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MassArt Film Society - Events in Shadow: Films by Paul Clipson

By Marcos Ortega on Mar, 19/09/2017 - 04:06

This evening of experimental 16mm works, projected by the filmmaker on film, showcases a variety of dynamic sound and celluloid image collaborations with musician/artists such as Grouper, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Sarah Davachi, Lawrence English and King Midas Sound / Fennesz.

Filmmaker present!
Fechas:
De Miércoles, Septiembre 20, 2017 - 20:00 hasta Jueves, Septiembre 21, 2017 - 19:55
Local:
MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos
Representations and Metaphors

By Marcos Ortega on Vie, 30/06/2017 - 18:30

MassArt Film Society presents Representations and Metaphors Fuses by Carolee Schneemann & Misconception by Marjorie Keller
Fechas:
De Miércoles, Julio 5, 2017 - 20:00 hasta Jueves, Julio 6, 2017 - 19:55
Local:
MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos
The Long & The Short Of It! films by Holly Fisher

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 08/05/2017 - 06:26

Massart Film Society presents,The Long & The Short Of It! Films by Holly FisherFilmmaker present!

Fechas:
De Jueves, Mayo 11, 2017 - 20:00 hasta Viernes, Mayo 12, 2017 - 19:55
Local:
MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos
Balagan presents... A Breathing Passage: The Films of Stephen Broomer

By Anonymous on Sáb, 17/10/2015 - 15:09

In the past half-decade, Toronto-based Stephen Broomer has established himself as one of the most prolific and poetic experimental filmmakers of the day. His works seamlessly traverse the mediums of photochemical film and digital video, exploiting the particularities of each and bringing them together to create densely-layered, highly textural moving canvases. Not content to fall into formulaic practice, he continues to expand upon his cinematic vocabulary with each work, informed by greats such as Brakhage yet distinct in approach and methodology. Balagan and MassArt Film Society are pleased to co-present a near complete retrospective of Stephen Broomer's films to date.

Fechas:
De Miércoles, Octubre 21, 2015 - 20:00 hasta Jueves, Octubre 22, 2015 - 19:55
Local:
MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos
MassArt Film Society: Neil Henderson - Materiality, Music and Landscape

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 08/01/2014 - 18:29

Neil Henderson's work has encompassed multiple projector pieces, experiments with the materiality of film and photography, and films about landscape. His work has been shown at Diversions Film Festival, Edinburgh; the Onion City Film Festival, Chicago; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Anthology Film Archives, New York and Modern Art Oxford. In 2009 his film Circles was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing prize. His work is discussed in Nicky Hamlyn's Film Art Phenomena (London: BFI, 2003). He studied at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and the Slade School of Art and teaches Film Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Filmmaker in person!

Fechas:
De Miércoles, Enero 22, 2014 - 20:00 hasta Jueves, Enero 23, 2014 - 19:55
Local:
MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos
MassArt Film Society: Pablo Mazzolo

By Marcos Ortega on Dom, 03/11/2013 - 17:41

Pablo Mazzolo was born in Buenos Aires in 1976. He studied Image and Sound Design at University of Buenos Aires. He has made several short films exploring different celluloid formats and creating special devices to make images. His films have participated in festivals like Rotterdam film festival (Netherlands), New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant Garde, Hamburg Kurzfilmfestival (Germany), BAFICI (Buenos Aires), London film festival, Media City Film Festival (Canada), VIDEOEX (Switzerland), among others. He was also invited to attend in various film performances in museums like MOCANOMI, MAMBA, MALBA. In the year 2011 his feature film script AM1019 has participated in the Oaxaca Screenwriter Lab (Sundance-Toscano). His film Oaxaca Tohoku won the prize of Metropolitan Fund of Ars. In the year 2013 Conjectures, won the 1st prize in Media City Film Festival (Windsor, Canada).

He is interested in the onthological relationship between images and people. He is currently running workshops about visual perception and creation of images, for mentally disabled and for psychiatric boarders. He is one of the founders of A.R.C.A. (Regional Archive for Amateur Cinema) dedicated to the preservation of amateur films and home movies.

Fechas:
De Miércoles, Noviembre 6, 2013 - 21:00 hasta Jueves, Noviembre 7, 2013 - 20:55
Local:
MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos
Massart Film Society presents The Films of Tomonari Nishikawa

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 14/10/2013 - 16:22

"In five silent 'sketch' films, introduced by San Francisco morning’s newspaper and its date, Japanese filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa assembles single-frame constructions of cityscapes, of walks down streets, which take on their own quietly spastic frenzy even while evoking other things, such as the many-eyed camera of a Google Street View street car gone into a drunken, propulsive swoon. Lines, circles, numbers, windows, doorways, oval windows and buildings that persist only as angled precipice. Fragmentary glimpses are patterned to create an illusion of persistence of vision, but they are shards upon shards. Weirdly, the effect is both limpid and soothing.

