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The Experimental Narratives of Warren Sonbert

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 08/05/2023 - 02:46

In a career that spanned the American experimental film world from New York City to San Francisco, filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947–1995) was driven by the belief that “independent film...is the only avenue for those who want to take risks and satisfy their own self-imposed demands.” This retrospective of a seminal figure in experimental film encompasses Sonbert’s complete body of work from its beginning in 1966.
Dates:
Thursday, May 11, 2023 (All day) to Friday, May 19, 2023 (All day)
Venue:
MoMA New York - , United States
Depth of FIeld. Ar, Fogo, Terra, Água: Carte Blance to Ana Vaz

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 08/07/2019 - 03:46

As an extension of her exhibition at Matadero's Nave 0, Cineteca hosts AR, FOGO, TERRA, ÁGUA, a carte blanche in which the Brazilian artist Ana Vaz (Brasilia, 1986) puts her own work in dialogue with a personal history of cinema in which claims a poetic-physics of impurity. From Bruce Baillie to Toshio Matsumoto, through the new Latin American cinemas and the North American avant-garde, Vaz invites us on an elementary journey - air, fire, earth, water - for a personal and political, artistic and ethnographic cinema.
Dates:
Friday, July 12, 2019 (All day)
Sunday, July 14, 2019 (All day)
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 (All day)
Sunday, July 28, 2019 (All day)
Venue:
Cineteca Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Xcèntric: Journeys and Songs

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 20/03/2018 - 13:02

The filmed letter can take the form of dedication, song, offering, celebration, postcard. “Correspondences: Films as Letters”, Punto de Vista’s cycle for 2018, takes as its starting point the idea that, in cinema, an exchange of letters does not have to be sent, and even admits the possibility of making a film letter without a recipient in mind.
Dates:
Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 19:30
Venue:
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
Ad Hoc #3: Beautiful Rage

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 17/07/2017 - 10:40

Three milestones of avant-garde filmmaking. Wieland, Brakhage and Sonbert transcend, at least in part, their despair and rage against imperialism, war, violence, and homophobia, through art.

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” (Frankenstein, Mary Shelley)

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against realty." (Lewis Carroll
Dates:
Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 19:00 to Friday, August 11, 2017 - 18:55
Venue:
Innis College - Toronto, Canada
Elegy to Ecstasy with Edith Kramer

By Anonymous on Fri, 05/05/2017 - 04:35

Canyon Cinema travels to Berkeley this week for a special screening of pivotal works from its collection. As a part of Canyon Cinema 50, its celebration of half a century in continuous operation, and together with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s ongoing series Hippie Modernism: Cinema and the Counterculture, 1964-1974, the distributor will co-present Elegy To Ecstasy, an evening of films made by some of the most influential figures in the history of avant-garde cinema.

Dates:
Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 19:00 to Friday, May 12, 2017 - 18:55
Venue:
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - Berkeley , United States
Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader

Horak J-C, Mekas J, Rabinovitz L, Varda A, Suárez JAntonio, Ganguly S, Tartaglia J, Haug K, Wolf R, Chin D 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
Eye on a Director: Canyon Cinema

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 06/07/2016 - 15:22

For the second installment of Eye on a Director, MAD highlights the collection of the legendary film distributor and archive Canyon Cinema. In the late 1950s, Canyon Cinema brought together independent film artists whose work reflected a remarkable diversity in style and content. Variously called avant-garde, underground and experimental, these artists shared a vision of filmmaking as a form of personal expression, free from the demands and constraints of commercial conventions.
Dates:
Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 8, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 15, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 22, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, July 29, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, August 4, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, August 5, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, August 12, 2016 - 18:55
Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, August 19, 2016 - 18:55
Venue:
Museum of Arts and Design - ,
Framework 56.1 – Warren Sonbert: Selected Writings
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media vol.56 issue 1 is devoted entirely to the writings of avant-garde artist Warren Sonbert. The journal features reproductions of Sonbert's original typed, handwritten and published documents. The issue is guest edited by Jon Gartenberg and is organized into sections related to Sonbert's interests in art, music, poetry, travel and film.

Contents:
Drake Stutesman
Editorial
Acknowledgments and Accreditations

Ascension Serrano
Preface
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L’Âge d’Or 2015

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 21/09/2015 - 10:18

Belgian experimental film festival L’Âge d’Or comes back next October 3-10 with the second edition of its new run. 2015 celebrates the 50th anniversary of Super 8 and so for its second edition, the Âge d’Or festival has chosen to pay homage to the work of the fiercest advocates of this format, too often denigrated and considered ‘amateur’. A format however that has been, and sometimes still is, the terrain of innovative cinematic experiments, full of the constraints that only it can create.
Dates:
Saturday, October 3, 2015 (All day) to Saturday, October 10, 2015 (All day)
Venue:
Cinematek - Brussels, Belgium
Xcèntric: Visions of the Body II - Sonbert/Herbert

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 14/03/2013 - 11:54
Xcèntric: Visions of the Body II: Sonbert/Herbert
Thursday March 21 2013, 20h
Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

One of the most recurrent themes in the work of Warren Sonbert is love between couples (the dynamic of communication, the loving relationship and desire). The Bad and the Beautiful, one of his first colour films with a pop music soundtrack, shows the private rituals of young people on the New York art scene of the sixties. He brings a contemplative approach to his portrayal of couples and the beauty of people in private, in the bedroom and in the street, relaxing with friends, embracing, lying down or waiting for a lover. The filmmaker and painter James Herbert—better known for his music videos for R.E.M.—explores the fragility of the human body using the cinema’s most basic formal properties: light and texture. Porch Glider, a silent film in color, is a meditative, sensual study of adolescent couples naked in the garden, on the porch and in the many rooms of an old house in the US South. With their different filmic strategies, Sonbert and Herbert present a series of specific bodies associated with gesture and the historic context of the late sixties.

- The Bad and the Beautiful (Warren Sonbert, 1967, 16 mm, 34 min)
- Porch Glider (James Herbert, 1970, silent, 35mm, 25 min)
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