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  • Yaron Lapid: Times of Change

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    Arcadia Downtown (Yaron Lapid, 2008)Yaron Lapid: Times of Change
    Thursday April 29th, 21h
    Directors Lounge, Berlin Base
    Petersburger Platz 2, 10249 Berlin, HH 2. Etage

    Video work of London based artist Yaron Lapid, curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

    Directors Lounge. "Petersburg Nights" is a series of private screenings in our home base. Google map.

    Yaron Lapid, whose video "Night Meter" was shown at Directors Lounge/ Urban Research 2010, presents a programme of his recent video works at our third "Petersburger Night".

    "Research" may be just the right term to characterize the endeavours of the London based artist of Israeli descent. London and Israel also are the fields for his "findings" and video investigations. The interest of the anthropologist, the sensibility of the family annalist and the hard-boiled and distanced eye of the war documentarist, all those labels seem somehow to match but still not really fit for Yaron Lapid. If provoking a London call-centre lady to reveal that she calls from New-Dehli, if watching a victim of drug overdose, or witnessing the relocation of an elder relative from an old retirement home to a new one, we always follow him, the filmmaker, with awe and a deep sense of attestation, as Yaron seems to be able to turn his humane observations into a telling snapshot of the society we share, the social particularities of England and Israel notwithstanding.

    The mixture of shock and empathy the artist conveys, seems to stand in the - in our times almost impossible - tradition of artists like Weegee and Helen Levitt. With Yaron Lapid, we do not have the feeling of following a reporter on hunt for shock, but to witness chance encounters, the artist happens to be in, and which he follows with a deep curiosity for the human nature. The same interest lets him follow traces of storylines in a village founded in the 50's in Israel, or to record radical text lines of flyers found in South-East London.

    We are most happy to host this evening with Yaron Lapid in person at Petersburger Platz 2, Berlin-Friedrichshain, on Thursday, 29 April 2010, at 21:00. You are very welcome to join us!

    Artist Link: http://finderandkeeper.co.uk/
    Program Details: http://richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesYLapid.html
    Directors Lounge: http://www.directorslounge.net

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  • Le Petit Versailles 2010 season opening

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    Le Petit Versailles 2010 season opening
    Saturday May 1st
    Le Petit Versailles, 346 East Houston Street, New York

    Please join us at Le Petit Versailles May 1 an all day celebration highlighting the range of arts that LPV garden will present throughout its 2010 May – October season

    2:00pm
    - International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day 2010
    On May 1, guerrilla gardeners around the world sow sunflowers all over the place. It’s a way to bring beauty, bumble bees and bundles of fun to your neighborhood.

    6:30pm
    - “Pistol” Pete Sturman – local singer/songwriter.

    7:30pm
    - Ongoing screening of House of the Gentle by Lili White.
    House of The Gentle interprets eight hexagrams from the classic text oracle of the I Ching, or Chinese Book of Changes, thru gestural performances set in Nature, Chaco Canyon, and Shofuso, the Japanese House & Garden in Philadelphia.
    Lili White performs in Nature’s stage set; her form suggests a bodily connection to a dream logic—that is no logic—no answers posited to –?–— What was the question?
    The form derived from authentic movement, a technique of improvisational movement practice that allows its participants a type of free association of the body, started by Mary Starks Whitehouse in the 1950s as “movement in depth”. Perception was the ultimate theme…
    Regarding the East’s treatment of landscape:
    “…Nature as a reflection of consciousness: eschewing traditional Western schemes of landscape as monumental & eternal…the East’s (view is) the notion of landscape as ephemeral form and infinite process, like Chinese landscapes (that) achieve a dynamism to suggest something numinous and wonderous beyond eternal form.” – taken from a museum comment card.
    The I Ching is a “reflection of the universe in miniature.” Its hexagrams represent descriptions of certain states or processes, using the essences found in Nature as the basis for its descriptions. There are a total of sixty-four different yet archetypal forms of energy described. The “gentle” refers to wood or the wind, both are gentle yet penetrating powers.

    - Installation of the luminous painting Versailles in the Sky by Sabine Mohr detailing an aerial view plan of the real Versailles of France.

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  • 3 Remakes Inéditos + 1 - Antoni Pinent

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    Film Quartet/Polyframe (Antoni Pinent, 2006-2008)3 Remakes Inéditos + 1 - Antoni Pinent
    April 29th, 21:30h, 4€
    La Enana Marrón, Travesía de San Mateo, 8, Madrid

    - Film Quartet/Polyframe (Antoni Pinent, 2006-2008. España, 9min, 35 mm.)
    Pequeña bomba artesanal metacinematográfica que atenta contra el concepto del fotograma como partícula mínima de tiempo [cinematográfico], dinamitándolo en 4 fragmentos. Destrucción (léase deconstrucción) de la tradicional teoría del montaje métrico de Peter Kubelka y la esencia de los entres de los fotogramas, todo ello con el propósito de dar paso a un nuevo capítulo cinematográfico, todavía por evolucionar.
    También se propone con esta pieza subir un peldaño más en el subgénero del found footage film o material reciclado, donde para ésta se apropia –aparte de Hollywood (Cantando bajo la lluvia, [Singin’in the rain, Stanley Donen y Gene Kelly, 1952], Pink Panther, Buster Keaton, etc.)- de material del período de las primeras vanguardias (Un perro andaluz, [Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel y Salvador Dalí, 1929]) y del experimental americano (Wavelength, Michael Snow, 1966-1967). Manteniendo así una ecología de la imagen-sonido a la vez que analiza la propia historia del cine, con algún toque de humor.
    El artefacto explosivo está inscrito en pentagramas musicales, a modo de notación cinematográfica, para que se pueda interpretar y desarrollar más allá de su proyección, estallando-destruyendo-construyendo en demás lugares cinematográficamente estancos.

