Regarded for decades as one of the monumental and iconic works of the historical American avant-garde, Stan Brakhage’s five-part Dog Star Man remains a defining and radically original work of independent cinema. Utilizing numerous inventive filmmaking techniques ranging from distortion lenses, multiple superimpositions, hyperkinetic editing, hand-painting, and even the physical collaging of materials onto the film strip, Dog Star Man employs a vividly subjective, hypnagogic vision following a mythic man’s ascent and struggle through the obstacles and vicissitudes of existence. Images of birth, death, nature, the cosmos, and the psyche gradually combine and coalesce over the course of the film’s 74 minutes with increasing intensity and complexity, resulting in a total cinematic experience that remains unique nearly sixty years after its initial making.
Diorama Room Arts is accepting short films/videos, from around the world, that focus on a dialogue between humans and nature, for its seventh Tune in to Green online exhibition. The exhibition will be available for rent at Vimeo On Demand.
The theme for this show is Summer, tropics, freedom, beaches, fish, water, or nature in general. Novices, Semi-Pros, and Pros are all welcome to apply. Experimental and Documentary short films/videos considered.
LaborBerlin is pleased to present a programme with films by members of our fellow filmlab Harkat Lab from Mumbai. Harkat Lab was founded three years ago as part of Harkat Studios, a production company who turn their space into an off-space on several evenings a week, showing a diverse program of theater plays and concerts. Based on this existing community, Harkat Lab have evolved over the past three years in terms of personnel, technology and space, and established international connections.
In mathematics and abstract algebra, a relation algebra is a residuated Boolean algebra expanded with an involution called converse, a unary operation. On par, World Cinema Carnival wishes to explore the other faces of ideocracy through interrelationships between humans. In this paralyzed motion of Ideocracy defines " the governance of a state according to the principles of no particular ideology; where a state or country can govern in no particular way".