In the mini-DV 'Clear Blue Sky,' ordinary traffic sounds of a warm day rise up against images slightly out-of-focus, or reflected across metal, like a funhouse mirror fashioned from macular degeneration."

Filmmaker in attendance!

Fechas:
De Miércoles, Octubre 16, 2013 - 20:00 hasta Jueves, Octubre 17, 2013 - 19:55
Local:
MassArt Film Society - Boston, Estados Unidos
MassArt Film Society: Multi Projector Experiments by Roger Beebe

By Marcos Ortega on Jue, 29/09/2011 - 04:28
MassArt Film Society: Multi Projector Experiments by Roger Beebe
Wednesday October 5th 2011, 20h
Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department
Screening room 1. 621 Huntington Ave. Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

Experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, brings a program of his recent mutli-projector films to the Northeast for a fall 2011 tour. In these films Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors—running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously—not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of expanded cinema.
The show builds from the relatively straightforward two-projector films “The Strip Mall Trilogy” and “TB TX DANCE” to the more elaborate three-projector studies “Money Changes Everything” and “AAAAA Motion Picture” on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space, “Last Light of a Dying Star.”

"[Beebe’s films] implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose Western photographs captured the banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial America." --David Fellerath, The Independent Weekly
“Beebe’s films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American landscape.” --Wyatt Williams, Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
"Beebe's work is goofy, startling, and important." --Daniel Kraus, Wilmington Encore
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MassArt Film Society: Maya Deren & Stan Brakhage

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 18/04/2011 - 03:12
MassArt Film Society: Maya Deren & Stan Brakhage
Wednesday April 20th 2011, 20h
Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department
Screening room 1. 621 Huntington Ave. Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

Meditation on violence by Maya Deren & Song 23 The 23rd Psalm Branch by Stan Brackhage

Meditation on violence (Maya Deren, 1948)
With Chao Li Chi and music by Teiji Ito
As the movements of Chinese boxing is "forward" some metaphysical concepts of physical, MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE film is, in cinematic terms, a discussion of these concepts using physical movement as a visual means among others. The film begins and ends in the middle of a movement to make it as a visual slice of life, whereas it was and will be at infinity. Respiratory rate, alternating negative / positive, is maintained during approaches and withdrawals from the boxer facing the camera

23rd Psalm Branch (Stan Brakhage, 1966-78)
One of experimental great Stan Brakhage's best known but least seen films, 23rd Psalm Branch is a feature-length entry in his Songs series. It is both a beautiful, lyrical work and perhaps his most political film.
Brakhage combines his own images of Colorado, found footage of war, and some of his earliest hand-painting on film to create a work that is rich with meaning and a key artistic milestone for him. Shot in 8mm and later blown up to 16mm, Song 23 is an extended meditation on war in society, made in response to the war in Vietnam. It is a haunting work, still relevant in it theme and one of Brakhages masterworks. Author P. Adams Sitney wrote that "it is an apocalypse of imagination".
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MassArt Film Society: Lori Felker & Robert Todd

By Marcos Ortega on Dom, 06/03/2011 - 13:54
Co-respondents Recent work by Lori Felker & Robert Todd
Wednesday March 16th 2011, 20h
Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department
Screening room 1. 621 Huntington Ave. Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

To Co-respond, or “respond” together, implies a match, which is (used) to light a flame or, in other words: to create light together, or to make light, to lighten, or to illuminate while at the same time unburdening, which suggests a vertical movement (a sort of anti- or counter-gravitational movement) and allowing the freedom to “move” more readily, and in this case interactively, one “note” in the correspondence opening a portal through which correspondent and correspondee can mosey, float, stride, jump, or ooze, and con- sider from both sides, the “outside” becoming an inside from within which other casements can be carved, other throughways considered, taken, burst apart and re-imagined. If there is an end point it’s formed/ found on the edge of the horizon of this hall of revolving mirrors, dissolving what seemed to be a clear illusion of singularity, exploding the personal while turning over, under, upward, sideward, onward.

THE ARTISTS:
Lori Felker
Lori chose Filmmaking as her official second language in 2003-ish, bumping German into third place. Eventual fluency is important to her, so she employs many forms/formats, practices frequently with others, and tries hard not to shy away from expressing her thoughts on human behavior, travel, inter-activity, frustration, failure and political irritants.

Robert Todd
After a lifetime torn between music and drawing/painting, film sauntered into the picture in 1989 and offered Rob Todd’s maker-innards a truce that seems to have endured ever since. A lyrical filmmaker as well as a sound and visual artist, he continually produces short works that resist categorization.
The works in this program have been included in programs at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, Migrating Forms, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, WNDX Festival, and the WiP Festival.
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