LIQUID FORM: water in experimental film Two days & two programs of experimental films that incorporate, are inspired by, or focus on water as material and subject.
1967 was the year that the Canyon Cinema Co-op was born in San Francisco. Formed as a distribution cooperative for films made by members, it grew out of the itinerant Canyon Cinema formed a few years earlier by a loose association of Bay Area artist-filmmakers. The Canyon Co-Op was the west coast’s contribution to a growing international network for showing and seeing films that fell outside the bounds of polite manners, censors’ approval, and art-world decorum.
Dates:
Friday, July 14, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, July 15, 2017 - 18:55
06.07.17 + 07.07.17 | Brett Kashmere[plus films by Nathaniel Dorsky + Robert Breer + Nam June Paik + Lillian Schwartz + Takashi Ito + Yvonne Rainer + Will Hindle]
“The first book to consider video as an art form, was influential in establishing the field of media arts. In the book he argues that a new, expanded cinema is required for a new consciousness. He describes various types of filmmaking utilising new technology, including film special effects, computer art, video art, multi-media environments and holography.” (Wikipedia)
From that late fifties until his death in 1987, Will Hindle was a major figure in the American Avant-Garde and what has been called the Personal Film Movement, as defined by a conscious move away from the industrial methods of production toward a more individualistic and idiosyncratic cinema. Incredibly technically adept as well as emotionally astute, Hindle utilized complex optical effects to craft beautiful, evocative and densely-layered short films that play out vividly like dreams and resonate long after. Being neither wholly abstract nor rooted to narrative form, the fictive elements within the films tend to forgo exposition, instead working with the images, colors, and sound to create a strong sensorial experience that channels a deep empathetic response within the viewer.
Dates:
Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 19:00 to Friday, May 20, 2016 - 18:55
Este libro se basó en artículos que publiqué entre 1967 y 1970 en The Los Angeles Free Press, el primero y el más influyente de los periódicos underground que florecieron en los Estados Unidos en esa época. Las columnas sobre nuevos medios aparecieron bajo el logo "Cine expandido", un término acuñado entre 1966 por el cineasta experimental y artista pionero de multimedios norteamericano Stan Vanderbeek. Investigué y escribí el resto del libro en 1969 y principios de 1970.
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Filmforum’s 35th Anniversary Show: A Celebration of Kodachrome Sunday January 30, 2011, 19:30h At the Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian 6712 Hollywood Blvd. (at Las Palmas), Los Angeles CA 90028
Los Angeles Filmforum presents