Close-Up pays tribute to Kenneth Anger with a screening of the Magick Lantern Cycle. Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon book, Kenneth Anger was a unique figure in post-war American culture. His iconic short films are characterised by a mystical-symbolic visual language and phantasmagorical-sensual opulence that underscores the medium’s transgressive potential. Anger’s work fundamentally shaped the aesthetics of 1960s and 1970s subcultures, the visual lexicon of pop and music videos and queer iconography.
Chris H Lynn will present a collection of new super 8 films from his Journal of Drifting Hours series on 7/1/23 at UNZA Lab.
Films include: Snow and the Atlantic; In December; The owl, the moon, and a boat in the forest
Journal of Drifting Hours Series :Drifting moments, lyrical passages, memory impulses, landscape studies and visual notations captured on super 8 film.
Wenhua Shi pursues a poetic approach to moving image making, and investigates conceptual depth in film, video, interactive installations and sound sculptures. His work has been presented at museums, galleries, and film festivals, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, European Media Art Festival, Athens Film and Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, West Bund 2013: a Biennale of Architecture and Contemporary art, Shanghai, Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism, and the Arsenale of Venice in Italy.
Este programa presenta un intento contemporáneo de hacer dos películas de una, emprendido por dos cineastas, Ben Russell y Ben Rivers, que exploran una práctica poco común. No existe un precedente exacto de la(s) película(s) que realizaron juntos en la isla de Tanna (que forma parte de Vanuatu, un archipiélago en Melanesia). Pero un posible precedente podría ubicarse en dos películas neoyorquinas de Stan Brakhage y Joseph Cornell, un par que puede servir como prólogo del experimento de Rivers y Russell.
Archivo Shub is made up of two programs of short films that present the born traces from individual and collective creation in film laboratories and workshops; fragile and imperfect, they reveal their status as artisanal and processual cinema. This curation invites you to experience a compost cinema, which recycles images and sounds turned into waste to formulate new powers of life from the territory today called Colombia.
