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PIX Film Gallery: Abraham Ravett

By Marcos Ortega on Vie, 19/10/2018 - 02:06

Abraham Ravett will be showing the following films at PIX Film Gallery, Toronto , Canada.

- The March (1999, 25 min, 16mm, sound)- Horse/Kappa/House (1995, 33 min, 16mm, sound)- Tziporah (2007, 7 min, silent ,16mm)- Notes for a Polish Jew (2012, 8min, silent, 16mm)

Fechas:
De Martes, Noviembre 6, 2018 - 19:00 hasta Miércoles, Noviembre 7, 2018 - 18:55
Local:
PIX Film Gallery - Toronto, Canadá
The Festival of (In)appropriation #8

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 27/01/2016 - 04:57

Los Angeles Filmforum presents The Festival of (In)appropriation #8

Curators Jaimie Baron and Greg Cohen in person!

Whether you call it collage, compilation, found footage, détournement, or recycled cinema, the incorporation of already existing media into new artworks is a practice that generates novel juxtapositions and new meanings and ideas, often in ways entirely unrelated to the intentions of the original makers. Such new works are, in other words, “inappropriate.” This act of (in)appropriation may even produce revelations about the relationship between past and present, here and there, intention and subversion, artist and critic, not to mention the "producer" and "consumer" of visual culture itself. Fortunately for our purposes, the past decade has witnessed the emergence of a wealth of new audiovisual elements available for appropriation into new works. In addition to official state and commercial archives, resources like vernacular collections, home movie repositories, and digital archives now also provide fascinating material to repurpose in ways that lend it new meaning and resonance.

Fechas:
Domingo, Febrero 21, 2016 - 19:30
Local:
Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian - Los Angeles, Estados Unidos
Millennium Film Workshop: Abraham Ravett

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 20/05/2015 - 18:14

Abraham Ravett was born in Poland in 1947, raised in Israel and emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1955. He holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Filmmaking and Photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past thirty years. Mr. Ravett received grants for his work from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Artists Foundation Inc, Boston, MA., The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, The Japan Foundation, The Hoso Bunka Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. His films have been screened internationally including the Museam of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, The Collective For Living Cinema, N.Y.C., Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA., S.F. Cinematheque, L.A. Forum, Innis Film Society, Toronto, Canada, Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan and Scratch Projection, Paris France, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland and Ponrepo, Prague, Czech Republic, among others.

Fechas:
Sábado, Mayo 23, 2015 - 19:30
Local:
Millennium Film Workshop - Nueva York, Estados Unidos
FFD: Abraham Ravett retrospective

By Marcos Ortega on Jue, 27/11/2014 - 07:27

As part of the 13th Festival Film Dokumenter

The Abraham Ravett Retrospective program is an effort to reflect on the significance of the aesthetics of cinema – the complexity of visual journeys that can be interpreted from so many events and moments, especially from a personal perspective – that leads us to collectively discover something more plural. Although experimental cinema is no longer a new discourse in documentary, Ravett’s works may introduce new challenges to our audience in Yogyakarta.

The filmic discourse is not limited to the simple notion that photography can evoke memories of the past or nostalgia. The combination of mediums used by Ravett translates major events as well as represents his personal journeys – his identity formed around immigrant Jewish lives and the myriad connections through the passage of historical time. The explorations are transcendental and are not limited to the particular re-narrations of Nazi atrocities.

Fechas:
De Jueves, Diciembre 11, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Viernes, Diciembre 12, 2014 - 18:55
De Viernes, Diciembre 12, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Sábado, Diciembre 13, 2014 - 18:55
Abraham Ravett - Piyut I-V
Abraham Ravett's recent films are now on a new dvd entitled PIYUT I-V. Contains Notes For A Polish Jew (2012), From Prague to Poland (2010), What My Father Would Have Seen In Poland (2010), Non-Aryan (2009) and Trepches (2009).

Valoración:

Promedio: 2.5 (2 votos)
Categoría:
DVD
Editor:
Self-published
Echo Park Film Center: Abraham Ravett

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 29/08/2012 - 02:11
Echo Park Film Center: Abraham Ravett
Saturday, September 8, 2012, 20h
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, California USA

Abraham Ravett will present a program of recent and previously made films. The screening includes three films that reflect the complexities of filial relationships; the lingering impact of the Holocaust, and with Horse/Kappa/House, the Japanese rural landscape is presented as a space of loss, memory and collective history.

