Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927) is an American and author. He began making films around age nine, but his early films are now lost. His first film to see distribution was , filmed in Los Angeles in 1947, which gained the attention of Jean Cocteau, who then invited him to go to Paris. In 1949, Anger directed The Love That Whirls which according to the 1972 book Experimental Cinema contained (faked) nudity, and was thus confiscated by the film lab. While most of his films are short subject (ranging from 3.5 minutes to 30 minutes) mood pieces, in 1955 he made a documentary film of the ruins of Crowley's in Cefalù, Sicily, which is now considered a lost film.
Como extensión de su exposición en Nave 0 de Matadero, Cineteca acoge AR, FOGO, TERRA, ÁGUA, una carta blanca en la que la artista brasileña Ana Vaz (Brasilia, 1986) pone en diálogo su propio trabajo con una personal historia del cine en la que reivindica una poética-física de la impureza. De Bruce Baillie a Toshio Matsumoto, pasando por los nuevos cines latinoamericanos y la vanguardia norteamericana, Vaz nos invita a un viaje elemental -aire, fuego, tierra, agua- por un cine personal y político, artístico y etnográfico.
P. Adams Sitney: Medio Siglo De Programación De Vanguardia | Conferencia y proyección comentada |
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola ha propuesto al autor que elija un programa ideal que pudiera ilustrar sus 50 años como programador, comisario, crítico y espectador.
En esta sesión, enmarcada dentro de la exposición “1.000 m2 de deseo. Arquitectura y sexualidad”, podremos ver tres piezas esenciales del cine experimental norteamericano. Barbara Rubin, Kenneth Anger y Jack Smith filman sendas visiones transgresoras del cuerpo y el deseo situadas en el espacio de la pura fantasía.
Introduction: Toward a new history of the experimental cinema
Part one. Origins of the American avant-garde cinema, 1920-1959. - The first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945 / Jan-Christopher Horak - Notes on the new American cinema / Jonas Mekas - The woman filmmaker in the New York avant-garde / Lauren Rabinovitz - Women in the avant-garde: Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, and Trinh T. Minh-ha / Agnès Varda
La editorial Paris Expérimental—creada en 1985— se ha convertido en un peculiar lugar de encuentro entre el cine experimental y su historia. Esta casa editorial, con unas cincuenta publicaciones y eventos de referencia, ha contribuido en Francia al conocimiento y reconocimiento de formas cinematográficas experimentales, a menudo marginalizadas.
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Miércoles, Noviembre 25, 2015 - De 14:00 hasta 21:00
Written by Jonas Mekas for Film Culture in 1955, the article "Experimental Film in America" was particularly critical against the film avant-garde in America considered at that time by the young film critic as "the imprisoned self". Especially violent against filmmakers whose Jonas Mekas will defend the work later with passion and no limits – from Sidney Peterson to Stan Brakhage, Ian Hugo or Kenneth Anger – this lampoon reflected then the need of breaking the accepted ideas inherited from the tradition of the avant-gardism in cinema, but also the necessity, for the film critics, to canalize the dispersed energy of a young and rising generation of filmmakers. Conceived from this founder and critiqueable text, the program Model, Counter Model offers to revisit the use against type of films by critics.
