Eventos

  • Magic Lantern Presents: Body/Voice

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    It is often noted that men and women inhabit space very differently, as evidenced by the popular Tumblr account, Men Taking Up Too Much Space on the Train. Photo after photo show male passengers with legs maximally splayed and arms raised to grasp a Very Important Newspaper, while women demurely cross their arms and legs with visible signs of discomfort. It doesn't take a professional philosopher or sociologist to realize that this stark contrast between spatial expansion and contraction is not a fact of biology but a set of learned behaviors. For most women, something has broken in the unifying chain of consciousness/body/world; an institutionalized double standard ensures that men enjoy the lion's share of free, unhindered, fluid movement in space.

    The films in this program demonstrate various ways in which women filmmakers have sought to engage more fully with their world, oscillating between the savage critique of social norms and the affirmation of new powers and pleasures. It goes without saying that cinema, with its disjuncture of image and sound, its capacity for metamorphosis and even the grotesque, is one of the most powerful tools we have for the reconfiguration of body and voice.

    Curated by Seth Watter

    Fechas: 

    De Jueves, Marzo 13, 2014 - 20:00 hasta Viernes, Marzo 14, 2014 - 19:55

    Local: 

    Cable Car Cinema & Cafe - Providence, Estados Unidos
  • Judith Barry: …Cairo stories

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    Created from a collection of more than 200 interviews Judith Barry conducted with Cairene women between the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the beginning of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, …Cairo stories is a series of short video monologues. The selection of stories chronicles personal experiences of women from a variety of social and economic classes in Egypt and expands the artist’s concerns with notions of representation, history, subjectivity, and translation – particularly as these ideas circulate across cultures.

    The original interviews were conducted in simultaneous translation to maintain fluidity and integrity of tone and meaning, and Barry considers them to be collaborations between her and the subjects. The vast source material was then ‘vetted’ by a diverse range of Cairene women. The emotional integrity of each woman’s story is the crux of this project; the translators and interviewees remained active participants in both the narrative arc of their stories and the development of the project. In the gallery, a selection of 15 narratives is performed by actors, highlighting that all stories, including those we tell ourselves, are ultimately fictions.

    Fechas: 

    De Jueves, Abril 10, 2014 (Todo el día) hasta Sábado, Mayo 31, 2014 (Todo el día)

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    waterside contemporary - London, Reino Unido
  • Xcèntric: Robert E. Fulton. Un territorio en la mente

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    Cineasta, aviador y músico norteamericano, Robert E. Fulton (1939-2002) murió en un accidente aéreo con su propia avioneta en Pennsylvania. Fue un artista de una complejidad y profundidad poco común. Trabajó como camarógrafo aéreo y como director de fotografía en diversos documentales, entre ellos los de su amigo Robert Gardner. Sus enigmáticas y laberínticas películas están llenas de una desafiante poética que evoca cierta prosa metafísica. Fulton es un acróbata y un agitador, y mezcla imágenes e ideas creando insólitas sobreimpresiones que transmiten un sentido lírico muy personal. Su cine es el de un aventurero, capaz de descubrirnos el deslumbrante paisaje de un nuevo mundo.

    Programa:
    - Vineyard IV, 3 min
    - Swimming Stone, 14 min
    - Starlight, 1970, 5 min
    - Path of Cessation, 1974, 15 min
    - Aleph, 1982, sin sonido, 17 min
    - Wilderness: A Country in the Mind, 1984, 20 min.

    Fechas: 

    De Jueves, Marzo 13, 2014 - 20:00 hasta Viernes, Marzo 14, 2014 - 19:55

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  • Kinoplaylist: Laida Lertxundi y Alberto Cabrera Bernal

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    Como parte del ciclo El Cine Revelado

    Laida Lertxundi y Alberto Cabrera Bernal son dos cineastas que optan por el formato celuloide como medio de expresión. Así la tradicional videoplaylist, donde un determinado personaje comparte sus vídeos favoritos de internet ante un auditorio, se transforma aquí en una sesión hipnótica denominada kinoplaylist, en la que armados con sendos proyectores de 16mm cambian la red por, físicamente, el cine. Una propuesta novedosa con proyecciones cruzadas, en la que compartirán sus propias películas, las películas inspiradoras de otros autores y una sorpresa final que supone una colaboración específica entre los dos artistas para este proyecto.