    Pieza que conmemora el 50 aniversario de A Movie (1958) de Bruce Conner (1933-2008).

    - 2∞1: A Space Cut (Antoni Pinent, 2005-2007. España, 8min, súper 8. Proyección en vídeo)
    - 2∞1: A Space Cut (Antoni Pinent, 2009-2010. España, 40min, 35mm)
    El concepto de infinito en esta obra-ensayo está contemplado como la unión entre corte y corte, considerando que la infinidad de elementos y azares que hay entre plano y plano es inabarcable. Un plano contiene un tiempo delimitado así como un espacio definido de acción y campo, mientras que la intersección es algo que se nos escapa por su gran magnitud, algo que no queda delimitado. Otro punto, y no menos relevante, es que hay que recordar que esta película contiene la elipsis más grande de la historia del cine, 4 millones de años, resuelto por corte: de un hueso en caída libre saltamos a una nave espacial. Un corte que ha marcado un punto de inflexión en la historia del cine y sobre todo de la elipsis.

    - Kinosturm Kubelka/16 variaciones (Antoni Pinent, 2009. España. 2min, 35 mm.)
    El origen de esta obra parte del film métrico clásico Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka, 1958-60, Austria, 6’24” [9.216 fotogramas], b/n, sonora, 35 mm). En el que se aplica la técnica del film quartet, es decir considerar como partícula mínima de tiempo-físico la perforación, una cuarta parte del fotograma de 35mm (cada 24 fotogramas forma un segundo de tiempo).
    Pasamos de 9.216 fotogramas (384” = 6’24”) del original a 2.304 fotogramas (96” = 1’36”) en la nueva versión.Toda la película previamente está transferida a partitura, que es la base para la notación cinematográfica vinculada con esta técnica.La película, con la colaboración del azar, contiene en sí misma 16 variaciones o 16 maneras distintas de ser proyectada, con lo cual serían 16 versiones distintas de la misma.

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  • ATA: Stereo Sound and Vision

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    Stereo Sound and Vision
    April 24th, 2010 8:30pm, $7.77
    ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco

    A night of independent stereoscopic productions, featuring several innovative alternative stereoscopic techniques plus live music.

    Kerry Laitala & Eats Tapes + Pad Mclaughlin + Hologlypihcs

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    Sábado, Abril 24, 2010 - 20:30

  • ATA: Stereo Sound and Vision

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    Stereo Sound and Vision
    April 24th, 2010 8:30pm, $7.77
    ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco

    A night of independent stereoscopic productions, featuring several innovative alternative stereoscopic techniques plus live music.

    Kerry Laitala & Eats Tapes + Pad Mclaughlin + Hologlypihcs

    Kerry Laitala, maker behind The Muse of Cinema brings an extraordinary new dimension to our microcinema screen...that is, of DEPTH! This true Frisco original has seized upon a retinal quirk, the ChromaDepth Effect, and gleefully exploited the phenomenon with a delirious dose of Kodachrome. This stereoscopic spectacular is accompanied by the electronic hues of phonic faves Eats Tapes. Preceding the Chromatic Cocktail serving is the high craft of 3-D vets Pad McLaughlin and Bob Bloomberg, with Pad's own debut Strata, Bob's Day of the Dead ethnographic, and a 3-wall in-depth immersion! In the Landing Area, Hologlyphics will be showing Stereoscopic video synthesis without 3D glasses, along to live music. Infinite views are available from multiple perspectives. All Hologlyphic imagery is generated in real-time and interactive.

    http://www.othercinema.com

    http://www.hologlyphics.com

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  • Close-Up: Under/Over - Part 3/3

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    Close-Up: Under/Over - Part 3/3
    Tuesday April 27th, Time: 8pm, Doors open at 7.45pm
    Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB
    Ticket: £5/£3 to Close-Up members
    Presented by Close-Up and Transidency

     

    This season of films have been curated in conjunction with the Artist’s collective, Transidency, whose latest show entitled Under/Over runs at the FOLD Gallery during April 2010.

     

    The programme aims to complement the themes investigated in Under/Over, as well as to draw out the comparisons between the films themselves which collectively act as a body of enquiry into those same themes which include; [self & enforced] mythologising, ridiculous labour, over work/under work and the in-between, an ongoing investigation into the deceptive quality of the Earth’s iconography and the spaces of war.

     

    bas-jan-ader-fall01.jpg Bas Jan Ader film and video works:
    - Fall 1 (1970, 1 min)
    - Fall 2 (1970, 1 min)
    - I’m Too Sad To Tell You (1971, 3'34 mins)
    - Broken Fall [geometric] (1971, 1'49 min)
    - Broken Fall [organic] (1971, 1'44 min)
    - Nightfall (1971, 4 mins)
    - Primary Time (1974, 25'48 mins)
    here-is-always-somewhere-else01.jpg Here Is Always Somewhere Else - The Disapearance Of Bas Jan Ader
    Rene Daalder
    US, 2008, 78 mins, Colour, DV

     

    Critically acclaimed documentary about enigmatic Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975), whose daring conceptual performances culminated in his mysterious disappearance at sea. As recounted through the eyes of fellow emigrant Rene Daalder, Ader’s story becomes a sweeping overview of contemporary art as well as an epic saga of the transformative powers of the ocean. Featuring work from artists Tacita Dean, Rodney Graham, Marcel Broodthaers, Ger van Elk, Charles Ray, Wim T. Schippers, Chris Burden, Fiona Tan, Pipilotti Rist

    For more information visit: http://www.hereisalwayssomewhereelse.com

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