This selection of artists’ films looks at bodies of water through technologies of seeing, sensing, and investigation to help us imagine different ecologies and less visible, even alien environments. Exploring various approaches to “remote sensing,” these works frame life on an increasingly unliveable planet through militarized and infrastructural forms of oceanic space. What can the relationship between the visibility of a watery surface and the invisibility of what exists below it tell us about possible futures — on and beyond our own environments?
EAI is pleased to present a special evening with filmmaker Vivian Ostrovsky, to mark the New York launch of a compendium of her newly-remastered works by Paris-based experimental film hub Re: Voir. Ostrovsky, whose work ranges from montage shorts to experimental artists' bios, diary features and immersive installations, will introduce selections within and beyond the Re:Voir collection.
Cinema Parenthèse is happy to bring Claes Söderquist in Brussels again. "Le génie civil" (1969), "Landskap" (1985-87) and "Briefe aus dem Schweigen" (1989) will be shown in the presence of the artist.
Fechas:
De Martes, Abril 9, 2019 - 19:00 hasta Miércoles, Abril 10, 2019 - 18:55
Ariana Gerstein joins us from New York to present her remarkable animations and experimental films, often using imagery created from scanners. “The tactile films of Ariana Gerstein reconcile her fascination with filmic materiality with the soft ephemeralities of light, time and memory. Using complex hand-wrought editing methods and extensive optical printing Gerstein’s work dazzles in its visual complexity and rhythmic timing.
Filmmaker, “media archeologist,” and interim chair of the SFAI Film Department Kerry Laitala makes use of decaying cultural relics and antiquated medical technologies to resurrect images and artifacts that have been forgotten. For her screening on April 3, she will present her own work together with haunting, melancholic work by Phil Solomon and the recently departed Barbara Hammer–as well as a special performance of her recent expanded cinema work Chromatic Wheels, with a live score by Jon Leidecker.
Elizabeth Block es cineasta, artista y escritora de poesía y ficción. Sus textos se han publicado en gran número de periódicos y revistas, y en internet. Su obra literaria incluye la novela A Gesture through Time (Un gesto a través del tiempo), una obra híbrida de prosa, poesía, folioscopio textual y relato guionizado de amor obsesivo y ambiguo, muerte y una inusual historia del cine.
Fechas:
De Lunes, Abril 15, 2019 - 18:00 hasta Martes, Abril 16, 2019 - 17:55