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Shoot Shoot Shoot, London Film-Makers' Co-operative - The First Decade

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 11/03/2019 - 07:27

The London Film-Makers' Co-operative (LFMC) was founded in October 1966, and soon grew from its beginnings as a film-viewing group to become one of the major centres of a worldwide network of avant-garde film culture.
Dates:
Thursday, March 14, 2019 (All day) to Sunday, March 17, 2019 (All day)
Venue:
Austrian Film Museum - Vienna, Austria
Sheffield Fringe: Write after reading

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 30/03/2014 - 09:41

The shifting physicality of the written word in the age of digital surveillance continuously warps and renegotiates notions of the personal and the political throughout this selection of films. Personal footage and self-interrogation are re-appropriated in narratives that blur the lines between documentary, manifesto and fiction.

With 40 years between them, John Latham’s Encyclopaedia Britannica (1971) and Andrew Norman Wilson’s Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011) both interrogate the evolving physicality and accessibility of the written word. Helen Benigson’s The Future Queen of the Screen (2011) starts with an old-fashioned, echoing keyboard clang, never letting go of the seductive tactility of the digital interface. Equal parts futuristic dystopia and childhood holiday nostalgia, Daniel Mann’s Future Diaries (2011) creates an improbably seamless experiment in narrative dissonance from the artist’s father’s Hi-8 family video archive.

A discussion will follow the screening.

With thanks to Openvizor, LUX, and Angus-Hughes Gallery.

Dates:
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 19:00 to Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 18:55
Venue:
Hackney Picturehouse - London, United Kingdom
Xcèntric: Exquisite collages

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 05/01/2013 - 15:39
Xcèntric: Exquisite collages I & II
Friday, January 11, 20h
Saturday, January 12, 20h
Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

A selection of shorts by classic collage artists alongside new talents.

Programme 1, Jan.11, 20h
- Las Variaciones Schwitters (Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 2012, 6 min)
- Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963, 4 min)
- The Garden of Earthly Delights (Stan Brakhage, 1981, 1 min 30)
- Solar Sight (Larry Jordan, 2011, 15 min)
- Odds and Ends (Jane Congel Belson Shimane, 1959, 4 min)
- Recreation (Robert Breer, 1957, 2 min)
- Jamestown Baloos (Robert Breer, 1957, 6 min)
- Unnamed Film (Caroline Avery, 1989, 45 seg)
- Fil(m) (Frédérique Devaux, 2001, 4 min)
- La Pêche Miraculeuse (Cécile Fontaine, 1995, 10 min)
- Speak (John Latham, 1962, 11 min)

Programme 2, Jan.12, 20h
- Brana Calypso Dendrita (David Domingo, Darío Peña y Dostopos (Ana Pfaff y Ari Ribas), with music of Afrika Pseudobrutismus, 2012, vídeo, 14 min (produced for the Picnic Sessions 2012 of CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo))
- Rabbit (Run Wrake, 2005, 35 mm, 5 min)
- Cineblatz (Jeff Keen, 1967, 16 mm, 3 min)
- Nook & Cranny (Francien Van Everdingen, 2008, 16 mm, 3 min)
- Cats Amore (Martha Colburn, 2002, video, 2 min 30 seg)
- À la Mode (Stan Vanderbeek, 1959-1960, 16 mm, 7 min)
- Tango (Zbigniew Rybcynski, 1981, 35 mm, 8 min)
- Höhenrausch (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 1999, 16 mm, 4 min)
- Nujiman no borei / 200 000 Fantômes (Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2007, vídeo, 10 min)
- Phantom Canyon (Stacey Steers, 2006, 35 mm, 10 min)
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Events
John Latham - Films 1960 – 1971
John Latham (1921 - 2006) was one of the most important British artists of the post-war period, best remembered for his painting and sculptural works which incorporated materials such as glass, canvas and books. Less well-known, but now restored after several decades out of circulation, are the six films which Latham made during the 1960s and early 1970s. These films developed Latham’s concepts of ‘time-base’ and ‘structure in events’ through playful and varied use of stop-frame animation, from the stroboscopic collage Speak (1960) to the cosmological meditation Erth (1971).

