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MIA Journal Issue 4 - Launch Event

By Moving Image Artists on Lun, 28/03/2022 - 04:12

Join us at 2pm BST on Saturday 2nd April for an online launch of MIA Journal Issue 4! For this event we will be joined by artists Loosii Ninjas, Edd Carr, Léna Lewis-King, Sapphire Goss and Lee Campbell who will present talks, films and performances.
Fechas:
Sábado, Abril 2, 2022 - 14:00
FILM PANIC Issue 7 - Out Now!

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 12/12/2018 - 14:58
In issue 7 of FILM PANIC Magazine we speak with six artists working across the vast landscape that is contemporary moving image. Their work ranges from experimental feature films for cinema, to multiscreen video works for gallery, to expanded cinema performances and to short films for both the small and big screen.
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Lanzamientos
Irish Film Institute: premiere of Dean Kavanagh's Animal Kingdom

By Anonymous on Mar, 17/04/2018 - 10:25

Animal Kingdom, the latest experimental feature film by filmmaker Dean Kavanagh to premiere at The Irish Film Institute (IFI) at 18.30, Wednesday, April 25th.
Fechas:
Miércoles, Abril 25, 2018 - 18:30
Local:
Irish Film Institute - Dublin, Irlanda
FILM PANIC Presents! A Showcase of Underground and Experimental Cinema

By Anonymous on Mar, 25/04/2017 - 03:57

Film Panic Presents! is a monthly showcase of contemporary underground and experimental films, bringing to Porto a range of unique films, cinematic visions and explorations of bold filmmakers who are challenging and expanding the art of cinema today. These sessions are presented by Film Panic (Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais) in association with Shortcutz Porto, and take place at Auditório Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, with the support of Câmara Municipal do Porto.

In this session we are delighted to present three programmes of contemporary experimental and underground cinema.

Fechas:
Miércoles, Abril 26, 2017 - 21:30
Local:
Almeida Garrett Library - Porto, Portugal
Experimental Film Society - Video On Demand

By Marcos Ortega on Mar, 21/04/2015 - 14:24
Over the past five years, four prolific underground filmmakers have emerged to define a new and distinctive visionary strain of filmmaking in Ireland. Under the banner of Experimental Film Society, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Dean Kavanagh, Michael Higgins and Maximilian Le Cain have forged a defiantly personal and marginal cinema that is fast becoming recognized as "an important new direction" (Donal Foreman, Estudios Irlandeses) in Irish film. Sharing an exploratory approach to filmmaking where films emerge from the interplay of sound, image and atmosphere rather than traditional storytelling techniques, their work has been singled out for its radical formal qualities and poetic sensibility. Made with low or, most often, no budgets, this is filmmaking at its most challenging and independent.

Now, for the first time, their archive of forty-three feature and medium length films is available on VOD to stream or download. Explore this unique catalogue of work here (http://goo.gl/4kISRc).
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Noticias generales
Ten Years In The Sun

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 02/03/2015 - 16:27

Dublin-based experimental filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi has become recognized as one of the most radical and uncompromisingly independent talents in contemporary underground cinema. Eschewing traditional narrative, he roots his style in the poetic interaction of sound, image and atmosphere. Visually and sonically hypnotic, his films provide uniquely intense sensorial experiences that question everything you ever took for granted about cinema.

Ten Years in the Sun is Rashidi’s most extreme and ambitious film to date. In it, several bizarre characters are entangled in obscure private obsessions, conspiracies and perversions that flicker on the verge of incoherence against the context of vast cosmic disaster. In an absurdist and fragmented plot, Nicholas Fox (Dean Kavanagh) seeks to make contact with the legendary villains Scorpio (Rashidi himself) and Boris Remy (Maximilian Le Cain) through the intercession of the insane Sergeant-Major Barrett (John Curran), while Herr Käferholz (Jann Clavadetscher) becomes so engrossed in his erotic fixations that he experiences humankind’s most primal state of existence. At the same time, the universe collapses into a random series of incompatible image systems

