CCJ is pleased to co-present with Lightbox Film Center three screening programs under the Japanese Experimental Animation project, curated by Go Hirasawa (2/19), Julian Ross (2/25), and Fusako Matsu (2/11). The final screening curated by Julian Ross features graphic designer Keiichi Tanaami, whose collection has been a focus of our research since 2018. The screening will include new digitizations of Tanaami’s She (1971) and Look at the Wood (1975), as well as Human Events (Ningen Moyō, 1975), which CCJ preserved in 2018. In the screening program, Ross places Tanaami’s works in conversation with contemporary works.
Abstracting the Everyday highlights the vibrant personal visions of eight female members of the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative (est. 1961). Departing from a realist, objective conception of the world, these artists implemented radical new techniques on 16mm to plumb the depths of human consciousness. Sometimes ecstatic, sometimes haunting, the end result is a fascinating glimpse of the interior worlds of some of the most innovative experimental filmmakers of the 20th century.
Everyday life. Actions performed in passing, words uttered automatically, to which we do not attach importance. Performed and uttered constantly, over and over again... so many everyday rituals escape us— repeated countless times, known by heart, they no longer surprise, they become invisible.
On February 19 and 20, Dmitry Frolov's retrospective will take place in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Irkutsk and Tyumen, opening a large cycle of screenings of unknown parallel cinema.
A big conversation between Ira Dmitrieva and Gleb Segeda with a director who embodied the ideas and dreams of poets, expressionists, symbolists, mystics and futurists on Soviet film — https://seance.ru/articles/dmitry-frolov
Fechas:
De Sábado, Febrero 19, 2022 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Febrero 20, 2022 (Todo el día)
SEA Foundation is looking for One Minute digital moving image submissions by artists and visual storytellers on the theme of happiness. What does happiness look like and what power does it hold? Is it something personal or rather collective? Can happiness be integrated into future politics or in sustainability for example? Can happiness make you unhappy?
This open call is for artists and filmmakers who reinvent and explore new approaches regarding the concept of Happiness.
This Radiant World: Recent and Retrospective Experimental Films is a four-program series of exceptional experimental films from the last few years, complemented by several newly restored and preserved retrospective works. Many of the films comment directly or indirectly on the anxieties and uncertainty of the past two years; others serve as joyful and playful counterpoints. Together, they demonstrate the continuing richness of experimental cinema, the history of which is exemplified by this selection of lesser-known works that are overdue for rediscovery and reappraisal.
EFEA is a community-led film festival taking place in May 2022 in the heart of East Anglia. The festival will showcase the very best experimental moving-image works from the region as well as internationally. We are looking for works that actively subvert cinematic conventions and use filmic language to abstractly delve into the many realms of human experience.
