Join us on February 24, 2024, at 3 pm ET for an exclusive digital screening of Eco-Art Experimental Films and Videos at Deering Estate Visitor Center Auditorium. Admission is free with Eventbrite registration. Please save the date for these diverse and challenging artist-crafted films and videos that intertwine the concern for nature and our relation to it expressed within the possibilities of experimental cinema.
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.
Repeated Apparitions is a programme of screenings, performances and events that muse over repetitive cycles of oppression and their social invisibility and normalisation. Through a shared exploration of radical images, wild experimental sounds and evocative texts, the programme looks at how repetition can be used to create processes of reparation and renewal, disrupt the past and imagine new realities.
From appropriation of dominant cinematic archives, to critical scrutiny of film techniques, the 12 modern and contemporary artists' works presented in this program exemplify an alternative and highly self-reflective form of cinema. Following Erika Balsom’s understanding of contemporary art as a potential “laboratory for film, a place in which its social, technological and aesthetic history can be picked over and recycled,” they reconsider what cinema is (or was) and what it can do. With an emphasis on the ideology behind the operation of filmic apparatus and the technological externalization of memory and time, the works in this program expose critical and aesthetic potentials of “an other cinema,” oscillating between white cube and black box.
Fechas:
De Lunes, Septiembre 6, 2021 (Todo el día) hasta Lunes, Septiembre 20, 2021 (Todo el día)
Films by makers from different backgrounds, countries, homelands and nations. Films which assert identity and presence in the face of—and regardless of—colonial histories and outdated traditions of anthropology and ethnography. Films which make space for poetry, for beauty, for movement between cosmological and visceral worlds, sometimes blurring the lines between both. These filmmakers claim what was always theirs and celebrate what was never lost.
Fechas:
De Viernes, Abril 16, 2021 (Todo el día) hasta Sábado, Mayo 15, 2021 (Todo el día)
For LSFF 2021’s Platform showcase, we’re excited to screen the hallucinatory, kaleidoscopic works of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.
Since forming in Tehuacán, Mexico in 2011, the collective have anonymously produced and disseminated over 300 audio-visual works, spanning form from essay films, found-footage reconstruction, feverish shamanistic incantations and charged acts of political resistance.
Cuando una imagen es vista, comienza su descomposición. Cuando una historia es narrada, se transforma en conversación. Para Colectivo los Ingrávidos, esta desaparición gradual del proceso de transmisión es un espacio de escucha compartida, donde la poesía se convierte en una forma de historiografía autónoma.
