Eventos

  • Screensavers 001: A Night of Experimental Audio Visual Performances

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    Screensavers pairs musicians with filmmakers for three brand new audio visual performances featuring live cinematic projections edited before your eyes, decaying feedback loops, powerful drones, audio reactive graphics, deconstructed VHS tapes, electro-acoustic improvisation, drum machines and maybe even some guitars.

    Nathan Halverson + Jason Robinson 
    Taka Suzuki + Ryan Maguire/Jon Bellona
    Greg Nachmanovitch + Will Bollinger

    collaborative, improvisational, pretty cool.

    Fechas: 

    De Sábado, Abril 26, 2014 - 20:00 hasta Domingo, Abril 27, 2014 - 19:55

    Local: 

    The Bridge PAI - Charlottesville, Estados Unidos
  • Courtisane Festival 2014

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    In its yearly festival, Courtisane 2014 (April 2-6, Ghent, Belgium) presents a kaleidoscopic mosaic of styles, media, gestures, languages and emotions; a patchwork of recent and historical works that share an insatiable hunger for experimentation, a personal signature, and a sense of resistance. The main core of this year's programme will include recents and classic works from artists such as Leslie Thornton, Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers & Ben Russell, Laida Lertxundi, Gary Beydler, Bruce Baillie, Nathaniel Dorsky, Alexandra Cuesta, Morgan Fisher, Camille Henrot, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, Olivier Dekegel, Sarah Vanagt, Black Audio Film Collective and Larry Gottheim among many others.

    This edition's "Artist in Focus" is Ken Jacobs, who will be the protagonist of several dedicated screenings and a performance with composer and visual artist Aki Onda.  The programme "Across the Margins, Beyond the Pale: Re-imagining the post-colonial" will include films by Kidlat Tahimik, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Med Hondo, Carlos Mayolo & Luis Ospina, Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Glauber Rocha.

    The festival will also feature several musical and performatic events with Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda, Julius Eastman (works for 4 pianos), Wanda Group, Christina Vantzou, Angela Melitopoulos & Bettina Knaup and Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri.

    Fechas: 

    De Miércoles, Abril 2, 2014 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Abril 6, 2014 (Todo el día)
  • Sheffield Fringe: Write after reading

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    The shifting physicality of the written word in the age of digital surveillance continuously warps and renegotiates notions of the personal and the political throughout this selection of films. Personal footage and self-interrogation are re-appropriated in narratives that blur the lines between documentary, manifesto and fiction.

    With 40 years between them, John Latham’s Encyclopaedia Britannica (1971) and Andrew Norman Wilson’s Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011) both interrogate the evolving physicality and accessibility of the written word. Helen Benigson’s The Future Queen of the Screen (2011) starts with an old-fashioned, echoing keyboard clang, never letting go of the seductive tactility of the digital interface. Equal parts futuristic dystopia and childhood holiday nostalgia, Daniel Mann’s Future Diaries (2011) creates an improbably seamless experiment in narrative dissonance from the artist’s father’s Hi-8 family video archive.

    A discussion will follow the screening. 

    With thanks to Openvizor, LUX, and Angus-Hughes Gallery.

    Fechas: 

    De Martes, Abril 15, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Miércoles, Abril 16, 2014 - 18:55

    Local: 

    Hackney Picturehouse - London, Reino Unido
  • Turbidus Film Presents: Cécile Fontaine

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    Film screenings and artist talk
    Curated By Daniel A. Swarthnas

    "Cécile Fontaine works with what can be called margins, the excluded parts of cinema, revindicating scratching, soaking, de-collage and so filmmaking passes as a primarily plastic activity, with almost no material resources, renewing at once with the first major steps of the Dadaists in their collage – principally in the works of Schwitters and especially the collage of Hannah Höch executed with a kitchen knife and the work of recycling or how to make art without having the air to have touched it." - Yann Beauvais

    Born in 1957 in south of France, grew up in a French oversea departement named Ile de la Réunion in the Indian Ocean; studied art both in France (1975/1979) and in the United States (Boston 1980/1986) where she started making film in 1982 after taking an evening film class at Massachussetts College of Art then registering full time at School of Museum of Fine Arts, majoring cinema. Returned in France in 1986 and lives since then in Paris, teaching art fulltime in a primary school and making films.

