Eventos

  • Directors Lounge: Johanna Domke with Marouan Omara

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    Crop is an astounding video piece about a state-owned newspaper building in the center of Kairo. Filmed in 2012 shortly after the Arabic revolution in Egypt, the video represents an interesting, historic moment in time, and it is at the same time a reflection on image making and image representation in times of political changes regardless of local bounds or temporality.

    Set at the press house of Al Ahram (the Pyramids), a conservative newspaper that has been the national official press organ since President Nasser, the viewer is guided to explore the rooms of the house from the top down, following its hierarchy of places, literally from the representative offices down to the cellars with printing machines and packaging of newspaper bundles. While the camera unfolds step by step the complexities of a building, a photo-journalist talks about the beginnings of photo reportage in Egypt. He tells us he missed the revolution staying at the hospital. He speaks about the restrictions photo journalism has had to face from its beginning both from a conservative islamic society, and a regime controlling every publication. At first the journalist seem to be one person, but that is a fiction. His narration actually is a composition of 19 statements of different interviewed journalists, whose opinions differ in complex ways. The sound track of the film is comprised of two separate layers: the ambient sound that goes along with the passage of places that we follow inside the building, and on the other side the voice-over of the interviewed journalist. This voice-over creates a real contrapuntal montage in the sense of Eisenstein's statement on sound film, whereas the ambient sound creates a poetic flow of images, a narrative of space.

    Fechas: 

    De Jueves, Mayo 29, 2014 - 21:00 hasta Viernes, Mayo 30, 2014 - 20:55

    Local: 

    Z-Bar, Berlin - Berlin, Alemania
  • (S8) 5a Mostra de Cinema Periférico

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    La próxima edición de la (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico (4 al 8 de junio en A Coruña) tendrá como protagonista fundamental al cine experimental japonés. El renombrado artista y cineasta Takahiko Iimura será su representante más destacado, con un programa dedicado a su obra, una performance en directo y la video-instalación As I See You See Me. El programa también inclute proyecciones del cineasta superochista Teruo Koike y de los miebros del colectivo [+] Makino TakashiShinkan Tamaki y Rei Hayama. 'Through a Rearview Mirror: Japanese Experimental Films Revisited' es el título de la retrospectiva comisariada por el fundador del Doble Negative Collective Daïchi Saïto, quien además presentará un programa de sus películas.

    El festival Media City será invitado especial este año, y sus directores y prgoramadores Jeremy Rigsby y Oona Mosna presentarán una selección de películas que cubren los veinte años de vida de este veterano festival. Además, la creciente sección de cine expandido se completará con performances de Esperanza Collado, Makino Takashi y el Colectivo Cráter.

    Fechas: 

    De Miércoles, Junio 4, 2014 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Junio 8, 2014 (Todo el día)
  • Ausencias Vislumbradas

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    Programa presentación de Angular, como parte de la cuarta edición del Festival de Cine Lima Independiente (29 de mayo al 7 de junio)

    Filmar la ausencia, representar lo incorpóreo e imaginar lo espiritual son algunos de los puntos en común de una selección de películas que reflejan la necesidad por invocar lo invisible. Mediante acercamientos estéticos de implicaciones tecnológicas, las piezas agrupadas en esta sesión se acercan a lo intangible revelando un tono onírico, serenamente hipnótico. Desfragmentando un registro factual –unas estaciones de ferrocarril convertidas en espejismos cuadriculares–; presenciando comuniones espectrales en entornos solitarios –unos paisajes evocadores visualizados en celuloide químicamente alterado–; reflexionando sobre la mutabilidad de los acontecimientos en una región dañada por movimientos sísmicos –junto a los razonamientos verbales de los habitantes de la zona–; interrumpiendo el curso temporal de los acontecimientos bajo un patrón estructural –una filmación continua en el interior de un autobús, sistemáticamente editada– y evidenciando la fragilidad del cuerpo ante la inmensidad de la naturaleza –tres acciones performáticas en lugares inhóspitos, actuadas y sufridas por la propia realizadora–, son las estrategias de unos trabajos donde lo que se insinúa adquiere tanta relevancia como lo que se visualiza.

    Fechas: 

    De Domingo, Junio 1, 2014 - 16:00 hasta Lunes, Junio 2, 2014 - 15:55

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  • Handmade Bohemia: The Films of Helen Hill

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    Helen Hill’s vibrant, humorous, handcrafted works use diverse techniques including puppets, cel and stop-motion animation, live action, painting and drawing. Her filmmaking combines a playful sense of participation and community with a clear-eyed recognition of the somber rhythms of death and rebirth. Film prints (courtesy of Harvard Film Archive) include Mouseholes (1999), Madame Winger Makes a Film (2001) and The Florestine Collection (2011) – completed posthumously by her husband, Paul Gailiunas.

    Join Experimental Response Cinema and the Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz for this very special evening, curated by Jason Cortlund & Julia Halperin (Now, Forager)!

    Fechas: 

    De Sábado, Mayo 31, 2014 - 17:00 hasta Domingo, Junio 1, 2014 - 16:55

    Local: 

    Alamo Drafthouse Ritz - Austin, Estados Unidos
  • Sheffield Fringe 2014

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    Film at the intersection of art and documentary

    This year’s extended edition of Sheffield Fringe (June 6-14) considers the relationship between aesthetics and emergency politics, manifested as experimental narratives. Encountering both domestic and institutional arrangements, cultural conditioning, and national political milieux, the ethics of artistic agency and representation are brought into question as filmmakers cross-examine their chosen subjects from many angles. Improvisation may inform both subject matter and approach, with egos incisively and humorously dismantled; the specifics of a given place or circumstance may be scrutinized. The films, performances, and discussions that make up Sheffield Fringe 2014 are by turns playful and unsettling, with monologue emerging as a strategy for preservation, and dialogue as the option to move things forward into the future.