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DVD
Publisher:
LUX
John Latham: Films 1960-1971

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 02/09/2010 - 02:50
LUX comes back from vacation with a new DVD presented in collaboration with the Lisson Gallery. John Latham: Films 1960-1971 collects all the films made by the british multifaceted artist in the period, exploring his concepts of 'time-base' and 'structure in events'. The DVD will be officially launched at Whitechapel Gallery on 4th September, after a specially-commissioned performance by the sound artist David Toop coinciding with the end of the gallery's show 'John Latham: Anarchive'. The works included in this compilation are Unclassified Material (1960), Unedited Material from the Star (1960), Talk Mr Bard (1961), Speak (1962), Encyclopedia Britannica (1971) and Erth (1971). The DVD comes with many extra features, including audio commentaries, and film documentation of other Latham projects and performances, and a booklet with a specially commissioned essay on Latham’s films by Mark Webber. Latham's work was the subject of an exhibiton last year at online gallery tank.tv. PAL, multizone, 20 GBP.
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Releases
Oporto apresenta #17: Unedited Material From The Star

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 15/12/2009 - 18:10
Unedited Material From The Star by John Latham
16 mm, color, sound (optical), 12', 1960
Saturday, December 19, 2009, 11 pm

John Latham (1921 - 2006) is definitely a pillar for the british contemporary arts. Starting as a painter and sculptor in the late forties, he soon moved these mediums to conceptual fields and social practices. In the fifties Latham developed an holistic system where art emerges as a visual language, the most accurate meaning to approach time and matter. This new time-based theory, termed "Flat Time" becomes a unifying philosophical structure capable of ordering the Universe and human behavior.
"Unedited Material From The Star" is an animated documentary of the production of another piece, "Film Star". The film presents debris of literature agglomerated over a grav-
ity field, the canvas. The result is a flickering book-wreckage site shaped as a bright nonlinear star

"Unwritten echoes from a neighboring star" - Alexandre Estrela

Oporto is a studio and a non-profit screening room located in Lisboa. Occupying the former Merchant Sailors Union headquarters, Oporto projects from time to time a single unique experimental video or film. The programme is exquisite and extremely slow.The selection of the pieces screened is made, not only on the basis of the work itself, but also on an overall idea of an exquisite corpse . The space is directed by artist Alexandre Estrela, in cooperation with designers and associate program managers Antonio Gomes and Claudia Castelo a.k.a. Barbara Says and artist Miguel Soares. Sponsored by GAU- Gestão de Audiovisuais.
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Events
Cinemateca Portuguesa: Contar O Tempo

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 02/10/2009 - 16:27
Contar O Tempo
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema / exd '09
2-30 October 2009
Rua Barata Salgueiro, 39
Lisbon 1250 Portugal
Curated by Ricardo Matos Cabo. Full programme (in portuguese)
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Events
Tank tv: John Latham

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 02/03/2009 - 10:12
Now Showing: John Latham
22nd February - 14th March 2009

tank.tv is extremely pleased to present a rare opportunity to view John Latham's films:
Unedited Material from the Star, Talk Mr Bard, Speak, Britannica, Erth and more.

The influence of John Latham (1921-2006), an artist whose work includes painting, performance and film to mention just a few, has extended far beyond the boundaries of the art world. Interested in theoretical physics, Latham developed an opposing cosmology which rejected the primacy of space and matter and favour of time and event. The body of work and concepts which developed out of this way of thinking continue to challenge the way we conceive of art as event and of the place of the artist within society.

With special thanks to LUX.

Flat Time House, John Latham's home and studio, has been open to the public by since October 2008 for a programme of exhibitions and events, and as an archive and research centre. Details of opening hours and forthcoming events can be found at www.flattimeho.org.uk
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Events