Programme:
- The March (1999)
- Horse/Kappa/House (1995)
- Tziporah (2007)
- Notes for a Polish Jew (2012) (on DVD)
Categoría:
Eventos
History, Memory, Return

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 11/06/2012 - 17:00
History, Memory, Return
Abraham Ravett, Baba Hillman, Michael Rice
Wednesday June 13, 20h
Les Voûtes
19 rue des Frigos 75013 Paris

This programme focuses on the concepts of memory and return, proposes to introduce the films of three artists from Amherst and Massachusetts through varied works combining two projections, performance and found footage. How does the body experience memory? How does memory become body experience? How do we decipher or do we interpret the visible and invisible maps that memory, landscape and return draw on the body?

Abraham Ravett was born in 1947 in Poland, grew up in Israel and moved to New York in 1955. He lives and makes films in Amherst three decades. He received first prize at the Venice Biennale and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. His films were shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Image Forum in Tokyo, the Anthology Film Archives in New York, Scratch Projection, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and the LA Forum.

Baba Hillman grew up in Venezuela, Mexico and Japan. Her films were shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, ICAIC (Havana), the Rencontres Paris, Berlin, and the European Media Art Festival (Osnabruck).

Michael Rice is a young filmmaker who works in Amherst. His films will be screened in France for the first time.
Categoría:
Eventos
Nomadic Archive: Abraham Ravett presents the Works of Tom Joslin

By Marcos Ortega on Sáb, 19/05/2012 - 06:23
Nomadic Archive: Abraham Ravett presents the Works of Tom Joslin
Saturday, June 2, 19:30h
UnionDocs
322 Union Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Abraham Ravett in attendance for screening and discussion.

Abraham Ravett will screen and discuss two of Tom Joslin’s works: Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend from 1976, and the posthumously assembled work The Architecture of Mountains (2010).

Ravett writes the following about the project: Before he left for LA in 1981 to pursue a career in Hollywood, documentry filmmaker Tom Joslin completed an innovated and to this day, historically significant film called Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend (1976, 85 minutes, color, sound, 16mm). It was one of the first autobiographical, diary format films that addressed the issue of gay identity and coming out to one’s family. It’s a beautifully made film, formally inventive, and still resonates on many fronts.

When Tom passed away from AIDS, he left all his video tapes from another autobiographical project he had been shooting in LA to a former student named Peter Friedman who in turn, found the resources to construct the much acclaimed film, Silverlake Life: the View from Here.

Prior to leaving Hampshire College in 1980, Tom was working on another film inspired by Jose Argüelles book, The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression. Shot in sync and MOS on 16mm, the footage reflects Tom’s interest in perception, human consciousness, and signaled his evolving interest in fusing non-fiction, experimental and dramatic genres. All the original materials for this unfinished film were stored at the LA home of Ken Levin another former Hampshire College student who along with several other students, worked with Tom on this project, which he called The Architecture of Mountains (62 minutes).
Categoría:
Eventos
An evening with Abraham Ravett

By Marcos Ortega on Sáb, 31/03/2012 - 05:58
An evening with Abraham Ravett
Tuesday April 3rd, 19h
Mount Holyoke College's Art Building, room 320
50 College Street • South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075

A selection of films by American filmmaker Abraham Ravett.

Programme;

- A Calming Breeze (1984, 17 min., color, silent, 16mm)
A look at my son's birth and the rite of circumcision.
- Toncia (1986, 13 min., color, sound, 16mm)
In one continuous, twelve minute take, the filmmaker talks with his mother about her daughter who was killed in Auschwitz.
- Jack Haber (1987, 15 min., b&w, silent, 16mm)
Jack Haber is a film about unheralded lives. Utilizing film material found and purchased in an antique shop, the filmmaker speculates on the life of one, Jack Haber.
- The Visit (2003, 8 min., 16mm, silent)
A child's awakening.
- Tziporah (2007, 7 min, silent, 16mm)
Tziporah is the Hebrew word for bird. This is another cinematic response to grief and loss.
Categoría:
Eventos