacting encounter with a percept, or a series of percepts, beyond immediate conscious understanding.
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