    Fechas: 

    De Domingo, Abril 13, 2014 - 19:00 hasta Lunes, Abril 14, 2014 - 18:55

    Local: 

    Fylkingen - Stockholm, Suecia
  • Directors Lounge Screening: Karl F. Stewart - Impressions in Mind

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    Karl F. Stewart: Impressions in Mind
    Photographs and Video

    Karl F. Stewart makes a mark in digital photography and video with his saturated colors and his rigorous compositions showing urban landscapes. He works with a photographic hybrid combination between still images and videos that do not hide their origin in their photographic concept. After being a documentary photographer in the 70's in Pittsburgh, his home town, he worked as an English lecturer in Italy for 24 years, before he took up photography again only 5 years ago, now going fully digital.

    San Francisco, his next temporary residency after Italy, became his starting point for his relaunch in photography, where he mostly explored the downtown area. Not just the financial district of San Francisco, but a big part of the highly dense urban areas show an amazing economic growth with glossy surfaces and artificial contemporary green landscaping on one hand, and wide spread poverty of homeless people on the other. “The Unearthly Beauty of Simulated Nature in Contemporary Architecture” is Stewart's most pronounced piece from that period, presented as a video-photo essay. At the same time, the artist started exploring motion-blur and photoshop cut-outs. “Impressions of Movement” is a series of panoramic works that resulted and which he continued in different countries such as USA, Italy and France. The time-based presentation of digital pictures, that seems to be natural to the medium, led to digital video as his preferred medium at the moment. The artist recently moved to Düsseldorf, where he continues exploring landscapes and urban settings in often unearthly colors. Like with “K-20”, showing a small fountain at the K 20 Museum in Düsseldorf, the examinations of urban-nature relations combined with sometimes witty surprising experiments, seem to propel his creative energy most successfully.

    Fechas: 

    De Jueves, Marzo 27, 2014 - 21:00 hasta Viernes, Marzo 28, 2014 - 20:55

    Local: 

    Z-Bar, Berlin - Berlin, Alemania
  • Ann Arbor Film Festival 2014

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    Ann Arbor Film Festival, el festival más veterano dedicado al cine y vídeo experimental, regresa la próxima semana en su edición número 52 comn un programacompuesto por más de 200 filmes, vídeos y performances en directo. Durane la semana de duración del festival (25 al 30 de marzo), el público de este podrá disfrutar de una retrospectiva completa del documentalista Thom Andersen, así como de retrospectivas parciales de Penelope Spheeris y del cinetsta en super-8 de Detroit Joseph Bernard. El festival presentará asimismo nuevas obras de los cineastas Sabine Gruffat, Malena Szlam, Michael Robinson, Rebecca Meyers, Shambhavi Kaul, Ben Russell, Mónica Savirón, Mark Toscano, Robert Todd y Sílvia das Fadas entre muchos otros.

    Otros elementos a destcar de esta edición incluyen la proyección de una copia recién restaurada de la pieza Chicago Loop (1976) de James Benning, el estreno de la obra inédita de Bruce Baillie Little girl (1966), así como una exposición dedicada al magnum opus de Phil Niblock The movement of people working.

    El calendario completo del festival puede consultarse aquí.

    Fechas: 

    De Martes, Marzo 25, 2014 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Marzo 30, 2014 (Todo el día)

    Local: 

    Michigan Theater - Ann Arbor , Estados Unidos
  • Festival du nouveau cinéma - Montréal

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    A major event on the Canadian cinema scene for 44 years now, the Festival du nouveau cinéma has proven its ability to continually adapt to the most avant-garde audiovisual practices in the field.

    During eleven days of festival : over 300 films (feature and short films) by directors from Québec, Canada and abroad, installations, performances, transmedia projects, cocktails, parties, conferences, and encounters are offered to the audience.

