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Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an non-narrative filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. He worked with various kinds of celluloid: 16mm, 8mm, 35mm, and IMAX, and was a practitioner of what he referred to as 'pure cinema'.

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United States

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Stan Brakhage and Home Movies

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 27/12/2019 - 13:21

No other avant-garde filmmaker explored and celebrated the aesthetics of home movies with more fervor and complexity than Brakhage, most notably in his Songs, Sincerity, Nightmare, and Duplicity series. This program, selected by his wife Marilyn Brakhage, is a sampling of this work. Program 95 min.
Dates:
Friday, January 10, 2020 - 19:00
Venue:
MoMA New York - , United States
In the Inner Space

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 05/07/2019 - 08:49

Every man remembers the first words of Neil Armstrong after stepping on the lunar surface, on July 20, 1969. Few remember, instead, those of his partner Buzz Aldrin: "Magnificent view. Magnificent desolation. " What did Aldrin see, where are these images, what was that desolation like? When it is 50 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing, Cineteca revisits the crossed paths of cinema, science and lunar exploration, and goes through the images with which cinema dreamed of the moon and outer space.
Dates:
Thursday, July 11, 2019 (All day)
Sunday, July 21, 2019 (All day)
Venue:
Cineteca Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Stan Brakhage: An Adventure in Perception

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 21/05/2019 - 08:52

Avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage moved to New York in 1954, a stay which culminated in the seminal film Anticipation of the Night. Brakhage broke with the idea that film should record and tell a story acted out for the camera. Here, there is no on-screen protagonist; the protagonist is the director, the images on screen communicate his subjectivity. To do so, Brakhage developed an array of strategies and techniques, including fluid handheld camera movements, rapid editing, and the use of abstract imagery.

Dates:
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 19:00
Venue:
Barbican Cinema - London, Reino Unido
Fracto: Expanded Painlevé

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 08/05/2019 - 04:21

The special programme “Expanded Painlevé”, conceived with guest curator Federico Rossin, combines the films of Jean Painlevé, surrealist poet of wildlife, with those by filmmakers from the American and European avant-garde who have pursued different modes of openness to the animal world.
Dates:
Saturday, May 25, 2019 - 19:45
Venue:
ACUD Berlin - Berlin , Germany
The Electric Gaze. International Seminar on the Intersections between Image, Technology, and Critical Thought.

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 30/01/2019 - 12:10

How does technology reproduce the mechanisms of vision? What questions arise from the intersections between capitalism, art, cinema, the mind, and neuroscience? What are the political, social, and philosophical consequences of the technological expansion and recreation of the visible? Who decides how we see and what we see? This following February at Cineteca Madrid we will explore the visual imaginaries produced by the technologies of cinema, art, performance, critical thinking, and virtual reality that amplify our ways of seeing and being in the world.
Dates:
Friday, February 1, 2019 (All day) to Saturday, February 2, 2019 (All day)
Venue:
Cineteca Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Lessons in Perception. The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist
Narrative comprehension, memory, motion, depth perception, synesthesia, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists. They have also been among the most potent sources of creative inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception melds film theory and cognitive science in a stimulating investigation of the work of iconic experimental artists such as Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Maya Deren, and Jordan Belson.
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Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola: P. Adams Sitney | A Half-Century of Showing Avant-garde Cinema

By Joan Ruiz on Thu, 22/02/2018 - 07:31

P. Adams Sitney | A Half-Century of Showing Avant-garde Cinema | Conference and Screening with commentary

Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola has suggested that the specialist should choose an ideal programme that might illustrate his 50 years as a programmer, curator, critic and spectator.

Dates:
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 19:00
Venue:
Tabakalera - San Sebastián, Spain
Stan Brakhage - Anticipation of the Night
DVD/Blu-Ray combo with the film 'Anticipation of the Night' by Stan Brakhage

“The great achievement of Anticipation of the Night is the distillation of an intense and complex interior crisis into an orchestration of sights and associa- tions which cohere in a new formal rhetoric of camera movement and montage.” -P. Adams Sitney

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Category:
Blu-Ray
Publisher:
Re:voir
Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema
Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, repetition and context. He describes how Wittgenstein's concepts of family resemblance and language games provide a dynamic perspective on the analysis of acts of reference.
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Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Metaphors on Vision
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "Green"? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color.
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Publisher:
Light Industry
Anthology Film Archives