A Trio of Films That Examines Play Featuring the work of Stacey Steers, Charlotte Pryce, and Gina Kamestky Guest Curator: Laura Heit
A trio of films that carefully examines play; by reconfiguring, and relocating once discarded images, building layers, and creating new meaning. A hockey game is replayed using erasure and a lyrical hand painted line to examine the beauty and rhythm in this bloody sport. Another buries generations’ past evening entertainment in the garden and unearths new complex stories for bedtime. Colors unlike anything we relate to dirt, sublime in their secret history.
Dates:
Monday, August 14, 2017 (All day) to Wednesday, October 4, 2017 (All day)
Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain will conclude their month-long residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais (CCI), Paris, with a screening and discussion of their moving image work on Monday August 28th at 7.30pm in the CCI. Langan and Le Cain will show three of their short films and talk about the work they have been engaged in while in Paris.
Alternative Film/Video 13-17 December 2017, Belgrade
Perhaps the most referenced statement on politics in cinema is Jean-Luc Godard’s notion that the ideal is not to make political films, but to make films politically. Godard proclaimed this at a turning point in his career – when he turned to alternative forms of cinema, alternative forms of authorship, alternative aesthetics. The consequences of such a shift in thought and action have continued relevance and demand further investigation. Is alternative film and video the preferred foundation for a political cinema to flourish?
As a filmmaker, curator, author and teacher, Birgit Hein is one of the most important names of the German experimental film. From the late 1960s to the late 1970s, with her then husband Wilhelm Hein, she made some of the most radical works within the so-called structuralist-materialist tradition, in which the film's illusory qualities were rejected and a study of its materiality was instead put in focus.
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is now inviting submissions to its 64th edition, which will take place in Oberhausen from 3 to 8 May, 2018. The Festival organises five competitions: International, German, films from North Rhine-Westphalia, International Children’s and Youth Films and the MuVi Award for the best German music video. A total of almost 42,000 Euros will be awarded in prize money.
For its 30 year anniversary, Saarlandisches Filmbüro invites Pierre Villemin to a meeting with the public, and to show a panorama of his work from 2005 till 2017 with three short films between documentaries and experimental movies.
