The British film magazine Afterimage (1970-87) was founded more than 50 years ago, in a very different time to our own – one of radical new directions in international cinema and its accompanying manifestos.Over 13 irregularly published issues, each dedicated to a particular theme or filmmaker, a constant for Afterimage was its partisan position devoted to the avant-garde, to a radical cinema understood both aesthetically and politically. Early issues promoted the political cinema exemplified by the Godard of the Dziga Vertov Group and by the films of Straub-Huillet.
Fechas:
De Miércoles, Junio 7, 2023 (Todo el día) hasta Jueves, Junio 22, 2023 (Todo el día)
Hollis Frampton was an American filmmaker, photographer, and theorist who bridged the experimental film and contemporary art worlds in the 1960s and 1970s. Best known for avant-garde films including Zorns Lemma (1970) and (nostalgia) (1971), Frampton spent his later years working on the unfinished epic Magellan, a monumental cycle that used the metaphor of Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world to rethink the natures and meanings of history, modernity, and cinema.
The first collection of critical writing on the work of experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton. Hollis Frampton (1936–1984) was one of the most important experimental filmmakers and theorists of his time, and in his navigation of artistic media and discourses, he anticipated the multimedia boundary blurring of today’s visual culture. Indeed, his photography continues to be exhibited, and a digital edition of his films was issued by the Criterion Collection. This book offers the first collection of critical writings on Frampton’s work.
"(...) En general, la idea de utilizar una cámara para reproducir nuestra manera de ver el mundo - que es el modo de uso regular de una cámara- es una pérdida de tiempo. ¿Por qué no usamos la cámara para mostrar cosas que no podemos ver? O usarla para mostrar cosas de una manera que no podemos imaginar?."
“You cannot apply the principles of painting to a medium that is not painting.” (Paul Sharits).
Film has laws of its own, but along with the other arts in the period around 1960 it searched for certain “zero points” that didn't revolve around nothing, but the whole. This three-part film programme, curated by Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit, includes works from the period between 1958 and 2021 – by Stephanie Barber, Yves-André Delubac, Hollis Frampton, Jorge Lorenzo, Ernst Schmidt Jr., Aldo Tambellini, Joyce Wieland and many more. It also offers rare insight into Gregory Markopoulos’s cinematic life’s work ENIAIOS (1947–91), presented by the film artist Robert Beavers.
El 4 de noviembre de 2001 tuvo lugar la primera sesión de Xcèntric, un programa regular de proyecciones dedicado al cine experimental y de artistas inédito en la ciudad de Barcelona. Justo 20 años después, celebramos el aniversario de Xcèntric con un conjunto de proyecciones, performances y charlas que conforman un homenaje al cine como experiencia colectiva, a la supervivencia del film fotoquímico y al oficio del proyeccionista, además de una necesaria reflexión sobre el presente y el futuro del cine en la era digital.
As part of the summer cycle Femmes femmes, a dedicated special program to the outstanding contribution of director Joyce Wieland to development of Canadian experimental cinema.
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De Miércoles, Agosto 15, 2018 - 21:00 hasta Jueves, Agosto 16, 2018 - 20:55
As part of their inaugural festival, pic.london presents a two-day film programme exploring the relationship between still and moving images. Beginning with film’s infancy at the end of the 19th Century – through the 1960s avant-garde – this programme investigates the ways in which artists and theorists have engaged the moving image to develop, challenge and critique photographic language.
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De Sábado, Octubre 28, 2017 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Octubre 29, 2017 (Todo el día)
