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  • Xcèntric: Rituals of transfiguration

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    Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963)

    In this session, in the framework of the exhibition "1,000 m2 of Desire. Architecture and Sexuality", we see three essential pieces of US experimental film. Barbara Rubin, Kenneth Anger and Jack Smith film their respective transgressive visions of the body and desire located in the space of pure fantasy.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 18:30

    Venue: 

    Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

  • Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader

    Jan-Christopher Horak, Jonas Mekas et al..  2002.  Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader. :356pp.

    Contents:

    Introduction: Toward a new history of the experimental cinema

    Part one. Origins of the American avant-garde cinema, 1920-1959.
    - The first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945 / Jan-Christopher Horak
    - Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas
    - The woman filmmaker in the New York avant-garde / Lauren Rabinovitz
    - Women in the avant-garde: Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, and Trinh T. Minh-ha / Agnès Varda

  • Feux d'artifices: 30 years of Paris Expérimental

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    Antologia Della Materia: Fuoco (Giovanna Puggioni, 2006-7)

    Since 1985, publisher Paris Expérimental has become a singular meeting point between experimental cinema and its history. With around fifty landmark publications and events, this publishing house has contributed in France to the knowledge and recognition of experimental film forms that have often been marginalised.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 14:00 to 21:00

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou

  • Model, counter model: The use of films by critics

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    The Cage (Sidney Peterson, 1947)

    Written by Jonas Mekas for Film Culture in 1955, the article "Experimental Film in America" was particularly critical against the film avant-garde in America considered at that time by the young film critic as "the imprisoned self". Especially violent against filmmakers whose Jonas Mekas will defend the work later with passion and no limits – from Sidney Peterson to Stan Brakhage, Ian Hugo or Kenneth Anger – this lampoon reflected then the need of breaking the accepted ideas inherited from the tradition of the avant-gardism in cinema, but also the necessity, for the film critics, to canalize the dispersed energy of a young and rising generation of filmmakers. Conceived from this founder and critiqueable text, the program Model, Counter Model offers to revisit the use against type of films by critics.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 19:00

    Venue: 

    Centre Pompidou

  • Dirty Looks: Anger + Rapture

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    Films by Kenneth Anger + Ivan Zulueta

    - Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 16mm, 11 min., 1969)
    - Arrebato (Rapture) (Iván Zulueta, 35mm on video, 105 min., 1980)

    Starring Mick Jagger (who also composed its score), His Satanic Majesty Anton LaVey, and Manson Family member Bobby Beausoleil, Kenneth Anger has described Invocation of My Demon Brother as "an attack on the sensorium."

    Rarely screened on these shores, Iván Zulueta's sex and drugs filled cult classic Arrebato (Rapture) is legendary in Spain, where it launched a cinematic revolution, inspiring filmmakers like Pedro Almodóvar (who can be heard in an uncredited dubbing- as the voice of a female character). "He never filmed a single banal image," Almodóvar would later write of Zulueta, describing Zulueta's work as "David Lynch, but less shadowy and more pop." Mixing genre and experimental filmmaking, Arrebato tells the story of a hack horror director and heroin junky who becomes consumed by the vampiric apparatus of cinema. Introduced by Clara López.

    Dates: 

    Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 20:30

    Venue: 

    White Columns

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