    Fechas: 

    De Viernes, Junio 6, 2014 (Todo el día) hasta Sábado, Junio 14, 2014 (Todo el día)

    Local: 

    Bloc Projects - Sheffield, Reino Unido
  • Early Monthly Segments #63: Susan Oxtoby + Lis Rhodes

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    This month Early Monthly Segments is delighted to be presenting three films that are distinguished by their political and critical resonance while exhibiting a profound, poetic and unique handling of the materials and form of film. In Light Reading Lis Rhodes uses a series of still photographs to suggest a mystery, or perhaps more accurately to explore the tropes of the language of mystery. Layering images and text both still and moving, and playing with repetition and image registration and measurement Light Reading is as much about the characteristics of film and photography and who is the subject and/or the object of such as the story it skirts. Similarly layered and elliptical A Cold Draft functions as a multifaceted poetic reportage of the experience of those left behind in the trickle down dystopia of the 1980s UK. The voice of a single narrator comes to embody a chorus of defeated subjects surviving perpetual oppression. Susan Oxtoby’s All Flesh Is Grass revolves around the exploration of the ruin of a 19th century shopping arcade in Buffalo NY, combined with footage of spaces, friends, children and characters in Toronto and in New York City.

    Fechas: 

    De Lunes, Mayo 12, 2014 - 20:00 hasta Martes, Mayo 13, 2014 - 19:55

    Local: 

    Gladstone Hotel - Toronto, Canadá
  • Atelier Impopulaire: Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder with Claudio Rocchetti

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    Entanglements is a multiple projection performance by Luís Recoder and Sandra Gibson that invites sound artists to process the optical film tracks from up to four 16mm projectors. The scratched opaque footage is not what interests us per se but the effect it has in dispersing or scattering the projected audio-visual event itself.

    - Entanglements for (up to) Four Projectors (2009 – 2014)
    Multiple 16mm projectors, black & white film loops, mixed media, live optical sound processed by Claudio Rocchetti, 60 minutes

    The following day, Saturday May 10, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder will install a special version of Threadbare.

    - Threadbare (16mm projector, film, reels)
    “Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder look back at the history of film technology. Their richly imaginative installations and sculptures treat celluloid and the projector in ways that are surprising and evocative. Their artworks are poetic and beautiful, offering profound insights into the nature of the medium. Threadbare (2013) is a film projector wrapped in 16mm film footage whose silhouette calls to mind Mickey Mouse.” - John G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Fechas: 

    Viernes, Mayo 9, 2014 - 20:30

    Local: 

    Careof DOCVA / Viafarini - Milan, Italia
  • Mex-Parismental 9

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    For this ninth edition, in collaboration with the Collectif Jeune Cinema, Mex-Parismental, unveils a cinema of creative filmmakers of the young generation from Mexico and Latin America. This annual event is an unique opportunity to stay informed about the most contemporary experimental cinema and video from Mexico to the Southern Cone. Mex-Parismental will take place this year on Tuesday, April 29 at Point Ephemere to highlight this cinematographic production. The Artists, filmmakers and videographers represented in this edition, offer us a beautiful journey regardless of clichés and establish an intercultural encounter, far from the political and social dictates of their country of origin.
    Curated by Angelica Cuevas Portilla

    Fechas: 

    De Martes, Abril 29, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Miércoles, Abril 30, 2014 - 18:55

    Local: 

    Point Éphémère - Paris, Francia
  • Two Ways Down

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    Adams and Ollman is pleased to announce Two Ways Down, Laura Heit's new hand drawn animated installation, on view May 2 through May 31. Please join us for an opening reception with the artist on Friday, May 2 from 6-8pm.

    Reflecting on the momentary nature of life, Heit’s fantastical piece uses thrown shadows from tabletop dioramas and reflected and refracted animated projections to create a fleeting world where human-animal hybrids, specters and body parts morph and flit across the walls.

    Fechas: 

    Viernes, Mayo 2, 2014 (Todo el día)

    Local: 

    Adams And Ollman - Portland, Estados Unidos
  • Light Industry: Brian Frye - The Waste Books

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    Writing of Joseph Cornell, Jonas Mekas remarked that his films “deal with things very close to us, every day and everywhere. Small things, not the big things…His works have the quality—be they boxes, collages, or movies—of being located in some suspended area of time.” One finds a similar sensibility in the films of Brian Frye, particularly so in a cluster of 16mm works completed around the turn of the 21st century, just as the end of small-gauge cinema seemed all too immanent. At once literal actualities and sphinx-like artifacts, Frye’s films might at first seem like outtakes from lost projects, or damaged archival isolates, bearing grainy images that beg for exegesis: Kennedy-era actors awkwardly intone lines from a portentous melodrama; a woman’s face flits in and out of legibility beneath a storm of visual debris; a old man points to a weathered gravesite, his lips mouthing silent words; Civil War soldiers maneuver at the edge of a forest. These moments play like misplaced bits of someone else’s memories, physical records of our world mysteriously unmoored from their origins.

    Fechas: 

    Martes, Abril 29, 2014 - 19:30

    Local: 

    Light Industry - Nueva York, Estados Unidos

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