Fechas:
De Viernes, Marzo 27, 2015 - 18:00 hasta Sábado, Marzo 28, 2015 - 17:55
Local:
The Lighthouse Cinema - Dublin, Irlanda
New Irish underground film

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 06/11/2013 - 18:03

Irish cinema has never been renowned for harboring a vibrant underground or experimental film scene. There have been significant exceptions (most importantly, aspects of the Irish “First Wave” of the 1970s), but it’s only in recent years that a body of films has emerged that offer a powerful rebuttal to that perception. While to announce a fully-fledged “movement” would be premature, it is safe to say that the work of the four filmmakers featured in this series – Rouzbeh Rashidi, Maximilian Le Cain, Dean Kavanagh and Michael Higgins – represent an important new direction in Irish cinema.

Working with minimal and usually non-existent budgets, primarily on video, with zero crew and casts typically drawn from friends and family, all four filmmakers have been developing at a prolific rate over the past few years. Between them, they have produced 32 features since 2008 – though it must be admitted Rashidi, who in 2012 alone directed 9 features and 76 short films, has been the most insanely fertile contributor. All the filmmakers are members of the Experimental Film Society, an international organization founded by Rashidi aiming “to produce and promote films by its members” who are “distinguished by an uncompromising, no-budget devotion to personal, experimental cinema.” As this series will make clear, they have also been known to appear in each other’s films, and even collaborate on film projects together from time to time. (Strangely enough, Rashidi, Le Cain and Kavanagh have even released three albums of sound art together, under the collective moniker “Cinema Cyanide”.)

Fechas:
Jueves, Noviembre 7, 2013 - De 19:30 hasta 23:30
Jueves, Noviembre 21, 2013 - De 19:30 hasta 23:30
Jueves, Diciembre 5, 2013 - De 19:30 hasta 23:30
Local:
Spectacle Theater - Nueva York, Estados Unidos
Black Sun Cinema

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 23/07/2012 - 16:09
Black Sun Cinema: A Day of Experimental Film
Sunday, August 12 2012, 13:30h
Triskel Christchurch, Tobin St.,Cork, Ireland

Presented in association with Triskel Christchurch, Black Sun, Cork's weirdo/outer limits music/film event, is presenting a day of unsettling experimental film, a host of rare cinematic shadows flickering mysteriously at the darker fringes of the mind. On the afternoon of Sunday August 12th, adventurous souls seeking haven from the harsh summer light will find sanctuary in Triskel’s Christchurch Cinema as three programmes of hauntingly dreamlike avant-garde visions fall through the church’s muffled darkness to take possession of all present:

American underground legend James Fotopoulos’ feature The Nest (2003) “offers up a bleak and cryptically funny assault on suburban anomie… Fotopoulos creeps around the edges of character and drama, conjuring moods of paranoia and dread that suggest the carefully ordered routines of daily life are a kind of opiate administered by sinister forces. Shooting in harsh 16mm color, Fotopoulos renders The Nest in a typically Spartan, forbidding style that makes it seem as though he is some extraterrestrial visitor photographing humans for the first time.” (Scott Foundas, Variety) Ideal mind-warping viewing for admirers of David Lynch who think they’ve seen everything…

Frans Zwartjes is arguably Holland’s preeminent experimental filmmaker. His highly stylised, poetically claustrophobic films achieve a unique level of sensual intimacy in their renditions of sexual and domestic tension, and voyeurism. These wordless works draw on performance art but are equally distinguished by their oneiric visuals, disconcerting editing rhythms and hypnotically minimal sound design. Once Zwartjes has caressed the surface of your eyeballs, you will never see cinema in the same way again. Black Sun will present a mini-retrospective of five of his most accomplished short films from the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

And three of Ireland’s most uncompromising contemporary experimental filmmakers, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Dean Kavanagh and Black Sun film programmer Maximilian Le Cain will be on hand to present a series of their more disturbing short films. Strange atmospheres, tense self-portraits, troubled meditations on the ghostly power of cinema itself… Filmmaking at its most eerie and obliquely personal.
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Eventos