    Fechas: 

    De Miércoles, Octubre 7, 2015 - 18:45 hasta Domingo, Octubre 18, 2015 - 23:55
  • CGAI: Larry Gottheim

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    Larry Gottheim nació en 1936, en Nueva York. Aprendió de forma autodidacta a manejar su cámara de 16mm., comenzando a filmar en los años 60 y convirtiéndose muy pronto en uno de los realizadores más importantes del cine de vanguardia americano. Desde finales de los años 60, su serie de películas, todas ellas concebidas a partir de tomas formadas por un único plano, comienzan a densificar las construcciones en torno a la relación entre el sonido y la imagen, especialmente a partir de mediados de los años 70 y, posteriormente, su cine se alza como el cine de la presencia, de la observación y del compromiso con una conciencia profunda. Mientras se aproximaba a los motivos paisajísticos, a las formas del diario y al montaje –como colección– fílmico, la obra de Gottheim sigue siendo única en sus intensas investigaciones en torno a las paradojas centradas en una experiencia directa y sensual que entra en colisión con las estructuras complejas de la repetición, de la anticipación y de la memoria.

    Gottheim estuvo al frente del Departamento de Cine en Binghamton (Nueva York), y fue profesor allí durante más de tres décadas. Este departamento, extremadamente influyente, atrajo a los artistas con más talento, a los académicos y a los cineastas de la época, incluyendo a Ken Jacobs, Hollis Frampton, Peter Kubelka o Ernie Gehr, entre muchos otros. En los años 90, Gottheim también trabajó como director, durante una breve época, de la New York Film-maker’s Cooperative. Las películas de Gottheim se encuentran en las colecciones de los museos y en los archivos de muchos lugares del mundo, y un programa de sus primeras películas restauradas se presentó en el New York Film Festival en 2005.

    Comisariada por Revista Lumière

    Fechas: 

    Martes, Marzo 18, 2014 (Todo el día)
    Miércoles, Marzo 19, 2014 (Todo el día)
    Jueves, Marzo 20, 2014 (Todo el día)
    Viernes, Marzo 21, 2014 (Todo el día)

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  • BORDERLAND - The entropy of identities

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    BORDERLAND – The entropy of identities international video art screening will be held in Almeria (Spain) at Museo de Almería on the 13th of March 2014 and at MECA Mediterráneo Centro Artístico on the 27th of March 2014; and in Granada (Spain) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Granada, on the 23rd of April 2014. Forty-six artists have been selected to take part in the exhibition.

    Entropy is conceptually defined as the measure of the level of disorder in a changing system. Starting from this fascinating concept, each person can be considered as a changing system, as the same as for a specific culture, city or country, until the whole universe. All these systems are subjected to a process of continuous inner evolution which overcome their own boundaries to contaminate and crossbreed each others. Borders of this evolving systems get more and more fleeting, and their identities turn out fluid, multiple and changeable. These continue changes find in the inevitability of evolution their measure of order.

    Fechas: 

    De Jueves, Marzo 13, 2014 - 20:00 hasta Viernes, Marzo 14, 2014 - 19:55
    De Jueves, Marzo 27, 2014 - 20:00 hasta Viernes, Marzo 28, 2014 - 19:55
    De Miércoles, Abril 23, 2014 - 20:00 hasta Jueves, Abril 24, 2014 - 19:55
  • Early Monthly Segments #61: 5th Anniversary Screening

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    To celebrate our fifth year anniversary we’ve given ourselves the challenge of programming (and projecting) an evening of double projections!

    Vanessa O’Neill’s sublime Suspension uses rephotography, tinting and superimposition to turn a westward view of the Pacific Ocean into a sublime interplay of waves, light and grain. Malcolm Le Grice’s classic Berlin Horse is a film that explores the possibilities of the loop, taking a short fragment of a silent film and subjecting it to a series of colour processes amplified by the phased music of Brian Eno. Daichi Saito’s Never a Foot Too Far, Even is a contemporary expansion, superimposing a section of a Kung-Fu action film into a perceptual play, accompanied by a violin composition by Malcolm Goldstein. Tonight’s screening of Visions in Mediation #2: Mesa Verde, Stan Brakhage’s vision quest to the ruins of the Ancient Peublo cliff dwellings in Southwestern Colorado is amplified by a second print given to Kate MacKay from the filmmaker as a gift. And finally, a third projector will be sparked to present For My Crushed Right Eye, Toshio Matsumoto’s ode to the social unrest and expansion of the late sixties, all of which threatened to burst out of the frame.

    Fechas: 

    De Lunes, Marzo 17, 2014 - 20:00 hasta Martes, Marzo 18, 2014 - 19:55

    Local: 

    Gladstone Hotel - Toronto, Canadá

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