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This Radiant World: Harmonies and Discords

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 15/02/2022 - 04:23

This Radiant World: Recent and Retrospective Experimental Films is a four-program series of exceptional experimental films from the last few years, complemented by several newly restored and preserved retrospective works. Many of the films comment directly or indirectly on the anxieties and uncertainty of the past two years; others serve as joyful and playful counterpoints. Together, they demonstrate the continuing richness of experimental cinema, the history of which is exemplified by this selection of lesser-known works that are overdue for rediscovery and reappraisal.
Dates:
Friday, February 25, 2022 - 19:00
Venue:
Logan Center for the Arts - Chicago, United States
Beyond Enchantment: The Films of Lawrence Jordan

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 03/10/2016 - 09:07

Legendary collage animator Lawrence Jordan presents his most recent film, a tribute to Max Ernst and Luis Buñuel, alongside a selection from his entire career, followed by a live film performance with John Davis.

“I have always wanted to show the ‘impossible’ in my films, and to astonish the viewer. . . . I often operate on freely associated series of images, finding the trail as I go, not plotting it, though some of the films are meticulously scripted. When I astonish myself, I put it in the film. When I don’t, I leave it out.” - Lawrence Jordan

Dates:
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 19:00 to Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 18:55
Venue:
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - Berkeley , United States
An Introduction to the American Underground Film
Renan S. 1967. An Introduction to the American Underground Film. :326pp.
Contents:

What is the underground film?

A history of the avant-garde/experimental/underground film in America

A gallery of film-makers

Stars of the underground films

The underground establishment

Expanded cinema.
Österreichisches Filmmuseum: Joseph Cornell

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 10/11/2015 - 04:15

Utopia Parkway: It is from this fittingly poetic-sounding address in Queens, NY, that the art of Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) emerged. Although he scarcely left New York during his lifetime, Cornell's work was strongly influenced by his interest in the old continent, astronomy and eras long past. Cornell was intrigued with all things distant; but instead of starting to travel he created his own cosmos: "This is a man who would look at the stars and dream about the mechanics of the universe." (Walter Hopps)

Dates:
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 - 20:30
Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 20:30
Venue:
Austrian Film Museum - Vienna, Austria
Joseph Cornell: White Magic Filmmaker

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 07/08/2015 - 10:22

Joseph Cornell was a cinephile, film collector, filmmaker and pioneering American assemblage artist. He called his work ‘white magic’ to distinguish it from the darker arts of the surrealists with whom he had a dialogue. From the late 30s onward he reworked Hollywood movies, travelogues and education films to create touching, sophisticated edits and juxtapositions. The first programme includes Rose Hobart which Dali accused Cornell of stealing from his dreams, and the newly rediscovered The Wool Collage. The second programme shows collaborations with other experimental filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage and Larry Jordan. Gnir Rednow and other titles here draw on material shot by Cornell’s collaborators which he then edited and reworked according to his particular aesthetic.

Dates:
Thursday, September 3, 2015 - 18:00 to Friday, September 4, 2015 - 17:55
Venue:
BFI Southbank - London, United Kingdom
Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970
Flicker Alley and the Blackhawk Films® Collection, in collaboration with Filmmakers Showcase, are proud to present Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 in a 4-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Edition. This breathtaking collection includes 30 films, restored to pristine high-definition, from some of the foremost experimental filmmakers of the 20th century.

Commencing in 1920 with Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s creative collaboration on Manhatta, successive generations of experimental filmmakers and artists have worked in collaboration or alone to create a cinema capable of expressing dynamic unspoken concepts in totally abstract visual terms.

Rating:

Average: 4 (6 votes)
Category:
Blu-Ray
Publisher:
Flicker Alley
Robert Nelson: On a thread

By Anonymous on Sun, 18/01/2015 - 04:21

Following the tradition of the west coast American independent filmmakers, Robert Nelson (1930-2012) has created a unique cinema profoundly marked by a corrosive humour and a subtle sense of self-mockery. Directed with his friend, the painter William Wiley, The Great Blondino (1967) pays an astonishing homage to the French tightrope walker Charles Blondin (XIX century) famous for having crossed the Niagara Falls on a wire. At the crossroads of European surrealism and popular American culture, the film of Robert Nelson is an invitation to a reverie with a tint of tragic absurdity. This portrayal of an uncertain universe - on the edge of consciousness and unconsciousness – is sharing with the enigmatic collage film by the American filmmaker Larry Jordan, Hamfat Asar (1965) a powerful poetry loaded with desires and death impulses.

Screening introduced by Jonathan Pouthier (Centre Pompidou)

Dates:
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 19:00 to Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 18:55
Venue:
Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
The Cinema of Poetry
Informed by the criticism of iconic filmmaker Pier Pasolini, The Cinema of Poetry offers spirited explorations of poetry's influence on classic films by Dimitri Kirsanoff, Ingmar Bergman, and Andrey Tarkovsky. It also highlights how avant-garde films made by Joseph Cornell, Lawrence Jordan, Jerome Hiler, Gregory Markopoulos, and others found rich, unexpected sources of inspiration in a diverse group of poets that includes Stéphane Mallarmé, Emily Dickinson, H.D., Ezra Pound, Robert Duncan, John Ashbery, and Aeschylus. Written with verve and panache, it represents the culmination of P. Adams Sitney's career-long fascination with the intersection of poetry, film, and the avant-garde.

Rating:

Average: 5 (1 vote)
Category:
Books
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art
Produced by Bay Area filmmaker and sound artist John Davis in conjunction with a fellowship and residency at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley CA, this limited edition of 100 includes two hand-silkscreened gatefold LPs and four silkscreened DVDs of original film and music, plus a 50-page booklet of writing and images bound in a hand letterpressed cover. The project was conceived to publicly showcase emerging and established strains of expanded cinema and music collaboration in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as to create a physical document that captured that energy.

Rating:

Average: 5 (2 votes)
Category:
DVD
Publisher:
San Francisco Cinematheque
Experimental Response Cinema: Katabasis

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 02/01/2014 - 17:04

A term used to describe a journey to the underworld, Experimental Response Cinema and MASS Gallery present Katabasis, a trip to a land of spectacles, of alchemical concoctions, of the most precise hallucinations. Don’t fear, there is a way out – near, far, wherever you are. A screening with a focus on performance, featuring work by Mary Helena Clark, Lawrence Jordan, David Lebrun, Jesse McLean, Shana Moulton, and Stuart Sherman.

Dates:
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 20:00 to Saturday, January 25, 2014 - 19:55
Venue:
MASS Gallery - Austin, United States