    Fechas: 

    Domingo, Marzo 2, 2014 - 18:30

    Local: 

    CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo - Móstoles, España
  • Choreographies of Creation and Destruction

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    Joshua Churchill, John Davis and Greg Pope In Person
    Presented in association with ShapeShifters Cinema and Stanford University’s Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery

    In Apparent Motion 2012—the performance cinema centerpiece to that year’s Crossroads film festival—British artist Greg Pope brought down the house with the 16mm Cipher Screen, his two-projector masterwork of erasure and construction. For a follow-up appearance Pope returns to the Bay Area for a series of expanded cinema performances with live sound collaboration at Stanford University, ShapeShifters Cinema and Cinematheque. Tonight’s program features Pope’s his dual-slide projector piece Celluloid, a slide projector-based flicker film, a “celluloid ghost,” a proto-cinematic excursion through the detritus of industrial cinema. Live soundtrack to Celluloid to be performed by local electroacoustic ensemble Voicehandler. Single-channel films by Pope—including Mass Observation, Moon Walk and Incidence Room—will also screen. Preceding Pope is the Bay Area’s own John Davis with his sound/image amalgams and live slo-motion image analysis, presented with the live sonic accompaniment of Joshua Churchill. (Steve Polta)

    Fechas: 

    Sábado, Marzo 1, 2014 - 19:30

    Local: 

    Center for New Music - San Francisco, Estados Unidos
  • AXWFF: The Ghost Thing

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    The Ghost Thing, an AXWFF Screening

    Reviewed by Joel Schlemowitz in Boog City Issue 87, p8: “Haunted Landscapes Poetic and Experimental Cinema Screenings” 

    Programme:
    - The Broken News Series – Part 1: Disaster (Lori Felker, USA, 4.00 minmin.)
    - Missing Green (Joey Huertas aka Jane Public, 9.48min.)
    - Melt In The Shade (Kyoungju Kim, USA, 6.00min.)
    - No. 1515 (Carolyn Radlo, USA, 5.37min.)
    - Gowanus Haze (Margaret Rorison, Brooklyn, 5.41min.)
    - The Time That Remains (Soda Jerk, Australia, 12.00min.)
    - The Deep Dark (Laura Heit, USA, Music: Emily Lacy, 7.07min.)
    - 2198 ghosts in the sun people in the sea (Yvette Granata, USA, 3.20min.)

    For Complete Information: http://axwff.com

    AXWFF promotes and screens films made by women that: are experimental or feature alternative forms, or that may contain themes and issues distinct to women and girls.

    AXWFF works to inspire others to make and hone their own experimental work to be shared in a public forum.

    Fechas: 

    De Miércoles, Marzo 5, 2014 - 18:00 hasta Jueves, Marzo 6, 2014 - 17:55

    Local: 

    Anthology Film Archives - Nueva York, Estados Unidos
  • Bozar: Bruce McClure/Els van Riel

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    18h - Els Van Riel / Chiyoko Szlavnics / Johan Bossers
    - Gradual Speed (Els Van Riel, 2013, 16mm, b&w, 50')
    With links to the tradition of structural film making, the work by the Brussels based film-and videomaker, Els Van Riel, explores the fundamental elements for cinema: time, light and the matter of analogue cinema itself.
    “Gradual Speed is a work on and for black and white 16mm-film seen as matter, and at the same time as a metaphor for everything we cannot grasp”. (Els van Riel)

    - Concert: Constellations I-III for Piano & Sinewaves (Chiyoko Szlavnics, 2011, 15’). Piano. Johan Bossers.
    The soundtrack for Gradual Speed was created in collaboration with Chiyoko Szlavnics (CAN/DE). She studied music at the University of Toronto, and privately with the composer James Tenney. Her approach relies on drawings as the basis for her compositions and on observations of the interactions between electric and sine waves and the sounds produced by instruments. Her Constellations will be interpreted by the pianist Johan Bossers (BE), co-founder of Champ d’Action, and active in the ensembles Ictus, QO-2, Spectra and I Fiamminghi.

    20h - Bruce McClure
    - A Leak in the Thatch (Bruce McClure, 2014)
    Projector performance for two modified projectors and two bi-packed film loops
    The performances of Bruce McClure (US) are immersive physical experiences with obvious hallucinatory characteristics. Stretched in time they develop an intensity on the level of light and sound, texture and color, blur and flicker while exploring the interference of the images, though McClure (trained as architect) never loses the spectator and the surrounding space out of sight. The sound of the projectors can take on monstrous proportions, deformed by pedals, often used for electrical guitars…. As if the spectator and the cinematic space are sucked into the epicenter of the cinematographic apparatus itself, in the heart of the machine, in a burst of light and the sputtering of the engine. “To me, it’s an experience of nature like a rainy day or being overwhelmed by vertigo in an assault of snow blindness.”

    Fechas: 

    De Sábado, Marzo 8, 2014 - 18:00 hasta Domingo, Marzo 9, 2014 - 18:55

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  • FLEXfest 2014

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    FLEX: the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, will be presenting its 10th annual festival from February 21-23 at the Wooly in downtown Gainesville. This year’s festival is a curated event with curators representing six international filmmaking “scenes” presenting a program of work from their respective cities.

    Friday night features a program curated by Daïchi Saïto from Montreal’s Double Negative collective at 7 p.m. followed by a live expanded cinema performance by Sally Golding, curator of the Unconscious Archives series in London (and member of the artist-run film lab no.w.here as well as co-curator of the international expanded-cinema collective OtherFilm).

    Saturday begins with a roundtable discussion at 2 p.m. that will present an overview of the structure of each of these local scenes before exploring in depth the different organizational and funding models that they use. At 7 p.m., there will be a presentation of films and videos by Rei Hayama of the Tokyo-based + (Plus) group followed by an expanded cinema performance by Mexico City’s Trinchera Ensemble (Elena Pardo, Morris Trujillo, and Rafael Balboa) with Seattle-based experimental musician Eric Ostrowski providing a live score.

    Sunday again begins with a 2 p.m. roundtable focused on local scenes in a global context, exploring the tensions and ironies as well as the opportunities presented by work circulating beyond their local and national contexts. Sunday night concludes the festival with programs of films and videos selected by Guillaume Cailleau of LaborBerlin at 7 p.m. and Sébastien Ronceray of Braquage (Paris) at 9 p.m.

    Fechas: 

    De Viernes, Febrero 21, 2014 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Febrero 23, 2014 (Todo el día)
  • Canyon Cinema Salon: Sandra Davis

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    Canyon Cinema Foundation is proud to announce its new public programming adventure – the Canyon Cinema Salon. An opportunity for dialogue and exploration, these monthly events are designed as a platform for the community to directly engage and learn from moving image artists in an intimate setting.  Artists will have an open forum to present work from their repertoire,  discuss creative process, and share their inspirations. Free, open to the public and volunteer run, the Salon series is hosted by New Nothing Cinema (16 Sherman Street, downtown San Francisco).

    Join us for the inaugural Canyon Cinema Salon on Monday, February 24th featuring San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker and curator Sandra Davis. She will present a contrasting duo that demonstrate differing avenues of motivation and inspiration in her practice – Ignorance Before Malice (2006, excerpt), a blistering essay film that sheds light on the struggle to heal within the American medical system and coming to terms with one’s own physical limitations and mortality; along with a very personal, short, ode-like work For A Young Cineaste / A Une Jeune Cineaste (2014) which blissfully travels into another, and  private, direction.

    Fechas: 

    De Lunes, Febrero 24, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Martes, Febrero 25, 2014 - 18:55

    Local: 

    New Nothing Cinema - San Francisco, Estados Unidos
  • Sonic Circuits presents Expanded Cinema at the DC Independent Film Festival

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    Experimental Cinema and Music Program at DC Independent Film Festival

    A live experimental cinema and sound event where filmmakers and sound artists collaborate to create a new audiovisual experience.

    - Lynn/Barbiero/Rouzer
    Unedited Super 8 films shot by Chris H Lynn will be accompanied by a live improv score from Daniel Barbiero, Gary Rouzer, and Chris H Lynn. The score will include double bass, clarinet, cello,objects, and various sound sources. The rhythm of the projector and the internal tempo of the shots will also contribute to the audiovisual experience.

    - Margaret Rorison
    Margaret Rorison is a writer, curator and filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. Rorison's work has been screened at various festivals and venues including Mono No Aware VI & VII, Brooklyn, NY; T.I.E. Alternative Measure’s, Colorado Springs, CO; 2013 Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington D.C.; Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Eyebeam, New York, NY; The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia; and The High Zero Festival, Baltimore, MD.

    - Video Love
    The electro-pop duo's first album features nine uninhibited tracks which magnify and refine an essential melodic and rhythmic simplicity. Elmapi and Matterlink send radical beats in motion while letting loose sampled sounds to swirl into their retro-futurist world. Rhythms fall like waves of rain and accumulate to the rupture point while the vocals rally the radical sounds with tactile and determined verse. Filmmaker and sensory experimenter Matterlink aka James Schneider has been working with sound and image for more than 20 years - beginning with his early years in Washington DC's punk community playing music, working in photography, and multiple projecting 16mm films during concerts. As Matterlink, he performs a raw, sound-driven approach to this new art of live cinema.

    Fechas: 

    Sábado, Febrero 22, 2014 - 15:30

    Local: 

    Goethe Institute Washington - Washington, Estados Unidos

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